Lemmy is great, but there are some “subreddits” that would be great to implement on Lemmy. This means I will have to add them myself and be a moderator.
How much work will this likely involve? Assume moderately popular. Both in “hours per day” and “frustration”.
Are there legal risks?
Assume I am in the USA, in a state with a functioning government.
Thank you!
None at all. Mods are happy for the opportunity to dictate what other people get to say.
It’s not work for them.
From my days modding an outdoor hobby subreddit, the only “risk” I saw wasn’t direct where I was fearful of being sued or anything.
We would get posts about missing hikers, if you have info please call/email these personal contact numbers. It was the type of post I was quickest to lock down. I would pin a mod comment telling people with info to contact law enforcement, NOT the poster and definitely NOT to put details on reddit anywhere. It’s not unheard of for an abusive person to post a “help me find my
loved onevictim” request.Second most urgent type of post I locked down where the “hey, I found these mushrooms/berries/animal remains on the trail, I can eat them, right?”. Sweet baby jeebus, trusting Internet strangers on something like that is almost as bad as trusting an LLM.
Creating the community is easy, the hardest part is to keep it active. It’s usually easier to start contributing to an existing related more general community.
E.g. don’t create a community for Sim City, post to !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works
What do you mean by moderately popular? As far as I can tell nowhere on Lemmy is big enough for it to be a significant job yet. On larger platforms, it definitely can be.
Someone reached out to me and asked if I would mod atheism since they didn’t have anyone doing it. I don’t know how it ranks in activity, but I get like 1 report every 4-6 months or so, and most of those comments/posts don’t get removed because I didn’t see anything out of line, even if I disagree with it.
