The Lemmy community of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada!
To contact the mods, we recommend sending a modmail on Reddit until there is an equivalent feature on Lemmy. If you want, you can also message @Otter on Lemmy.
A community project with:
Summarized Guidelines:
Be polite: Treat each other with respect. No slurs (ex. racial, gender, homophobic, mental health, etc.)
Engage in good faith: If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.
Use Megathreads: If your question can go in a megathread or stickied post, you must post it there.
Keep content relevant: Posts must be related to UBC or its community. All memes must be OC and/or explicitly related to UBC.
Follow community rules: This includes illegal activities, linking to unauthorized copyrighted materials, doxxing, and violations of UBC academic conduct policy (read more).
Advertisements: UBC affiliated non-profit organizations may advertise within reasonable limits. Everyone else must contact us before posting. No private advertisement of any sale or purchase. (read more).
Surveys: Surveys should be posted only if they are related to UBC or are of unique interest to the UBC community. Only some survey types are allowed (read more).
No discussion of foreign politics unless it has clear and direct implications for the UBC community (read more).
Lost & Found Posts are only allowed for some items (read more). Found posts SHOULD NOT include images or descriptors (color, location) of the item. Pictures with personal information are also prohibited.
In addition, we strongly frown upon reposts and LQ posts, and such posts may be removed.
If you see a post or comment which is not in accordance with these guidelines please use the report feature and DO NOT ENGAGE with it.
FAQs/Megathreads:
That's basically it for me. I'm planning on staying subscribed to a few communities and contributing the same way I do on Reddit, or maybe a little bit more once the third party apps disappear. If this subreddit doesn't take off the same way, I'm fine with that. It's nice to have a second place to go to if something breaks on the other one.
I'm counting on a decent number of people trickling in though. Not 90k, but it'll get there
Decided to move away from Reddit thanks to all the issues with the company and their behaviour with the api, and then response afterwards to the blackout. Honestly much loving it here, though yeah shame for the smaller scale here. But I mean, might get some degree of a network overtime. Just put up some fliers or smth around campus i guess ahah
Another way would be to post helpful content in this community and then link to it on /r/UBC
We could discuss other promotion options around the start of term, but I'd prefer letting the community grow based on people finding useful content. That's how /r/UBC grew so big since I don't think they advertised much, past that one time years ago
What about mirroring certain discussion posts/comments (by hand, just crossposting them) from reddit to here, and answering them here?
That sounds good!
