For context: One of the rules in that community is that you aren’t allowed to post anything related to suicide. In a mental health community.

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      I mean, Lemmy has the exact same potential for issues with admins and mods - the key difference being that if those issues happen you can just up and off to another instance without having to abandon Lemmy altogether.

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      The difference is that instances have self determination. On Reddit all subreddits have to operate under the umbrella of Reddit whether it’s good for them or not. Here communities can go to an instance they’re aligned with. For example there’s a very popular German instance that has all the topics in German for a German audience. In the case of mental health, the ideal situation is thata non profit with expert guidance could create their own instance with communities lead by people who actually know what they’re doing. On Reddit there’s only one sub that can have a name whereas on lemmy you could have a bunch of mental health communities under someinstitute.org or something.

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      Yeah I noticed this immediately. I think the mods here are on average worse than reddit even

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        Start a new community on another instance. This is the power of the fediverse.

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          I don’t have time to moderate a community or I would

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            I wouldn’t worry about that… There won’t be many posts and looking once per day is enough. :)

            If you are a regular Lemmy user, it won’t take any special time to keep an eye on such a small community.

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              So you’re saying the workload won’t be much because the new community will never be successful?

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        Well that kind of makes sense. After everyone left reddit, people came here and we’re getting told to start communities left and right. I think the new mods need to learn how to do things in a more structured way.

        For all it’s flaws, reddit has built a decent system for helping mods get started, even if a lot of the actual support is provided directly by other mods and not by reddit itself.