Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
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Lemmy is growing but we need to work to make easy to allow reddit mods to setup instances and fund them

I am a Reddit mod. Gimme the step-by-step tutorial! There are certain subs that I want to see reproduced ASAP, like /r/LifeProTips and more!

Maybe pick an existing one and help it get off the ground:

Well, on Beehaw you cannot create new communities, but you certainly can be made a mod of one even from another instance. Find the ones you want and ask the current mods of it.

Why can't we create communities on here? Do the Beehaw admins specifically restrict this? Thanks, by the way.

We've outlined the rationale in this thread: https://beehaw.org/post/140733

The tl;dr is that having many communities make it difficult to govern and ensure a safe space exists for the overall community and having too many can result in highly fragmented discussions that would be a challenge to grow and nurture organically like we do in the physical world.

It's not that we don't permit new communities, but more towards we moderate their creation based off the communities interests.

Be mildly competent at computers... or know someone who is and willing to help you.

Either setup your own instance, or find an instance that's already setup that you like... (ask around if you're unsure, but most people generally like beehaw.org [the instance you appear to be from])

Start a community...

Read here... https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

Success! now you've migrated your subreddit to lemmy!

(This is a little sarcastic. I'm not good at legit guides. But it is possible!)

Just wanted to add that not all instances are allowing new community creation, including Beehaw.

Yeah, there's an edit. Seems not to have propagated back to beehaw. yay for beta!

Well, that is an interesting script. I wonder how many will come across? Maybe they will pull the top 20% or something.