Hello, this community exists because !amitheasshole@lemmy.ml is deleted by creator, thus effectively abandoned by the creator. My problem is that there is already one in lemmy.world called !aita@lemmy.world. So AITA for keeping this community open, while the subscribers are wondering why there isn’t any activity here?
NTA.
A community existing on a separate independent instance shouldn’t be a factor in deciding if an aita community exists on this instance. Even though !aita@lemmy.world will have more traffic, this community should still probably exist because a local lemmy.ml option isn’t a bad thing, and we’d have an established alternative should we ever need to defederate lemmy.world for whatever reason.
YTA for setting the community language settings to disallow specifying English as an option though 😜
YTA for setting the community language settings to disallow specifying English as an option though
Can you explain what you mean with this? I don’t understand it.
When submitting, you can specify the language your post or comment is in.
Communities can set which languages they accept posts in. This community currently only accepts “Undetermined” as an option so I can’t state my reply is written in English. Other users can use this tag to filter out languages they don’t read, allow them to know what language they need to translate from, or possibly help accessibility tools read comments correctly to people that need assistive technologies like screen-readers, etc.
I haven’t moderated a community on Lemmy to know exactly where/how the settings to configure this work, and it’s not a big deal either way to me personally, but it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to enable some options there.
So I should check for every community
EnglishandUndetermined?At the end of the day, you’re the moderator of this community, so it’s entirely up to you. I was really just being a bit of a smart-arse in my first comment.
If it were my decision, I’d probably just allow all the options, assuming it’s the same as the languages box in user settings. Users that aren’t aware of the language filtering are gonna be using Undetermined though, so it’s best to keep that one for community visibility.
NTA
#LemmyWorld is in Cloudflare’s access-restricted walled garden. It’s an asshole instance that not only excludes some people from access but it hoards people who are in the included group, creating a perversely centralized power imbalance that rewards elitists. To non-assholes, Lemmy World communities are parasitic because they rob the fedi of the decentralized balance it needs. To participate in Lemmy World communities is to either be uninformed/out of touch OR to be an informed asshole.
That said, lemmy.ml is not a great place either. At least it’s not excluding people on the basis of IP address, but it’s still disproportionately large and has a history of political baggage by admins who are very trigger-happy with the censor button. You could have chosen a better instance, like Sopuli, but then your sidebar acknowledges the apparent past existence of a Sopuli AITA community.
NTA for giving refuge from a destructive instance. If it were reversed, and you were to create a community on Lemmy World that already exists in the free world, it would be a YTA case. Poaching users from a bad instance is a good semaritan move.
How to fix this
Promote the most digital rights respecting venue in the sidebar, which is !amitheasshole@discuss.tchncs.de. Encourage cross-posts to and from discuss.tchncs.de. Make no mention of Lemmy World and other centralized nodes.
I would not normally post in lemmy.ml but thought this thread was worthy of an exception.
NTA
Just one question, can we shill use this community?
This is a backup in case the post gets deleted by creator or removed by mod:
Hello, this community exists because !amitheasshole@lemmy.ml is deleted by creator, thus effectively abandoned by the creator. My problem is that there is already one in lemmy.world called !aita@lemmy.world. So AITA for keeping this community open, while the subscribers are wondering why there isn’t any activity here?
