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What happens when a community in Lemmy is left without a moderator? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/443281

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/443118

I am excited about the idea of Lemmy growing and having more and more active users.

In my case, the most visited subreddit was r/chess, and I have tried to promote the use of https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

This is the lemmy chess community with the most subscribers, however I saw that it has no active moderator, the previous one corresponds to a deleted account. I see that this can be a significant obstacle to adoption, what can be done in these cases?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Request the admin make you a moderator

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does that mean the admins have the power to remove you as a moderator?

Who holds them accountable?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, its their hardware or money running the server instance. Accountability comes in the fact that you can nuke your community and move instances whenever you want to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Presumably instances whose admins behave unpopularly will see their users move to other instances. You sort of choose your own admins, that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The owner of the instance can re-assign moderators.