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!