Hi all,
One of the things that bugged me the most about Reddit was how people never used it to organize at scale large enough to make a difference (other than to protest Victoria Taylor’s firing and the demise of the third party apps), and by the time I thought to make subreddits designed to do it, Reddit was too huge and I had no real hope of making any sort of traction. I feel like lemmy.world is at the right stage where something like this can take off, but I have no idea what I’m doing. How do I go about getting mods? What sort of guidelines and tutorials are there to making, respectfully advertising the community around Lemmy, and moderating and guiding one’s community into a thriving one? How do I make sure I know what good etiquette is and that I’m following it?
I made two different communities: !movement@lemmy.world and !organize@lemmy.world. I figure you gather people at let’s start a movement and then move over to Organize! to organize action.
The spiel for !movement community is:
Come here to gather like minded individuals to ignite a movement. If you already have a movement in mind, post it and let’s go!
If you don’t have a particular movement in mind, you should still join this community if you want to be alerted to somebody organizing a movement on something you might end up being passionate about. Don’t you get tired of feeling like you’re all alone in wanting to make a change in the world? This is the place to alleviate that. Let’s figure out what we can team up together on and accomplish!
Once you’ve gathered people and started a movement, you can head over to our sister organization !organize@lemmy.world to organize and coordinate action to accomplish your goals.
Here is the spiel to the !organize community is:
The place to organize together on the internet.
Do you want to team up with a group of people and organize some sort of action? Get it started here!
Examples:
Organize to clean up a local or national or international spot.
Organize to create the next NAACP.
Organize to canvas for a referendum you are in favor of.
Organize a protest in coordination with the community over in !protest@lemmy.world
This is the place to work with your community to discuss and organize action. You can gather people over on our sister community !movement@lemmy.world and bring them over here to strategize organize the movement into action!
I want them to be a place where we can pull together like minded individuals of Lemmy and perhaps the Fediverse/ActivityPub together about a cause we care about and want to create a movement for. I figure c/movement will be were you can gather those folks c/organize is where you can have discussions and organize to take action. Perhaps there should be an associated matrix or discord channel for the second one.
I’d like both communities to be community owned and community-led. So on big decisions and deciding the guidelines, I’d like the community to call the shots while mods would do the heavy lifting of enforcing those guidelines and organizing things to where the community’s voice can be heard (so for example, after having a discussion about guidelines, consolidating all of that into some sort of vote if there needed to be one on finally voting in the new guidelines).
And the thing is we all have jobs, classes, family or something else entirely having claims to our attention and time, but we shouldn’t give up or give in. Let’s still figure out a way to persevere.
Wouldn’t having a single community gain traction more easily than having 3 separate ones?
I wrote a reply to this when I should have been focused on real life deadlines, and Lemmy with its server issues lost it. : (
But I think your question gets at the heart of the question of how these platforms can be used to organize action. Will get back to you some time this week when things have calmed down.
thanks for setting this up. Haven’t got a movement in mind but I’ll subscribe to all 3 (including protest) and see what I can get involved in.
Thanks for this, subscribed!