A good example is https://lemmy.world/c/documentaries

One of their mods, https://lemmy.world/u/sabbah, currently mods 54 communites despite only being on Lemmy for about a month and has never posted on c/documentaries (except for his post asking for people to join his mod team).

The other mod, https://lemmy.world/u/AradFort, has one post to c/documentaries and moderates 18 communities.

Does Lemmy.World have a plan to remove this kind of cancer before we start getting reddit supermods here too?

Edit: This comment shows how this is even more dangerous than I had thought.

Edit2: Official answer from LW admin is here

Final: Was going to create an issue for this on the Lemmy github, but I browsed for awhile and found that it had already been done. If anyone wants to continue the discussion there, here it is - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3452

Perhap we need another issue for the problem in the original edit (It being impossible currently to remove a ‘founding’ mod without destroying either the community of their account)

  • Metal Zealot
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    is this him on Reddit too? If so, he’s trying to claim his subs from Reddit, which I personally think is bullshit

  • @yaniv@lemmy.ml
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    Good admins and moderation are the cornerstones of any community. Always have been, always will be.

  • 👁️👄👁️
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    Should do what Reddit did and make a takeover request subreddit. Admins would step in on subs that are clearly abandoned or squatted on and relinquish control to users who requested it. Nothing is lost anyways, since the subreddits were dead to begin with. Same can apply to the Lemmy instances.

    • Antik 👾
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      But there are options?

      We might not always react as fast as you like but this isn’t our job it’s a hobby project and sometimes there are other, more important issues that have to be handled first. But we will get to it! Cheers

      • @BitSound@lemmy.world
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        Can you comment or is it documented somewhere how “active” you and the other admins are planning on being RE mods? i.e. do you see community management as being more hands off, and if there’s a bad mod then people should make a new community, or would you want to step in and try to fix things? Reddit mostly took the approach of being hands off, which had some nasty side effects and is why a lot of the comments in this thread are wary of powermods. IMO if you and the other admins were to be proactive in modding the mods, that would probably solve a lot of people’s worries.

      • GONADS125
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        I think you guys have done a pretty kickass job. And your team’s responsiveness with the big issues has been enough to impress my cynical ass. Appreciate you guys.

  • @JshKlsn@lemmy.ml
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    I mod a bunch. Only because I joined when Lemmy got it’s big first wave, and the site was literally dead. My contribution was making communities for people to start posting in, because a ton of people simply don’t want to moderate, or don’t know how to create communities.

    Within the first week I got a bunch of DMs from people asking to be mods, and I added all of them. I am not making communities to horde them. I am making them so people have places to post. To get the ball rolling.

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    I knew this would happen and that’s why I am FOR hardcoded community limits per user unless an admin, in individual cases, allows the user to open additional communities based on past handling of other communities the user has been (or was supposed to be) modding.

    Letting a user create 54 communities, especially those that were some of the biggest communities on Reddit is dangerous. Powermodding is a serious problem on online platforms and letting individual users create unlimited communities leads to it. Imagine how much money this person might want to sell their Account(s) for when the platform grows further and interest might accrue?

    It is humanely impossible to mod more than a handful of communities alone anyways. The users you mentioned are powermods.

    As another good example against freedom of creating unlimited communities is user LMAO whom most of you will probably at least have heard of by now, or even found when searching for a community that has numbers in its name.

    I will stand by this position.

      • genoxidedev1
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        Should we just keep the door open with an advertising sign or should we at least take the advertising sign away?

        That’s not an argument not to introduce hardcoded limits, it is a problem for sure, but leaving them the opportunity without at least making it a bit of a hassle is just going to invite opportunity assholes.

      • @CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
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        They absolutely could. I don’t know if there’s a good technical solution to that. Maybe requiring IP registration or some other identity verification for mods over a certain number of communities.

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            They don’t change fast enough.

            You can’t ban by IP, but you can sure tell what accounts are owned by the same person or coming from the same network.

            It’s not perfect, but it’s another step that will catch many.

            • @Aux@lemmy.world
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              There are millions of people in the same network, lol. IP doesn’t tell you anything.

      • @James@lemmy.ca
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        Admin owners can see IPs, which will grab most of the abusers who do this.

        There are other less direct techniques that major social media platforms use to identify users with multiple accounts even on separate IPs, which Lemmy will certainly need one day.

        For now though, simply using IPs is good enough until those more sophisticated algorithms are developed.

    • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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      Ok, I think you have a point. But where do you draw the line?

      IMO, it shouldn’t be a hard limit - that’s asking the dev team to deal with arguments on the topic indefinitely.

      I think per-instance limits make more sense in the short term, but that still just mitigates the reason not to do it, it doesn’t solve it.

      Ultimately, I think we should experiment with novel strategies, such as various democratic spins on moderation that decentralize authority. The fediverse is all about decentralization and trying stuff without missing out on the larger network after all.

      You seem passionate and you have a solid argument - you should post an issue on the GitHub. This shouldn’t be hard to actually implement - the majority of the work on this one is convincing everyone this should be done and what the rules should be

      • genoxidedev1
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        I agree that a global hard-limit is problematic since every instance (admin) will want it to be how they see it, of course.

        A per-instance limit was what I had in mind (not originally, this point has come up before because of the user I mentioned in my last paragraph and someone convinced me; There also already is an issue regarding that or something similar as far as I remember and I gave my opinion on it in a reply).

        I think in that sense we both agree, it should be per-instance, and as you mentioned, the fediverse is all about decentralization, which is why I think something should be done about it.
        And I think unless we have further methods to maintain decentralized moderation, this hardlimit (per-instance) is the first step, or at least a step, in the necessary direction.
        Best case scenario, we’ll get other methods of maintaining decentralized moderation and get rid of the softlimit (?) later down the line.

        Of course democratic spins like subscribers voting mods every now and then would be an interesting solution (that opens up new problems, of course, but that comes with every solution).

        Hope my ADHD didn’t hurt the readability.

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          Haha no worries, I too think in webs, I found it pretty clear. Talking to other people with ADHD is so much more straightforward

          I’m convinced on your approach (at least until someone comes out with a more elegant way to handle it), I’m focusing on the client side for now, but if this is still an open issue in a month or two I’ll consider writing it myself. It’d be a good ticket to shake off the rust in Rust

          My thoughts on democratization go further than that - when Reddit made their disingenuous democracy pitch, I started to think what that would actually mean

          My thought is something like, everyone is invited to be a mod, or random members are asked to do an hour of mod work. They go through and do mod work, but everything requires corroboration

          In my approach, you’d have to look at every mod action, then decide if it defaults to action or inaction. Then you use some basic statistics to come up with numbers to pass or reject an action based on how many mod actions your community clears per Capita.

          I plan to look at it down the road…I don’t know nearly enough about modding to say I’ve got a fully formed approach, but I think there’s something there. I plan to ask some admins if I can do a short stint as a mod in order to better understand what it’s like, and then I want to look at this.

          I also have this idea of a “mitosis” operation to split a community when the mods feel it’s grown beyond them and they’re losing control… Fomo makes the idea controversial, but i generally find small communities better than large ones in every way. Maybe by pairing this with some version of the “multi” idea a lot of people are pushing we might find a happy middle ground

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    Comment scrubbed. Leaving .world due to corporate-adjacent admins, lack of transparency when making changes, selective rule enforcement and inconsistent rules on piracy.

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      Maybe they just wanted to create the spaces and hoped to pass it on to someone who was interested but for now have the space where people could find, hopefully

    • @ktr41n@lemmy.worldOP
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      They would likely need to be deleted, unless things have changed since this comment was made.

      Oof, that’s rough. I hadn’t realized that.

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          If you’re interested in one of those communities and the mod is still active - pick it up with them first. In cases where the mods have abandoned the community completely we as admins can transfer the community to a new mod/team.

          Edit: https://lemmy.world/post/1661949

          • Wolfeh
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            Thank you for the response! I had begun to wonder about this too, since I’ve seen a few examples of it in passing.

            • Antik 👾
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              That question keeps coming up as if users can not create multiple accounts to circumvent that. As I said as long as they manage to get teams together and actively moderate those communities following the community guidelines and server rules there’s not much that can be done. And this is NOT reddit 2.0 - there are other instances were the exact same communities can be created and grow.

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                That question keeps coming up as if users can not create multiple accounts to circumvent that.

                If we are taking that approach, does that not make the rest of the rules unenforceable as well?

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                  How would you even know that it is the same person if they use two separate accounts?

                  Say someone does something against the rules, gets banned. Creates another account and does the same thing. We will ban them again if they violate the server rules but how would we know that it was the same person?

                  Unless it’s an obvious troll posting the same stuff over and over on different accounts.

                  I’m sorry but your logic makes no sense.

