User buelldozer is squatting on quite a few communities and "reserving" them for Reddit mods
There are a few regional ones that I'm sure some would love to see thriving, but I'd personally like to see an active SexOver30 community for those of us who are not spring chickens anymore. I know others have been removed for similar behavior.
Let's be clear here. It's much more appropriate to pmemail the admins than it is to start up a drama thread about a specific user. Your end goal is the same either way, but posting a thread publicly blasting another user is overboard.
Even if they managed to reserve all of the relevant communities on every instance, wouldn't it just take one instances admin to remove them from the community to start one there?
And then you have a community that is open and available. This seems like exactly the sort of problem that federation helps prevent.
Yes, you are technically correct that a community with the same name could be made on another instance. But this is the Lemmy.world Support community. As the largest Lemmy instance at the moment, why would they want their server full of inactive communities modded by squatters? It's also my primary instance, so why would I want to create another account elsewhere just to make that community?
You could still moderate it from your main account. Making another account is tedious, but easier than making this thread. Granted, this thread might be useful for multiple people and .world as a whole, so not really arguing against making this thread. Just that specific reason for not making your own community elsewhere.
r/Android did, which was it's own controversy.
They setup shop on lemdro.id, and convinced the c/Android community mods on Lemmy.world (w/ 16k subscribers) to close that community, leave a note telling everyone to migrate to the former r/Android mod's Lemmy community on a different instance.
This is very reddit-centric thinking, but it's not how the fediverse works.
About a month ago in the lead up to the reddit exodus a lot of people (myself included) were thinking this way. As in "whatever niche subreddit needs a new home - which instance is going to host them".
The reality is though, there's going to be a dozen small /c/SexOver30 communities on different instances. If you want to participate just subscribe to all of them. When you're interacting with your community it just doesn't matter what instance a specific post is on. Over time the better moderated fragments of your community will become more popular and the others less so - or they won't, and that's fine too.
Check that comment out for guidance on how to get this rolling. Step one is definitely be a person who is willing to take over some community as a mod and reach out to the current mod asking to do that. If they ignore or rebuff you, start gathering the evidence suggested to support admin intervention.
It is I, the user in question! I've been busy on another instance and hadn't checked in here for a few days, so apologies for that. I'm not a "powermod" nor am I "squatting" on communities as some kind of power play. The particular community you want is an NSFW adjacent space that's helped untold thousands of people over the years and it absolutely REQUIRES a sex positive moderation team without any egocentric jackassery in order to function correctly.
The /c/ you asked me for is, as you know, based on a Reddit sub and one that I'm heavily invested in. I've been part of that community as both a user and moderator for a very long time. I am quite literally one of the people who helped build and maintain what you enjoyed.
Is it "Reserved" for Reddit moderators? No, or at least not really. When I created that /c/ it looked like Reddit was going to come completely unwound very shortly (still might actually) so I was making some elbow room in case we needed to shift over in a hurry. In fact all of the communities I created here are the same way; I'm not just "a" mod in the subs those lemmy communities are based on I'm actually a builder of them. It's also why some of them have "placeholder" posts, so if another mod from that sub happened to wander by they would know to make a request.
With that said you are absolutely correct that I need to either do something with the /c/ you requested or let it go. So with that how about you join me in building a similar community here on lemmy.world?
Thanks for the reply! I and my wife are two of those thousands who were helped by that subreddit over the years. I would love to help build a similar space here for those of us who have left Reddit completely behind. My intention was not to stage a coup or hostile takeover -- I just wanted to see it turn into an active and positive community.