The option to create a community is right up on top of my screen. That implies to me that it’s a thing any of us can just do. I’m new here, though, and I don’t wanna make a faux pas or whatever. I have questions.

  1. Is there accepted etiquette around who creates a community or when?
  2. How general-interest should communities on midwest.social remain?
  3. Might creating more communities right now exacerbate the high CPU usage problems in any way?

It’s probably actually impressive how little I know about subreddit moderation, to say nothing of Lemmy community moderation. I just don’t want to incessantly ask things of a small number of people during an anomalous influx of instance traffic that’s probably already demanding enough.

Which… I guess is what this post is. Woof. Sorry. Just wanna be a good citizen!

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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure I’d be bad at it, but I decided today that I’m willing to try stuff. If people really do come here in significant numbers, the way to demonstrate that this is a viable community worth staying in is to have options for folks.

    However, I know how new and enthusiastic people can fuck shit up despite good intentions. I don’t believe that I’d do that, but I’m sure nobody thinks that about themselves. Idk what the ramifications would be of a dozen of us frenetically recreating reddit spaces here and then ghosting. Again, I don’t think I’ll do that! But still…