So it’s like the title says. I created this community to kinda fill the void from the reddit shutdown, and have no real idea on how to moderate a community like this, especially if it ends up huge like the one on Reddit.

Seeing as I have little moderation experience, if anyone is interested in moderating for this community just lmk and I’ll see about setting you up.

TL;DR - Created a potentially huge amount of work for myself that I’m super unfamiliar with.

  • Barack Ollama
    11•2 years ago

    I just did the same thing for Best Updates (BORU replacement) only to find out that Lemmy post bodies can’t be longer than 10k characters (BORU posts are frequently over that). I’m not sure how best to proceed :/

    • @kadu
      9•2 years ago

      Oh wow, I didn’t know of this limitation.

      We could open an issue on GitHub proposing a change. In the meantime, you could add to your sidebar suggesting users paste text larger than 10k into Pastebin or another equivalent website and create the post as a link, rather than filling the body.

      Ideally, apps like Jerboa could have built in parsers to load text from Pastebin, images from Imgur, and so on, in elegant integrated ways which could mitigate limitations with Lemmy itself.

      • Barack Ollama
        7•2 years ago

        It looks like there’s already an issue open on GitHub (though I’m no expert, so correct me if this isn’t an enhancement request)

        That’s a good idea about using a 3rd party site! I’ve never heard of pastebin, but I’ll look it up now :) Thanks!!

    • timkmz
      1•2 years ago

      Talk to ruud the developer of lemmy.world would be my guess. Or the developer of whatever instance your using. And btw can you link the community?