That’s… not really what I said?

I think having multiple communities about the same subject on different instances can be interesting and potentially good!

I just think in this case there wasn’t really a need to make a new community, when the main difference is a mod team from a different website. The tone of the post struck me as telling the community what to do. I was a little assumptive, I suppose.

I used to mod a subreddit/discord that has already had a couple lemmy communities pop up, so this is something I’ve been talking about with friends for a bit. I’m personally hoping to see moderators of reddit communities making space for new people to run things.

We’re happy to see any community around ricing, desktop customization, linux and art pop up, no matter where or how! However, “unixporn” is not the name of a category of community, it’s the name and “brand” (if you wanna call it that) of one specific community, managed by a specific set of people. Practically, I assume we couldn’t really prevent you from starting your own thing and also calling it “unixporn”, as we haven’t actually registered any trademark (and I don’t think we’d wanna do that, either). However, things such as the logo do have copyrights attached to them, and the current team has explicit permission to use that branding which unrelated communities wouldn’t.

We’re not “telling the community what to do”, we’re telling the people where we plan to continue the community in an official manner.

Your last sentence is just saying the exact same thing with different words.

For the record, you wouldn’t be able to trademark “unixporn” because “Unix” is a trademark of The Open Group. And a wholly unoriginal name.