Comment on New Comm at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social after the Dbzer0 admins banned me!
tal@lemmy.today 3 days ago
New comm at !Lotrmemes@piefed.social
Maybe describe what the community is about and why a user would want to use it, given that not everyone is going to be an existing user?
I mean, there are 4 words in the post talking about the community, and 476 talking about whatever infighting led up to this.
My guess is that the typical user here reading the post on !newcommunities@lemmy.world is going to be mostly interested in what the lotrmemes community is about and maybe why the new one might differ from the old one.
PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The reason for leaving the other comm is what differentiates the two - you’re absolutely right that I failed to describe it though, I keep forgetting that acronyms are not always instantly recognizable lol. Fixed.
tal@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Thanks.
Note that if you’re “forking” a community, PieFed has a feature — which I have not personally used — that permits for replication of the existing community’s history. The admins of one community I was subscribed to on lemm.ee used it to create a new community on piefed.social before lemm.ee went down. I manually reposted history of another (smaller) community that was moving to lemmy.world,’ and thus didn’t have the replication feature available, and that was a big timesink. Much better to do it via automation, if you intend to do so, IMHO.
PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Oh damn, that’s a fantastic feature! Thank you for telling me!
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Note that this feature may still have some limitations: sh.itjust.works/comment/19025297
That said, it might be better than nothing, but you should look into its current limitations.