The title, really.
On Reddit, I was one of the ubiquitous lurkers. I’d like to maybe participate a little more on Lemmy, now that I’m here. I might even like to start a community, but I’m concerned about what kind of a commitment I might be getting myself into. I really have quite enough BS in my life without inviting more.
I’d be grateful for any advice, experience, or warnings folks might have. Thanks, and have a good one!
Edit: Thanks everyone for your responses! Maybe I will try my hand at a community or two!
At the moment almost zero. If it gets very active and you want to enforce rules like no reposting or something like that it could be a tiny bit. Mean users etc will also be managed by the server.
I guess it’ll depend on the size of the community you create. There maybe will some time in the future where it’ll take you some time to moderate the community. But I guess that if the community gets as large as this and you don’t want to invest that much time you can look for people who’ll help you with the moderation.
I created 3 communities and tbh they’re hasn’t been too much activity on any of them, so all my worries about moderation went down. I suppose if lemmy becomes super active it might be more of a pain to manage the three, but the lemmy community is so chill that I doubt there will be too many issues compared to how it is in reddit.
Yes, if you create a community, you are responsible for helping it grow. This includes things like writing a useful sidebar and adding an icon image.
The good news is, you can (and usually should) ask for help and recruit moderators to help you with this.
Thanks for asking this, and for everyone who has chimed in with advice. It is encouraging me to become more proactive.
