I want to add a community that is essentially the Lemmy version of an existing subreddit (r/mcmansionhell). Is this allowed?

  • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    I’ve seen at least six communities with the same or similar concepts/names as a subreddit, and at least a dozen posts around various communities encouraging any kind of post or engagement including new community creation. Be the content creator you want to see in the fediverse.

    • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      @notexecutive@sh.itjust.works

      WE’RE IN BABY!!!

      I turn around and some internet stranger opens up McMansionHell in a proper fresh new adorable place. Thank you.

    • SAPHIRA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      You can also post it on- new communities ,or one of those other thats similar so more people will see it

    • demvoter@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      I tried posting from Mastodon and it worked although the title didn’t come through quite right.

      • notexecutive@sh.itjust.worksOP
        1·
        2 years ago

        I saw I think <:3

        If you can change the title through lemmy, to have the “CityName, StateName - Tag” format, that would be really helpful!

    • lolpostslol@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Awesome. I see no issue with it… only thing I’d add is that it would probably be morally encouraged, when it comes to subs with creative/non-obvious concepts to 1) allow for the mods who created the original to mod here if they want and 2) stay true to the original idea of the sub. As a homage to the mods and users who fostered the original community.

        • lolpostslol@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          What I’ve seen some magazines do is simply have the magazine’s explanatory text say that “this is not the same team from r/whatever from reddit, if that’s you and you want to mod here just reach out” or something. Though I imagine that makes more sense if the sub stayed privated on reddit, if they’re still reddit mods and just gave into reddit pressure I’d just tell them to stay there…

  • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    There’s nothing wrong with that. Lemmy is it’s own thing, create whatever community you want based on whatever criteria you want. Just follow the rules your whatever instance you’re creating the community at.

  • JasSmith@kbin.social
    131·
    2 years ago

    Fuck yeah it is! Make as many subs as you want baby! This is the Wild West and we have blackjack and hookers! Make a McMansion magazine. Hell, make two!

  • melonpunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’ve seen it talked about a few times across different platforms (Hackernews) where people have pondered the idea of cloning old posts, keeping the poster name but to a non-existent account. Acting as both a way to populate a community and archive content away from Reddit’s control.

    I haven’t seen any examples of this done yet, not sure if anyone has.

    • Aquifel@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      It would be a bit of a project, but the most time-consuming part is already done. /r/datahoarder has a backup of reddit comment/post history that goes from the beginning of reddit up to March of 2023 (text only, no media). It’s compressed down to about 2TB in size, but already in json format and anyone can download it, would just need some work to convert that to a format a fediverse instance could work with and somehow inject it into a new instance.

      • ikiru
        2·
        2 years ago

        Do you mean they have a backup of comment and post history from /r/datahoarder or a backup of literally all reddit?

          • ikiru
            1·
            2 years ago

            Wow. That’s really impressive. I really enjoyed that sub.

            Also surprising it’s only 2TB.

            • ram@lemmy.ca
              2·
              2 years ago

              It’s JSON so it’s only text, and it’s compressed, but that’s still 1 trillion characters assuming it’s UTF-16. I’ve not actually taken a look myself at the data though, I just contributed to let my PC contribute to the project.