Am I the Asshole?

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I think !amitheasshole is deleted by creator.

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AITA for having this community open while there is already another community with much more activity? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, this community exists because [email protected] is deleted by creator, thus effectively abandoned by the creator. My problem is that there is already one in lemmy.world called [email protected]. So AITA for keeping this community open, while the subscribers are wondering why there isn't any activity here?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NTA.

A community existing on a separate independent instance shouldn't be a factor in deciding if an aita community exists on this instance. Even though [email protected] will have more traffic, this community should still probably exist because a local lemmy.ml option isn't a bad thing, and we'd have an established alternative should we ever need to defederate lemmy.world for whatever reason.

YTA for setting the community language settings to disallow specifying English as an option though 😜

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YTA for setting the community language settings to disallow specifying English as an option though

Can you explain what you mean with this? I don't understand it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When submitting, you can specify the language your post or comment is in.

Communities can set which languages they accept posts in. This community currently only accepts "Undetermined" as an option so I can't state my reply is written in English. Other users can use this tag to filter out languages they don't read, allow them to know what language they need to translate from, or possibly help accessibility tools read comments correctly to people that need assistive technologies like screen-readers, etc.

I haven't moderated a community on Lemmy to know exactly where/how the settings to configure this work, and it's not a big deal either way to me personally, but it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to enable some options there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I should check for every community English and Undetermined?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

At the end of the day, you're the moderator of this community, so it's entirely up to you. I was really just being a bit of a smart-arse in my first comment.

If it were my decision, I'd probably just allow all the options, assuming it's the same as the languages box in user settings. Users that aren't aware of the language filtering are gonna be using Undetermined though, so it's best to keep that one for community visibility.