I live in GMT-3, would like to help.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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thanks man
I'm not super experienced, but I'd be willing to give it a try and help out - if you feel Im not working out you can always demote me with no hard feelings :)
Sure, no problem! Added you
Happy to help. I've moderated some smaller niches on the former site that won't be named. I'm west coast and while I have my personal beliefs, I do try to seek wider input for knowledge and discussion.
I'm willing to help Mod here
Please add me as a moderator, I come from reddit and wish to be recruited
It looks to me like [email protected] is much more active than this community. Is there any benefit from the fragmentation? Why not close this one and redirect it?
I'm not sure about benefits besides potentially different moderation teams if either of them turns into a bit of a cesspool.
I clicked your link and it didn't lead me anywhere, however, and I have seen that many times if communities in other instances are not linked correctly, it will log you out when you go there if you're from lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc.
It's all a bit confusing with the instances and redundant communities, but I suppose the major difference would be that people tend to end up on their own instances community for whatever the topic is.
This worked for me: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
It took me a while to figure out but there are two link buttons under each post. One goes to the local copy and one goes to the hosting instance. That just seems like a UI issue needing tweaking.
Communities are more interesting if they reach a certain size where there are enough posters to cover the significant events in that topic. Reddit's r/news is huge and the smaller news subs are almost insignificant by comparison. Here, the fragmentation keeps everything small, I think that makes it harder to reproduce Reddit's success.
As it stands now, Beehaw has defederated from LemmyWorld, so interacting with their news community through this instance means we don't actually see the majority of the comments and posts. LemmyWorld users can still post and comment, but that content doesn't get federated to other, non-blocked instances because its only a copy of the "real" community. Fully admit though that I'm still learning Lemmy, so if my understanding of this is incorrect please correct me!
Personally, I would like like to see this news community grow. News is a general and broad enough topic that I think as Lemmy continues to grow, it can support multiple news focused communities. Even if the Beehaw news community continues to be considered "the" news community, there's room for additional options.
There's "room" for additional options in the sense that nobody is stopped from making them, but in reality, r/news was my one-stop news update place (all generally interesting news made it there) and it wasn't too big. For Lemmy to need multiple news communities, its main news community will have to become bigger than Reddit's. Of course I hope that happens, but it is nowhere near there yet.
That is weird about beehaw defederating and between that and a few other defederation stories I've seen, I start to think this federated discussion forum thing might not pan out all that well.
I’ll sign up for modding if spots are still available.
If you still need mods, I'm happy to assist.
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If your still looking I’d be happy to help.
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