    • Izzy
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      In most cases they are not going to respond either because they are inactive or they are intentionally squatting the names for whatever reason. They can’t respond or they don’t want to.

      • @quat@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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        Find an instance with active and good admins? Maybe they are very busy, in which case it’s also a good idea to decentralize.

        • @ktr41n@lemmy.worldOP
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          The call to join ‘their’ team. Also, why did they create a community they had no interest in modding / participating in to begin with?

          • Blaze (he/him)
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            Well, at this very moment, it’s their team. They put an icon, a sidebar, a few users are posting.

            I don’t see what’s your issue here. Why not join them if you want to mod that community? I’m sure they would be happy to have you onboard

            • hypelightfly
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              The issue was explained in the first post, what do you not understand?

            • @ktr41n@lemmy.worldOP
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              I feel like you, and several others, are entirely missing the point.

              Its not that I want the community so much as I am concerned about the squatting aspect at large.

              • Blaze (he/him)
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                Well, if they are squatting and not doing their jobs as mods, then people will ask the LW admins to remove them, and that’s it.

    • Izzy
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      Doesn’t resolve the issue if no admins are active there.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        One of the admins has commented in this very thread, so I’m not overly worried about them lacking activity.

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        They have been DDoSed twice in the last few days, I guess they are working on that as a top priority

  • @TeaHands@lemmy.world
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    There is a current initiative to get new mods for communities that are being used, but have inactive mods. Whether that covers any of these and what exactly the criteria are for “inactive”, I do not know.

    • @SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
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      I mod 3 very small communities (less than 800 subscribers total) but other than creating the communities and posting some content to get the ball rolling I haven’t actually done any modding. I’m not sure what there is to do. No one has tagged or messaged me, no ones reported anything… am I inactive, redundant or just a terrible mod?!

        • @SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
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          I thought I was going to have to sticky a “friendly reminder; no transphobia” post earlier. It was touch and go but I think it came down on the right side of the discussion/argument divide.

          What was your report? Did you get ban-happy?!

      • 567PrimeMover
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        I run a small community of under 100 users. Everyone’s been following the rules so far, and there hasn’t been very much that has needed my attention. I still try to make an occasional post and interact with posts that other users make (favorite, boost, comment).

        I think that if you’re at least interacting with your communities in some way, you should be good!

      • @Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Lemmy is still small enough that you may just be getting lucky with everyone behaving themselves. If no one is reporting anything, just try to stay in-the-loop with the general goings on in the community so you can jump in if something does happen.

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        Just ban a random user each week to show you’re still active.

        You have enough users to make it at least 800 weeks!

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    The solution to this is going to an Instance that works the way you prefer. Not creating extra rules for this one.

    People will sort themselves into the kinds of places they prefer, as time goes on.

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      Having a rule against the mass creation of communities with malicious intent is not a big ask in my opinion. Or in the event of an abandoned community. This isn’t some kind of quirk of instance policy, but a thing that will happen on all instances and should be dealt with by all instances. Otherwise the instance will be seen as lacking administration.

      • AnonymousLlama
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        There really should be some sort of mechanism for appeal, a way to submit a request to the server admin and have them look at it. Someone rolling up, making 50 communities and never moderating it or allowing comment seems like roadblock to me

      • @InvaderDJ@lemmy.world
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        Having a rule against the mass creation of communities with malicious intent is not a big ask in my opinion.

        How would you define malicious intent and how would that apply to the situation OP is talking about?

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          Just making a community and doing nothing is malicious in my opinion. If you had no intention of engaging in the community you made that is malicious intent.

          • @InvaderDJ@lemmy.world
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            What if they post garbage to keep “active” in their subs? How do you mandate what even counts as garbage or actual engagement on a sub that someone else created? And now do you make a rule that is clear and repeatable on that?

            That’s the problem when it comes to power mods. Determining which are malicious versus those that are good stewards is hard to legislate.

            The best way I can think of would be to make a rule saying you can only mod a certain amount of subs and if you try to evade the limit by making bots or alt accounts, you get banned.

            That will of course be easy enough for the most determined to get past. But I can’t think of any other way to reign in this behavior without incentivizing worse behavior like posting garbage to stay “active”.

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              Well they aren’t posting garbage. They are posting nothing. Not even elsewhere on Lemmy. So we could cross that road when it comes to that.

