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I was disappointed to see how much hate the mods were getting for taking a stand. Most of it was from people posting. The comment sections were mostly rebuking OP. Most people were saying things like “yeah, lord of the rings is TOTALY about bending the knee to fa face less power /s”.
Image Transcription: Meme
[‘Cast it into the fire’ - a three panel meme featuring Isildur and Elrond from the Lord of the Rings. In the first panel, Isildur’s hand is shown holding the ring between his fingers. In the second, Elrond speaks to him with an expression of distress and desperation, and the third panel shows Isildur responding with a smirk. The words “!starwarsmemes” (star wars memes) has been placed over Elrond’s forehead in the second panel, and the words “r/lotrmemes” (lord of the rings memes) is written above Isildur’s forehead in the third panel. The large text “reddit” in the first panel is placed on top of the ring itself]
Reddit
Throw it into the fire
No
^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
It means a lot to see our transcription brethren out here in the fediverse. o7
I’m honoured to continue to serve o7
Accessibility should be a requirement, not a luxury
Hello there! You are strong and wise.
Star Wars Memes: “No, thank you! We don’t want any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations!”
Lord of the Memes: (!lotrmemes@midwest.social) “And what about very old friends?”
Star Wars Memes: (clicks link) “Gandalf?”YTMND… now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time.
It really sucks cause that was one of my favorite meme subs.
Yeah I feel like the quality over there of late was pretty good. Haven’t been to Reddit since mid June tho so idk what’s goin on over der atm
I thought I saw a lotr or other meme community here?
Well, it’s not like that’s stopping anyone from spinning up one here.
This community has no affiliation with any of the Reddit subs either. In fact I had pinged mods of all four star wars meme Reddit subs about moving to Lemmy, and neither has even responded.
Maybe the admins went all Trade Federation and disrupted all communications.
That was even before the blockade.
Lord of the memes
!lotrmemes@midwest.social
https://lemmy.world/c/lotrmemes@midwest.socialGlad to see it growing. Made it a week before the blackout to have it ready and now the ball is rolling and it’s getting a bunch of users
Hmm seems to be an empty community for me?
I think it depends on when your Lemmy server/instance first discovered it. In other words, I don’t believe a Lemmy server will show posts from a community on another server from before someone searched for “!community@other-server.com” from your Lemmy instance for the first time.
I think. I’m no Lemmy expert.Try https://midwest.social/c/lotrmemes and you should see content.
Is this necessary on Kbin? On Lemmy, if someone links to an instance, you can just click the latter part of the link to automatically use your own instance.
Meme of the day :)
Great meme kid, now don’t get cocky
Damn. Maybe we should get the high ground fist…
Light the beacons!
shakes fist at ground
What if we take the high grond instead?
I feel the same way about r/mylittlepony.
I feel the same way about r/noncredibledefense and r/skyrimmods.
!noncredibledefense@lemmy.world
!non_credible_defense@lemmy.ml
!noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
!NonCredibleDefense@kbin.social
And I still don’t understand what it even means.
Aw, them too?
Though it’s been kind of peculiar seeing people discussing whether a subreddit is “officially” moving to some place other than Reddit, because aside from a few subreddits where there’s clear corporate backing there’s nothing “official” about any of them in the first place. The only people who claim to be making some kind of “official” decision are a couple of mods, and ironically Reddit’s fundamental position in this whole mess is that mods are easily replaceable.
I would dispute that “easily” part, especially for good mods, but it’s not like the creation of each domain-specific subreddit was some unique event that can never be replicated elsewhere. There are bronies here in the Fediverse. There’s !mylittlepony@kbin.social, !mylittlepony@lemmy.ml, !mlp@pawb.social, probably others I haven’t bumped into yet. They’re all small but they could grow.
Though it’s been kind of peculiar seeing people discussing whether a subreddit is “officially” moving to some place other than Reddit, because aside from a few subreddits where there’s clear corporate backing there’s nothing “official” about any of them in the first place. The only people who claim to be making some kind of “official” decision are a couple of mods, and ironically Reddit’s fundamental position in this whole mess is that mods are easily replaceable.
The most official sense you get from the average community is that it is “this group of people” and if you convince enough of them to move, you’ve relocated ‘officially’ - in most settings, I don’t think that the mods have that sort of relationship with the community members, that they can just announce a move and the move has happened. Instead, you need to coax people to the other site and persuade them to migrate over, and if you manage to move enough of them over then the previous community has “officially” moved - even if their old location still exists and there are still people there and maybe even a community reforming without the previous group.
Community migration I think is something that needs to be done protracted and over time, rather than in one big collective leap.
I would dispute that “easily” part, especially for good mods, but it’s not like the creation of each domain-specific subreddit was some unique event that can never be replicated elsewhere.
In the fediverse, I think it really come down to which Named communities can grow the most in the near future; people go where other people are, so the easily accessible names and largest communities are going to see the easiest adoption by new users interested in that topic.
In the fediverse, I think it really come down to which Named communities can grow the most in the near future; people go where other people are, so the easily accessible names and largest communities are going to see the easiest adoption by new users interested in that topic.
There’s been a fair bit of discussion on how to implement “multireddits” in Kbin and Lemmy (Lemmy issue, Kbin issue) and depending how that shakes out it might make even that less of a problem. I could group all those MLP groups together and view them all as a unified interface.
I think that outcome has strong up- and down-sides.
In one sense, it allows someone to consume a collection of different-focused communities grouped around a topic, and allows each community to specialize better within it’s “own” scope.
The flip side of that though is if that is excessive frontloaded as a default experience, or a recommended one, you wind up in a situation where none of those sub-communities matter as something unique to themselves. They’re all just relatively interchangeable sources of content for the multi-magazine clustered around a topic.
When multireddits first launched and there was big enthusiasm for them on Reddit, there was a specific user who was forever trying to put together collections of spinoff “high quality” subs and package them as this sort of “true old-school reddit experience” - but what that resulted in was huge numbers of discussion subs becoming generically similar, because that one user was pushing the entire collective as this big homogenous “better reddit” experience and users entering the space via the multireddit engaged with the listing in that exact fashion. Then when those subs’ own communities got fed up with the newcomers and went and created their own space, Our Helpful Friend would add the new community to their list.
Moderating in that space was incredibly frustrating, because both newcomers and the user spearheading this were diametrically opposed to the need for moderation - despite wanting an experience IMO is only available in highly moderated spaces, they all firmly believed that the community style they wanted was possible without moderation, if everyone just worked together and played nice. So you tell someone that their post doesn’t meet standards, and they get upset that standards apply to them, cite the rules in some other community, or from Our Helpful Friend’s values statement, or whatever they were using - not understanding that we had not signed on to their project and unwilling to respect that we have our own rules and would not be changing them.
So yeah. Both great feature and annoying feature, and I do vaguely worry that the prevalence of parallel and overlap communities across the Fediverse does risk that multi-mag function doing a little community erasure if it’s not implemented carefully and gracefully.
