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Questions on creating and modding communities across lemmy instances (normalcity.life)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve recently found it beneficial to have a home lemmy instance that does not have a lot of users. This allows me to access content that has been defederated. But, as many have said, using the communities and creating content for them is like oxygen, and we need oxygen for survival.

So if I’m on a very small instance, but want to create a community that gets users, it makes sense to have that community on one of the larger instances. But how would one go about doing that from a smaller instance? Would I create the community from the larger instance and then interact with it from the smaller one? Or is that bad practice?

Any thoughts would be helpful.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Create an account with a larger instance (A), create a community, make a post inside. Comment with your smaller instance account (B) to that post, then you have a "make mod" button in the comment options from your A account. Afterwards you can leave the mod team (or stay on just in case of issues with the small instance).

No idea if it's considered bad practice, but it's exactly what I'm doing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This was the plan if it wasn't bad practice. And it seems like it's fine!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The thing is, with federation, it doesn't matter what instance your community is on. That's the whole point. Everyone can still see, subscribe, and interact with it anyway. The instance it happens to be on is moot. Your community will still get users if there are users interested in the topic and there are not other communities doing the same thing. They'll find it on browse.feddit.de or https://lemmyverse.net/communities like any other community.