Aslo we shouldn't forget that it has been a particularly hectic week for anything reddit related.
Between connection issues related to the large influx of new users, lots of learning curve, ambiguity of whether reddit was going to back down or not, and just the general trying to rebuild our online worlds to account for what reddit was beforehand. It's not at all surprising that people haven't necessarily found time to build out the content of their new magazines.
soooo what you're saying is that you want other people to do unpaid homework for your pleasure and you're not willing to lift a finger to help but would rather just whinge and moan? okay, got it. thanks.
I agree with you that if they're willing to grab the name for purposes of creating a place for that content to move from Reddit, they can at a minimum add some text and a single post declaring that reason.
Right. I saw some content I wanted to post but the magazines didn't exist here yet, so I created them. I copied the existing rules and put a comment that any existing mods were welcome to take over. My motivation was that I wanted new people to find their familiar subs when they come here, but I have no aspirations of actually modding it myself if the original mods come along.
E: I do kinda think it wasn't the right move now and that while we are small we should consolidate into less niche magazines, but what's done is done, however it's not a power play with everyone anyway.
This has been my approach - to observe that a topic is missing and put up a "lightning rod" - if no lightning strikes, the magazine can wither, but if others are looking, they have a place to accumulate.
Moderating != creating content. If you don't like the lack of content in a magazine, stop lurking and post something.
It seems a little early to declare them inactive, really. This magazine is 2 weeks old, and given when the blackout started, a lot of the ones in question are 4 days old or less. Not having any activity yet is understandable. And I could easily see deciding to do some of the prep work later after getting a few 503 errors.
I'd say if there's a community you particularly want to do well, post some content there yourself. Volunteer to help out. See if the person who created it is willing to add you as a moderator.
Some of them probably are dead, since the creator could easily have been trying things out here and decided it wasn't for them. But I'd say to give people a chance to return...
This is a good point too. I saw some many that I'd like to follow that didn't even have a Welcome thread so, to the idea that some are just name grabbing as well and hoping it'll be useful one day.
Part of the federation is multiple kbin or lemmy instances can all have /popularnamehere and than can federate to to the other. Plus /technology on kbin could be wildly popular while another may not be. Or both are going strong, but folks like more responsive in one instance than another.
I don't know, I'd wait a bit more before declaring any of these new magazine/communities inactive or see any ill-intent in the users opening them.
Vulcan will repost an older comment about this thing, basically recreation of subreddits is bound to happen in the threadiverse:
It's inevitable that some people (Vulcan included) will try to recreate sub-subreddits into sub-magazines, given prevalence of sub-subreddits on the Snoo Platform.
Umbrella magazines are great but some people prefer more specialised discussion place, so both umbrella and sub-magazines are fine for their purposes.
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