Hey all! Mod team of r/unixporn here. After a couple weeks of work on our end, we finally have a Lemmy community at LemmyWorld that we’re committing to moderating in the long run. Additionally, due to Lemmy’s federation, you should be able to crosspost between here and there even if you don’t have an account on LemmyWorld. Hope to see you there!
But we already had a unixporn community
Why are you moving instance? And why to an already packed instance?
What is the point to swap instances? We already have solid community in this instance. Why not just move your moderators in this instance?
Considering this user made an account on lemmy.ml to post this, and the community in world was made by the same user with a world account, maybe they don’t understand the federation aspect correctly. It seems to happen a lot, and it’s frustrating because it leads to one huge instance in lemmy.world.
Man and I thought linux users were supposed to be technical smh my head.
We have observed this instance over the last weeks, and came to the conclusion that it’s not a good fit for our community, as it’s often down and we don’t always agree with the administration on this instance.
how silly lol
Please just use this already-present community unless you have a good reason to fragment the group
There’s no good reason. There never is, other than the reddit mods wanting control and not wanting to share with those who already built community on Lemmy.
I think you are misunderstanding; we already moderate this community (check the sidebar).
We decided to move instances, as we don’t fully agree with the administration here, and the instance often seems to be down.
We are currently re-evaluating this decision, although the general public seems to be fine with it.
general public seems to be fine with it
Are you serious? Man are you reading the comments?
Acting like there’s only one true community and anyone else would have malicious intent. Jesus Christ man.
That’s… not really what I said?
I think having multiple communities about the same subject on different instances can be interesting and potentially good!
I just think in this case there wasn’t really a need to make a new community, when the main difference is a mod team from a different website. The tone of the post struck me as telling the community what to do. I was a little assumptive, I suppose.
I used to mod a subreddit/discord that has already had a couple lemmy communities pop up, so this is something I’ve been talking about with friends for a bit. I’m personally hoping to see moderators of reddit communities making space for new people to run things.
We’re happy to see any community around ricing, desktop customization, linux and art pop up, no matter where or how! However, “unixporn” is not the name of a category of community, it’s the name and “brand” (if you wanna call it that) of one specific community, managed by a specific set of people. Practically, I assume we couldn’t really prevent you from starting your own thing and also calling it “unixporn”, as we haven’t actually registered any trademark (and I don’t think we’d wanna do that, either). However, things such as the logo do have copyrights attached to them, and the current team has explicit permission to use that branding which unrelated communities wouldn’t.
We’re not “telling the community what to do”, we’re telling the people where we plan to continue the community in an official manner.
I’d honestly have preferred to see a discussion with the community about which instance to make official rather than a unilateral decision by Reddit mods.
This is frankly my beef with all of this:
- “we haven’t actually registered any trademark (and I don’t think we’d wanna do that, either)”
- “things such as the logo do have copyrights attached to them, and the current team has explicit permission to use that branding which unrelated communities wouldn’t”
You guys think you own the “brand” and not the community members. Good on you for putting in the effort to cultivate it on Reddit over the years and putting in the thankless work to moderate it, however, without the community your “brand” means nothing.
If we’re truly open source enthusiasts maybe it’s time to embrace some open source ideals around the community. Perhaps yearly mod elections which help rotate interested folk through the responsibilities. Some sign that you all are embracing the spirit of the community and not trying to own it.
Of course, if you care more about ownership, I’m happy to subscribe to both (all, if more pop up?) communities of the name “unixporn”, although as a slight protest I will not to post to your “official” community since it will appear to not support the actual essence of what we are doing here.
Should we maybe unpin this post? @StardustKyun@lemmy.ml
You might also probably want to add a few moderators as the only other one is Dessalines
@dessalines@lemmy.ml please gimme moderation so I can remove this pinned post.
Currently looking into getting some new mods here, post has been unpinned.
Thanks
But why?
On reddit when I reminded to other users that this community existed and they could move here you insisted to clarify that you’re not moving on Lemmy and reminding that the only official communities are on reddit and on discord. Now you change your mind and we should start cross posting, for what? So we can have that mod team who tried to discredit this place, instead of this community which is perfectly fine? Hell no, you made your decision, now you deal with it.
What’s gonna happend with this one?
Go back to reddit and leave us alone. The community itself has decided that this was the official one (where most users are) so this is it.
They already moderate this one, by the way.
Both can coexist, to be honest. Members will decide which one they prefer
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !unixporn@lemmy.world
