Hello everyone,
There has been a lot of new traffic to Lemmy in the past few weeks due to the turmoil at Reddit. A lot of you may be Reddit refugees, like I am, and are missing their old favorite subs right about now.
I think it’s more important than ever for regular users to step up and take an active role in rebuilding their communities, and I wasn’t sure that things would ever get going unless somebody stepped up to the plate and made the effort, and I didn’t want to wait around for someone else to take the initiative when I already had a strong desire to see this sort of content brought over to Lemmy.
Now that the first step has been taken, I’m inviting others who might be interested in building or managing this community to join me in making this the best version of asksciencefiction possible.
I have never been affiliated with /r/asksciencefiction or even been a moderator at reddit before. Preferably, I would like to hand off ownership of this community to somebody who has a strong desire to build and grow the community and enforce the rules. If that sounds like something you are interested in, please don’t hesitate to send me a private message.
Thank you!
It might help to have some actual rules in this place.
But you could try asking the mods over at /r/AskScienceFiction to see if they would be interested in taking over.
To be honest, I only found this place because I was wondering if someone had made one over at startrek.website. Some more content might also help things.
I don’t mind volunteering, but I’ve not been a moderator on Reddit or Lemmy before, just on FB and Discord a few times.
I certainly could update the sidebar with some clearer instructions on how to participate, that’s for sure. I’ve been taking a very laissez faire approach to the situation in regards to establishing rules, at least initially. I know that not everybody was fond of the sometimes overly strict rules at the reddit version in regards to the Watsonian/Doylist perspective, and I don’t want to shut out anyone’s voice before they’ve even had a chance to weigh in on it.
I will plan to update the community description sometime this afternoon. I’ll take some excerpts from the subreddit if I am able to. Appreciate the feedback.
Looking good so far. I volunteer to be made mod. This is me: https://www.reddit.com/user/mathiastck
I moderated some small sub reddits on Reddit, the largest is https://www.reddit.com/r/propublica/ with 1k members. Basically I used to want a place on Reddit to share things I found elsewhere, most Twitter, and a lot of it was news articles, so I looked for the subreddits related to those news sources. They were frequently closed or abandoned, so I used Reddits process to request an orphan sub, and got them reopened.
I’ve been reading Sci Fi for 30 years, I got into Heinlein as a teenage boy, and tried making a Starship Troopers GIFS subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/doingmypart/ but I ended up just using it as my default resharing targert when someone does or does not do a thing.
I’m moving to posting those kinds of posts here now on Lemmy: https://lemmy.world/c/doingmypart
On Reddit my sci fi related stuff also went to: https://www.reddit.com/r/BioOfASpaceTyrant/ It’s a bit focused on 40k quotes. I’m playing the Horus Heresy Legions mobile CCG: https://www.horusheresylegions.com/ and I have been devouring the audio and epub 40k/30k books from Humble Bundle, I just bought the current one: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/chronicles-world-warhammer-black-library-books
I am excited about Netflix’s 3 Body Problem adaptation, I love the book, I’m caught up and enjoying latest trek, and I try to read each new releae from Neal Stephenson
https://twitter.com/nealstephenson
Honestly I keep referencing his last 2 books when I try to explain what people are missing about where social is / where it is going. His old stuff was also prescient.