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.
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.
I prefer to let it show that I am a mod even when I was the only poster, felt more transparent about who I am. There is always the option to “Speak as moderator” on a comment you make in a community you mod. I use this option when I’m speaking in that role and not as another user who just so happens to be moderator.
Each approach work, as long as you feel comfortable with it!
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.
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
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.
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.
Good intentions but I never read peoples’ bios, I do not usually click on their profiles. Feels stalkerish. I’m here on Lemmy for conversation about the things I care about, not to get to know specific online strangers. I only check profiles if you say something that makes me suspicious of your intentions so I decide to look at your engagement on that account overall, or if you have an interesting username and I am curious about where it came from.
EDIT: forgot I have to click a profile to direct message people
I mean, I know you’re the !otomegames@ani.social expert, so I guess over time people still get to know each other.
For me it’s also a way for people to quickly check if it’s actually me or someone trying to impersonate me (probably won’t ever happen, but you never know)
That’s true. And you probably have more risk of getting impersonated, you kind of seem like a big recognizable name, especially since you seem to lead the “growing the Fediverse” discussions.
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
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.
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!
