Asklemmy

43810 readers

1 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

If you create a sub on Lemmy, are you responsible for its moderation? If so, how much of a pain is that, really? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Poot@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (9 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.

[–] bacteriostat@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago (4 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.

[–] LimitedBrain@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years 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.

[–] bacteriostat@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, maybe not completely useless.

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (6 replies)