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.
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It does make it unnecessarily hard to spread comms on multiple instances, as then it adds an extra work for mods who volunteer to it (maintaining another local account). I hope they can fix that.
That brings up an interesting philosophical question: should single accounts (users) be moderating multiple communities across multiple instances? I envision something screwed up like those two super mods on Reddit that “moderated” hundreds of subs.
Individual accounts feels more like a feature at that point where people should be more tied to understanding their local instance, but still visible to all other instances.
Almost like the concept of a passport, you can visit other places, but can only run for office in your locality.
Especially since Lemmy is still growing, I think it’s fine that I mod !bunnies@lemmy.world and !otomegames@ani.social. That’s probably my hard cap though. I do not think I could consistently do three, the third would suffer from inconsistent posting.
I usually post only from one, the other I keep only to deal with reports
I add my alts in my bio to be transparent. Not sure if that helps that much.
I honestly don’t know where my opinion lands on that but it got me thinking. Posting your alts is good transparency though.
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
As a !bunnies@lemmy.world and !otomegames@ani.social mod, this is an annoying barrier to entry, but once I have the account made it’s really easy to switch between the two in my opinion. I have autofill on my passwords and Lemmy from iOS on just the raw website, no apps. Might be different for app users.
As you can guess, I’m well aware 😅 Thankfully most of the communities I mod are on Lemm.ee, so I only have to check that alt regularly, but that’s indeed an issue.
Oh so that’s the reason! I thought you just liked having a fuckton of alts :D
Well, it’s a bit of both:
- I use alts as a way to have different feeds, feddit.org is the one for meta Lemmy discussions, lemmy.cafe for hobby topics, lemmy.zip for tech.
- I also have moderation alts that I use to avoid being too obvious as a mod. I think it generally gives a bad vibe when the single and only poster in a community is also the mod, and also it shows me as a normal user when discussing with people.
Uploading / changing avatar and banners also causes issues as the remote instance image storage will be used.
Indeed, thanks!
From personal experience, some other actions like appoint another mod, pin/unpin threads do not work either.
Also, editing the community heading/title/sidebar was not working when I tried it with a non-local account.
Thank you, I knew I had forgotten something!
