I’m still a mod in my city local subreddit.
One of the other mods is also involved in a Whatsapp group which, over time, has evolved to a quite active community, with subgroups dedicated to several topics to help people settling in the city (housing, finance, parenting, etc.)
The Whatsapp group has recently requested to add a link to their website in the subreddit sidebar. The mod who is also involved in thee WhatsApp group brought the topic in the mod chat.
One of the oldest mods (who isn’t even modding that much these days, it’s mostly another one single person, poor them btw) replied with the statement in the title.
Seems so weird to me to want to gatekeep the FAQ of a subreddit that much. The objective is to help newcomers to the city integrate, why make it difficult to have all pointers in the same place?
In addition, this is probably the kind of reactions you’ll get when trying to talk about a Lemmy community on a subreddit.
That’s the objective you’ve projected into the subreddit and its moderation team.
Their actions make it clear that their objective is this weird capitalist “growth at any cost” mentality that permeates the modern influencer culture online today. They resent competition because they don’t want to have to try.
I’m not so sure.
There were discussions a while ago about splitting the sub in two communities: the main one, and then a “new comers” one, for where people could ask regular new comers questions. There was some push for the community, as the sub was becoming more and more a “what are the best neighborhoods” set of questions every week.
That one mod (I think it was them, not sure, but anyway, it’s not important) where against it, because it would “fragment the community”. From a pure growth perspective, creating another community where people would also come was beneficial to them (as they would mod both), but I guess they were just reluctant to change. To me it’s more this than the growth mindset that pushes them to make this kind of decisions.
Still so weird that people work for a Nasdaq company for free.
I mod here a few communities on Lemmy, because I know everybody, from the devs to the admins to the app devs, is a volunteer. Giving my free time to work for a company that has shareholders seems so strange.