Comment on New to lemmy with some teething problems
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The concept of “official” community doesn’t make any sense and should be ignored deapite what some might try to sell you. Many of the biggest communities here are not necessarily “official Reddit replacements” (in the sense that they got the same mods). A community having a Reddit mod or two isn’t necessarily more “official” than another that has mods who were never mods, it’s a stupid argument advanced mostly by Reddit mods who want to preserve the same role on the Fediverse.
daithi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Completely fair point. I know a lot of reddit mods get too attached, it becomes too big a part of their self identity etc. When I found the sub.rehab site I didn’t think too hard about it. At first glance it just seemed to fill my needs. I will try the lemmyverse search. 2 of 3 comments on this post recommended it. What’s funny is that I found the 3 I’ve already tried by trying to read sticky/pinned posts to answer my questions before making my own post!
The fragmentation thing I’ll just have to adjust to. I actually miss the days of forums. You can still find and entire forum for your 2003 car for example with limitless knowledge on it (unless it was all photobucket based…). Anything is better than Discord (grumble).
On reddit (and I know you said not to try and replicate it but I don’t think that applies here) I was never much interested in memes, shitposting, /r/all etc. I subscribe to a sub for all my hobbies (gaming, snowboarding, my sports teams etc) and that’s about it.