I realize that lemmit.online is reviled for creating noise with high traffic subreddit reposts, but I want to supply another perspective. My city subreddit is one of the communities you've disabled already. It's a small city, with few subscribers on Reddit. There is no Lemmy community for my city, and no one even posts to the Lemmy community which exists for my state. So, no, I'm not going to create a Lemmy community to talk to myself. The loss of the lemmit.online community for my city means that I'll need to use Reddit, and if I'm going to be there anyway then I might as well just give up on Lemmy rather than have to use both.
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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No problem, as far as I'm concerned, all suspensions are negotiable. Which one was it? I'll re-enable it straight away.
Thanks. It's https://lemmit.online/c/Boise. IMHO The tiny subreddits with very few posts that don't cause front page Lemmy noise are the most important to retain, because Lemmy does not yet have the userbase to support its own niche communities.
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2023-10-07 17:23:54,906 - root - INFO - Community Boise is ENABLED, has 67 subscribers and 0 posts per day.
I understand your argument, and fully agree. There's over 800 communities that I have to check though, so mistakes will be made.
Totally understand, and thank you. I'm frustrated with the folks attacking lemmit.online, not you for providing the service. Much appreciated.
Will you be opening up requests in the future and will you be re-evaluating curring communities of are you happy with the communities being used currently?
While I personally liked having the bot, and wasn't bothered by it since I only browse subscribed communities, I understand the change :)
I had a question that I never got around to asking: Would it be possible to be added as a moderator of a Lemmit community?
I'm still involved with my university subreddit, and it's a fairly large one (/r/UBC). It would be great to have that content here so that users wouldn't have to go to Reddit for it. However, one worry I had was about removing content. It doesn't happen that often, but sometimes users do post personally identifying information or photos of other students (bullying / harassment), or link to harmful materials, etc. So the worry was that the bot would post the content here, and it would stick around even after being removed from Reddit.
Being added as a moderator to the lemmit community seemed like the easy solution. In the off chance that we need to remove content (ex. harmful, or when the original user requests the deletion), we could remove it directly. For communities that request something like that, it should be possible to verify that the request is valid through modmail or something.
Alternatively, the bot could be set up to check and remove content that has been removed from Reddit, but that might go against the archival principle and also consume significantly more resoures
Funnily enough, it initially was the intention to have the bot check up on everything it posted, to see if it got deleted. In that way, it would outsource moderation to Reddit. I never got around to that, and am not sure I ever will.
So for now, handing out moderation to others is a good workaround. ~~In order for me to make you a mod, you'll need to leave a comment in the community, and mention me @admin@lemmit.online.~~
Actually, checking out the subreddit in question, that's exactly the kind of content I want to avoid on here. Most of the posts on there are to invoke discussion, either with the OP or other members. You'd be better off starting a new community on your own instance.
Yes that's fair, so far we do have a community here and most users are likely using both Lemmy and Reddit. So I won't request /r/UBC unless there's a justifiable reason for it in the future. In the meantime we can probably repost the relevant content to the community.
Still that's good to know for other subreddits that would be more appropriate to have here
That makes sense, and it's totally understandable thank you :)
~~I'll check with the other mods, and I'll request / mention you if we decide to go for it :)~~