Most instances have a community where users can request the moderator role for inactive or unmoderated communities.
As each instance names these slightly differently, I thought I’d create a thread to collect as many as possible.
- !support@lemmy.world
- !support@lemm.ee
- !community_requests@lemmynsfw.com
- !communityrequest@sh.itjust.works
- !community_requests@lemmy.ml
- !communityrequests@lemmy.ca
- !waisenhaus@feddit.org
- !div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !main@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !adopt_a_community@programming.dev
- !tchncs@discuss.tchncs.de
- !home@lemmy.zip
- !meta@sopuli.xyz
lemmygrad.mllemmy.sdf.org- !communityrequest@feddit.uk
feddit.nljlai.luNo community, but a thread herebeehaw.orgslrpnk.netmidwest.socialinfosec.pubaussie.zonereddthat.comlemmy.todayfeddit.dklemmings.worldfeddit.itstartrek.websitemander.xyzlemmy.oneani.socialttrpg.networkszmer.infolemmy.eco.br- !community_requests@lemmy.wtf
discuss.onlinelemmy.kya.moelemdro.idlemmy.nz- !general@lemmy.cafe
- !communityrequests@preserve.games
Please comment below with equivalent communities and I’ll add them to the list.
Note: When requesting the moderator role for a community, it is best to do so from a local account (same instance as the community) rather than a remote account. Many people (myself included) have encountered federation issues with some moderation actions when using a remote account.
Jlai.lu is a very small French instance, in order to coral our limited number of users towards more active communities the admins had made the decision a while ago to put into a deep sleep state any inactive community. They very recently created this dedicated thread where one can request the reopening of any ‘sleeping’ community: [Meta] Demande pour les réouvertures de commu + modération
A side-note and a suggestion for anyone considering requesting moderation role of an abandoned community on any instance:
Based on my personal experience requesting the !journaling@sh.itjust.works, I would suggest anyone to create an account on the concerned instance to administer that community. I can say that the admins at sh.itjust.works made no issue giving me full access to the community after I explained what I wanted to do with it, but even as a the new moderator with full access I had constant bugs and issues trying to do my job from my main account from my own instance (I’m French, so I was administrating that community from my jlai.lu account). All those issues, 100% of them, vanished the moment I created a new user account on the same instance I was trying to manage and gave that account full moderation role. I’ve also read other similar accounts of people facing bugs when they tried to moderate a community from a different instance.
A warning that may be worth adding in the OP?
I believe next Lemmy release should fix this issue?
The Lemmy devs just announced in the AMA Lemmy 1.0 is going to be released in autumn
They very recently created this dedicated thread where one can request the reopening of any ‘sleeping’ community
Thanks! Added.
I would suggest anyone to create an account on the concerned instance to administer that community.
Thanks, that’s an excellent point. I know Blaze and I (and probably others) have accumulated a suite of alt accounts because of moderation issues from remote accounts. I’ve added a note to the OP.
Super, thx!
Thanks, that’s an excellent point. I know Blaze and I (and probably others) have accumulated a suite of alt accounts because of moderation issues from remote accounts. I’ve added a note to the OP.
Indeed
FYI: comm_revival is not an official dbzer0 comm. It is more of an “advertisement” of dead communities, or an archive.
For dbzer0 you either request it on !div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com or the matrix chatroom.
Great post, OP! I’ll repost this to comm_revival if you do not mind 😄
comm_revival is not an official dbzer0 comm
request it on !div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Thanks! Updated.
I’ll repost this to comm_revival if you do not mind.
I do not mind at all! Though keep in mind that as we update this post, changes wouldn’t be reflected in a reposted version. Linking back to this post might be better long-term.
feddit.org has !waisenhaus@feddit.org
A community for adopting communities without active moderators or finding new moderators for your community.
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Looks like sopuli.xyz has used !meta@sopuli.xyz for this.
I don’t think discuss.tchncs.de has a dedicated community for this, but !tchncs@discuss.tchncs.de is the meta community for the instance.
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I had the same question but wasn’t sure of how I should go about asking. Thanks for this!
You’re welcome! Do you know if moistcatsweat has an equivalent magazine?
I’d suppose the most appropriate place for lemmy.cafe would be !general@lemmy.cafe
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!main@lemmy.blahaj.zone probably best for blahaj
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Or PM an admin :)
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