Let’s say I joined through an English-only instance but want to start a community in German, which would ideally be over on feddit. Is that possible, or do I need to create a local login over there and then add my off-site account as moderator?

  • AdaAEnglish
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    2 years ago

    do I need to create a local login over there and then add my off-site account as moderator?

    That’s pretty much the only way. Which is a good thing, otherwise, everyone would make their communities on lemmy.ml, and we’d have centralisation entrenched in to the whole thing

    • godless@latte.isnot.coffeeOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Got it, thanks! The question came up since I’m registered with a single-purpose instance (as far as local communities are concerned) and since we don’t have a clue whether we maintain it in the long run, I just don’t feel like migrating some of my larger reddit communities over.

  • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    You could also ask a user on the particular instance if they could create the community and then transfer ownership to you. (So if you really want a community on Feddit.de, you can send me a direct message with the desired community name ;)

  • Alkalyon@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I don’t even think you can create communities in another instance. I can see the button to do it only for your current instance so yes, you would need to create an account over there and then create the community.