They are very useful and autolovepon automatically creates discussion threads which I think will help keep the sub alive.
Roboragi linkes the anime mentioned to MAL and other sites which is super neat and useful.
We technically don’t even need moderator rights to send bot posts to a community, though common sense dictates that you should generally try to get permission before spamming someone else’s community with auto-posts. It seems ass-backward to me to try and take over someone’s community without permission in order to feel better about sending bot posts without permission.
In any case, I don’t believe that the Lemmy developers are overtly interested in managing community ownership drama when they can just tell people to go create a new community where they’re in charge. It’s a bad precedent and bad optics for them to get involved – I would feel wrong for even broaching the question to them. Apparently they totally do requests, but most of the requests that get granted seem to require the moderators to be absent for 1yr+. There’s also the minor wrinkle that communities can only be moderated by users on the same instance and new registrations for lemmy.ml are currently closed indefinitely.
Another alternative is to run it on a different Anime community on a different instance. Either way, one moderator (probably the one who created this community) has made no comments since doing so, and the other hasn’t made a comment or submission in 14 days. The last (and only) logged moderation action is from 26 days ago.
My ultimate point here is that if you are interested in growing a community but the people who have the ability to exert influence over what sticks and what doesn’t is not being responsive, some options available here are to get the unresponsive people out, or to go elsewhere to work with people who are.
Well, I’ve already tried asking the guy that runs !anime@lemmy.world, but he turned me down.
According to lemmyverse, that’s the only other major English language general anime community, hence my invitation to that other guy to run away with me and build a new community together.
There is !Anime@kbin.social too which has 2+k subscribers, but that’s on kbin so the API is different.
Unfortunately r/anime doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to leave, and none of the anime communities on Lemmy / kbin seem to have reached critical mass yet.
I wouldn’t mind checking out a new community if you build one, but I’m afraid it’ll probably struggle for at least a while before there will be enough content. That said, nothing’s going to happen if no one spends the effort, so definitely don’t be discouraged.
There’s also the minor wrinkle that communities can only be moderated by users on the same instance
Really? The lemmy documentation says you can. You need an account on the same instance only to be an admin.
Go figure, guess I heard people talking about the restriction on admins and heard “moderator”. Thanks for keeping me honest.
I actually tested appointing a moderator from an outside instance once in the past, but only via the user page, so I never had a chance to find out that the “Appoint Moderator” UI is actually tucked away inside the comment expandos.
