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Without the "irrational mob of users," wouldn't the community just be you, and thus.... not a community?
Isn't that missing the entire point? "It's my community I built it."
So the people who exist in the community and partake in it aren't part of it? Only you are because you spearheaded it? When you die they will shut it down in reverence for what has been lost, like the NBA retires numbers?
Then why even give a shit and start one and put unpaid hours into it? I don't do any work without an end product to show for it. The users are just casually posting media. The mod has to sit there all day and make sure the community doesn't turn into a shit show.
Then you honestly don't understand what a community is or why you would want to be involved with it. Sadly this attitude seems to be everywhere these days.
A community isn't just for you.
We're literally in the Linuxmemes community where we're supposed to be part of an Open Source community so this attitude fucking baffles me.
If I write code that gets overwritten by better code, is it really worth it to bitch about how I have nothing to show for it now? Or should I be happy that someone more competent than me made the community better for everyone, including me?
I get that. But I'm from the old school. In the 90s and early 2000s, if you paid for server space, bandwidth, and set up a forum for multiple users, nobody questioned whether it was yours or not and your ability to do whatever you want with it. Users who didn't like it moved on or started their own.
You don't own a community on another instance, it's not even an ambiguous question, you can make one and be the main or only mod. But you do so with the understanding that the actual instance admins can remove you as a mod at any time.
You can still have that level of ownership with your own Lemmy instance, if you wish
Yup. I realize that. If the admin above me says to go fuck myself, I won't hesitate to leave for another instance.
The mayor doesn't own the town
At least the ones that do are the villains in those stories