There are plenty of subreddits I left behind that I would like to see migrated to lemmy instances.

What do ya’ll think about creating the communities I want to be migrated and, this is the part I don’t feel great about, whole-sale copying the existing configuration of the communities i.e. all the side-bar content (rules, wikis, etc.)?

On the one hand, it seems like a good way to create continuity for users but on the other hand, it feels like stealing. Also, I am not necessarily the person who should be running these communities. I just want to create the spaces for people to move into and hand them off to those who want to run them and contribute content.

What do ya’ll think? How have you been approaching a migration from your favorite subreddits to your instance communities?

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    You could potentially contact the folks running the communities on Reddit (especially if you don’t want to / feel you shouldn’t be the one running them on Lemmy) and ask how they feel about it - either them creating the community here, or you creating it here with their blessing / potentially involvement.

    • headie_sage@fanaticus.socialOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I think that’s a great idea! I reached out to the moderators using the “contact the moderators” button in the sidebar on one of my favorite reddit communities but never got a response. I’m not sure if anyone read it or if Reddit just made it go away.

      I don’t want to spam a bunch of individual users so I might try discord.

      • Bastard_ErasmusEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I’ve got the same issue as you. My current approach is first educating myself on how to set it up. Then contacting the mods via modmail. Should they not answer I’d make a post in the sub with my offer to set it up and then transferring the mods to the old team.

        If the community accepts the transfer is on a whole different page. Lots of comments I read might use this opportunity to quit social media for good. Some communities had great value to me, I hope they’ll further exist and ideally over here.

        I don’t see too big of a problem in copying and referencing to a preexisting community wiki.

  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure thats the best way to go about it, Lemmy functions quite a bit differently from reddit and I’m not sure communities will easily port over in the exact same configuration.

    I don’t think its all necessarily stealing, but I would refer back to the reddit community somewhere in the sidebar so people are aware that the community has been ported.

    • headie_sage@fanaticus.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Interesting, what pieces of the community configuration do you think won’t port over nicely? I’m not disagreeing that Lemmy functions differently from Reddit – just getting to the point where I could make a post was enough to prove that 😆 – but I hadn’t considered things like the subreddit rules wouldn’t port over 1:1.

      Now that you mention it though, does Lemmy even support community wikis?

        • headie_sage@fanaticus.socialOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oof. Well I suppose the instance owners could create another wiki app on the subdomain (there are plenty to choose from) but I’d imagine it’d be a pain to deal with auth and permissions (e.g. who gets to edit the wiki).