Tl,dr: use a local account for moderation.

Hello everyone,

Just a quick reminder on the moderated federation topic: due to some bugs on Lemmy, reports won’t federate to mod accounts on other instances (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4744). Even if they do (it works sometimes), closing them from a remote instance won’t federate back to the instance where the community is located, staying in the admins’ reports backlog.

From personal experience, some other actions like appoint another mod, pin/unpin threads do not work either.

While this stays an issue, please use local accounts to moderate.

That’s all, see you around.

  • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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    311 days ago

    I honestly don’t know where my opinion lands on that but it got me thinking. Posting your alts is good transparency though.

    • Blaze (he/him)OP
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      211 days ago

      And I make sure to keep the name and avatar consistent, so you never see me using one of my alts pretending to be another user agreeing with my main

      • Elevator7009
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        211 days ago

        Why’d you pick Blaze? Is that a Sonic character? I do recognize that your profile picture is some kind of Sonic character, but I never got into the franchise. I know Sonic, Amy, Shadow, and that’s it.

        • Blaze (he/him)OP
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          311 days ago

          To be honest, I don’t even remember where it comes from. I needed a nickname for Lemmy, and just found that this one was quick and easy.

          About the avatar, yes it’s Sonic inspired, I’m not even that big of a fan, I just played the game a bit when I was a kid.