There are a few regional ones that I’m sure some would love to see thriving, but I’d personally like to see an active SexOver30 community for those of us who are not spring chickens anymore. I know others have been removed for similar behavior.
Is it appropriate to contact the instance admins in this case? Not really sure what the procedure is for this issue on Lemmy.
Let’s be clear here. It’s much more appropriate to pmemail the admins than it is to start up a drama thread about a specific user. Your end goal is the same either way, but posting a thread publicly blasting another user is overboard.
*edited for pedants
Except posting here is what admin has asked us to do in previous situations. PMing was literally discouraged. I did end up sending an email.
Edit: Sorry, I realize he directed people in that specific situation to !moderators@lemmy.world, but there have been multiple times in extremely similar situations over the past week when users have been told to post here. Both are modded by the lemmy.world admins, and I would think either is appropriate.
Even if they managed to reserve all of the relevant communities on every instance, wouldn’t it just take one instances admin to remove them from the community to start one there?
And then you have a community that is open and available. This seems like exactly the sort of problem that federation helps prevent.
Yes, you are technically correct that a community with the same name could be made on another instance. But this is the Lemmy.world Support community. As the largest Lemmy instance at the moment, why would they want their server full of inactive communities modded by squatters? It’s also my primary instance, so why would I want to create another account elsewhere just to make that community?
You could still moderate it from your main account. Making another account is tedious, but easier than making this thread. Granted, this thread might be useful for multiple people and .world as a whole, so not really arguing against making this thread. Just that specific reason for not making your own community elsewhere.
Total tangent, but have any Reddit mods of the big communities setup shop on Lemmy?
I’d be surprised if they hadn’t, but I am surprised I haven’t heard of any so far.
r/Android did, which was it’s own controversy. They setup shop on lemdro.id, and convinced the c/Android community mods on Lemmy.world (w/ 16k subscribers) to close that community, leave a note telling everyone to migrate to the former r/Android mod’s Lemmy community on a different instance.
A whole instance for one community seems excessive.
I guess they have trust issues after having to deal with /u/spez…
an r/AskAnAmerican mod reserved !askanamerican@infosec.pub
Why do you say that? Especially for highly moderated subs (e.g. /r/ChangeMyView) I would find it to be a selling point.
This is very reddit-centric thinking, but it’s not how the fediverse works.
About a month ago in the lead up to the reddit exodus a lot of people (myself included) were thinking this way. As in “whatever niche subreddit needs a new home - which instance is going to host them”.
The reality is though, there’s going to be a dozen small /c/SexOver30 communities on different instances. If you want to participate just subscribe to all of them. When you’re interacting with your community it just doesn’t matter what instance a specific post is on. Over time the better moderated fragments of your community will become more popular and the others less so - or they won’t, and that’s fine too.
I understand how the fediverse works. This is a support community for the specific instance Lemmy.world, not the entire fediverse.
Sure, sorry mate - I didn’t mean to imply anything, just relaying my own learnings.
You’re good. I think a few are misunderstanding my intentions. I do have an alt on a much smaller instance, and I know how all of that works. But lemmy.world is my primary instance, and in the interest of this specific server, squatters and inactive communities aren’t a good thing. Admins here have already asked that they be reported so they can be removed.
