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.

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.

  • LibbEnglish
    10·
    12 hours ago

    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?

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      2·
      30 minutes ago

      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.

      • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        24 minutes ago

        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

  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    14 hours ago

    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 😄

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      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.