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.ml
lemmy.sdf.org
- !communityrequest@feddit.uk
feddit.nl
jlai.lu
No community, but a thread herebeehaw.org
slrpnk.net
midwest.social
infosec.pub
aussie.zone
reddthat.com
lemmy.today
feddit.dk
lemmings.world
feddit.it
startrek.website
mander.xyz
lemmy.one
ani.social
- !community_requests@lemmy.wtf
- !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?
Thanks! Added.
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!
Indeed