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The title, really.

On Reddit, I was one of the ubiquitous lurkers. I'd like to maybe participate a little more on Lemmy, now that I'm here. I might even like to start a community, but I'm concerned about what kind of a commitment I might be getting myself into. I really have quite enough BS in my life without inviting more.

I'd be grateful for any advice, experience, or warnings folks might have. Thanks, and have a good one!

Edit: Thanks everyone for your responses! Maybe I will try my hand at a community or two!

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[โ€“] bacteriostat@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I also have a lot of questions regarding how same communities on different servers would look like. There are already 2 c/technology communities. Are they totally seprate or the data is synced between the two?

[โ€“] gun@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If they are both on different instances, then they are separate communities which allows for different moderation rules. That means no mods can monopolize a simple community name like technology. It would be cool if there was a way to sync them though.

[โ€“] Ada@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@gun There is talk of allowing user to group multiple communities together in to a sort of virtual community.

@Poot @bacteriostat

[โ€“] Kichae@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I'd like to see. Small communities coming together to create a bigger whole. And then groups being able to splinter off again if they feel the need.

[โ€“] Ada@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Kichae As I understand it, the proposal is basically just an interface thing at the user level. So a user can choose to display multiple technology groups from different instances together.

@Poot @bacteriostat @gun

[โ€“] knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this would be the best way. having then separate is a fundamental thing of the federation. being able to visually put them together should be on the user level.

there should be a clear notice for which comm your new posts default to. likely the instance you're actually on, but it's possible that you don't even want to join the comm for your own instance

[โ€“] bacteriostat@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, infact sync would make the moderation system useless. I think there is going to be both advantages and disadvantages with this approach. One big disadvantage is differentiating the communities because users would be expected to check the server name.

[โ€“] gibandaley@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

It would be nice to eventually have functionality like multireddit where we could individually in our own accounts combine communities from different instances into a single (specific just to our own account) community.

[โ€“] LimitedBrain@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay I wouldn't say useless. For instance, say that a user posts a comment that breaks one servers rules but not the other. Then it would be banned only on the server whose rules it broke. If it was a user of that server, they'd be warned or banned. If not, it's still possible to ban that users posts from showing up on a synced instance. Still, wouldn't recommend it.

[โ€“] bacteriostat@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, maybe not completely useless.

[โ€“] gun@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

That's not what I'm talking about though. Another user mentioned multireddits. If there are multiple technology communities on different instances you might want to subscribe to content from all of them with a single action, even if the content is moderated separately in each of them.

[โ€“] nachtigall@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yes totally separate