Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn’t the thing that makes a social media site, it’s the engagement
So even if you’re used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!
If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they’re more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they’ll just go back to reddit
Question: If the equivalent Reddit subreddit doesn’t exist that we use, should we create it? Or wait for the moderators from Reddit to create it?
I’d say if you want a community, create it. Better yet, start your own instance and do it there. I doubt there’s ever going to be any orderly migration. If you want it, make it happen. That’s how the reddit mods did it to begin with
So today’s my first day on Lemmy. I still haven’t figured out how to create a group. Can you do it from the Jerboa app, from the instance website, or do you have to be a moderator on the website to have permission?
I’ve never used Jerboa, but yeah you probably need permission from the site owner to create a community. There’s a “Create Community” link in the header of my instance, looks like this:
Seems to me it makes sense to go ahead and create it. There’s no reason the mods on Reddit should necessarily be the mods anywhere else. They don’t own the subject under discussion, after all. They just happened to be the ones to start a subreddit or get invited to moderate by others.
There’s a real opportunity in being able to create your own community here. If there were problems or issues with a subreddit, whether it be mod problems, rule issues, general tone of the sub, etc, this is a chance to change that and make it right.
Create it, you can always add them as mods if they join and want to moderate here too.