Lemmy is great, but there are some “subreddits” that would be great to implement on Lemmy. This means I will have to add them myself and be a moderator.
How much work will this likely involve? Assume moderately popular. Both in “hours per day” and “frustration”.
Are there legal risks?
Assume I am in the USA, in a state with a functioning government.
Thank you!
From my days modding an outdoor hobby subreddit, the only “risk” I saw wasn’t direct where I was fearful of being sued or anything.
We would get posts about missing hikers, if you have info please call/email these personal contact numbers. It was the type of post I was quickest to lock down. I would pin a mod comment telling people with info to contact law enforcement, NOT the poster and definitely NOT to put details on reddit anywhere. It’s not unheard of for an abusive person to post a “help me find my
loved onevictim” request.Second most urgent type of post I locked down where the “hey, I found these mushrooms/berries/animal remains on the trail, I can eat them, right?”. Sweet baby jeebus, trusting Internet strangers on something like that is almost as bad as trusting an LLM.