I keep seeing communities on lemmy writing in their bio “not official” or in some way deferring to the reddit community. I also see them writing that they’re willing to give up their community to the reddit mods if they ask. It’s like the whole place has imposter syndrome.
We’re the adults, guys.
We’re here. This is our community now. We broke up with that site, and we are making a new one. Run your community the way you think it should be run. Their communities are not any more official than ours. This is our place, not theirs.
We’re the adults. We’re the mods. We’re the community.
Some “official” subreddits for specific media have the actual backing and blessing of the artists and companies they’re about. Making a distinction in that case is reasonable. I’m considering making a magazine for a niche game I’m into, but the “official” subreddit is recognized by the dev and publisher, so I would be careful to separate myself as “unofficial” - while also approaching the dev to see if there’s interest in changing that.
Making a distinction for general-interest subs like “music” (no specific artist(s)) is less useful.