Seeking new moderators for abandoned communities
Seeking new moderators for abandoned communities
Hello everyone. We are seeking volunteers to take over a number of abandoned communities. If you are interested in becoming a moderator of any of the communities listed below, please look for the “Moderator Needed” post in the community and add a comment. You will be responsible for monitoring the community, dealing with any objectionable posts and comments, and hopefully building it up as a lively space for your fellow Lemmy users.
You can moderate using an account from another instance. However, due to a bug in Lemmy you will not receive user reports from the community. To make your life easier you should consider using a sh.itjust.works account for moderating sh.itjust.works communities, at least until that bug is fixed.
If any of these communities remain abandoned then we will eventually remove them.
Un-moderated communities:
!hotlinemiami@sh.itjust.works
!politics@sh.itjust.works
!goodnewseveryone@sh.itjust.works
!goodolmemes@sh.itjust.works
!golf@sh.itjust.works
!lain@sh.itjust.works
!afx@sh.itjust.works
!lounge_music@sh.itjust.works
!vintagecomputing@sh.itjust.works
!thegreatsatanatlarge@sh.itjust.works
!daftpunk@sh.itjust.works
!pihole@sh.itjust.works
!minecraft@sh.itjust.works
!ace_combat@sh.itjust.works
Note that this list only includes communities that currently have no mods at all.
Communities that have mods who have been inactive is another story, but something we plan to address too.
Would it not be better to simply delete those communities and/or direct people to bigger/established communities instead? It would avoid making people join multiple communities in fear of missing some content out. I feel the fragmentation is holding lemmy back in some ways because there is no way that I know of to easily merge communities into a single one on the client side
In these specific instances I agree with you. The few I looked at were just single or no post communities. I think the mods just want to give these a chance in case anyone actually does want to take them over and breathe some life into them.
In general though, I think it's healthy for the fediverse to have options, even with similar topics. I'm sure you might recall situations on Reddit where people didn't like how a sub was moderated, so some people would set up r/TRUEwhatever.