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                Fair. I’m just thinking about the inevitable conclusion. Everyone wants to avoid garbage power mods but I can see that any real fix will be difficult and could bring it vague, arbitrarily applied rules and mods trying to avoid limits by flooding with garbage.

                Maybe it will be different here. But I just see it as an inevitability of user created subs and user moderation.

      • @Candelestine@lemmy.world
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        If you could prove malicious intent I’d be fine with this. But a whole bunch of internet people claiming malice is nothing new, nor is it very good evidence.

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        I wish a user could only register 1 community/magazine. And to register more, at least some time should pass and maybe requires at least minimum of certain “Reputation Points” and follower. I don’t believe this is the best solution, but better than a wild west, and it would slow down the register spam.

        • @nekat_emanresu@lemmy.ml
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          Yep. One of the biggest problems with lemmy is the spammed low quality stuff like posts and communities. It needs soul! Your solution would help.

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      You do know that these instances communicate with each other, right? So even though you can create a community elsewhere people will look for a community, find it and the mod can essentially get a community under their control for free.

      I for one am happy to just build up my small niche at c/daria.

      Funnily enough i intuitively stayed away from squatted communities because of their lack of content.

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        I mean, yes, I understand what you are describing. But squatters have a mechanism for dealing with them that already exists.

        This strikes me as more of a complaint specifically about power users, which I simply don’t see a good way to solve.

        • @MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
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          But squatters have a mechanism for dealing with them that already exists.

          I’m sorry, i don’t understand what you mean or how that relates to the problem.

          Perhaps one could impose a limit on how many communities one can make within a certain amount of time to slow down squatting.

          • @Candelestine@lemmy.world
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            I’m trying to understand the problem myself. If it’s just people claiming multiple subs, why shouldn’t someone in a smaller Instance somewhere claim a bunch of small subs?

            Why shouldn’t someone be able to claim 50 different, but related, niche subs?

            If the problem is just squatting, that is separate, and the communities can be claimed after the mod goes inactive.

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      I’d also kind of argue that it would be desirable to encourage creating communities other than on one or two instances, that for load and reliability reasons, it’d be nice to leverage the federated nature of the network.

      If someone is tying up “documentaries” on every lemmy and kbin instance, okay, fine, that’s a legit concern. But if they have it on one and it’s not very active and a would-be moderator thinks that they can make a more-appealing community, then why not just go make a better community on another instance?

      I mean, it’s creating a fight over a resource that (a) isn’t scarce in the first place and (b) would probably be better-spread out anyway.

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        Yep.

        Like c/politics on here is run by a couple of kids who won’t remove misinformation or hate speech because that would be mostly “conservative” opinions and if everyone was held to the same standards, that’s somehow a bias against them.

        It sucks, but there’s a bunch of other instances with better ones.

        People might see that one first, but it’s not like reddit where theyre the only c/politics.

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          I think that there are a few legit issues for mods who don’t want to spread out, but I think that those are problems that either are going to have to be fixed at a technical level on the Threadiverse anyway or where we want to push people to spread out anyway:

          • If you put work into creating a community, you don’t want it to be on an instance that vanishes. Legit concern. Lemmy.world is the biggest lemmy instance right now, so “safety in numbers” – if everyone else is there, then hopefully it is going to stay up. But (a) every other would-be mod is in the same camp too, and the only way to address that is to have people start spreading out, (b) having some mechanism for post-instance-failure community portability to another instance might be interesting, but we don’t currently have it, and © right now I think that people look at user count and maybe community count to figure out where they should go, and so it’d be nice to have people spreading out.

          • The way lemmy and kbin presently work, communities are only visible to users on other federated instances in searches that aren’t specifically for community@instance if they have at least one subscriber on that other instance. However, they’re visible to all local users regardless of whether there are subscribers. Setting up shop on an instance with a lot of users thus helps visibility. I think that this is legitimately a technical problem right now with both lemmy and kbin that will have to be addressed. Maybe messages don’t need to go to other instances, but at least communities should – not a lot of traffic there. Or maybe high-vote/high-traffic threads should have a chance of going to other instances. Or maybe some entirely-new mechanism to help improve discoverability of new communities should be introduced – I don’t think that either the lemmy or kbin developers are adverse to new things being implemented to improve community discoverability, but I suspect that they’ve had other things that they’re busy with. Maybe in the meantime, someone will make an external website that tries to help users find interesting communities. This isn’t fixed now, but I suspect that it’s going to have to be. In the meantime, there’s presently a straightforward way to mitigate this if you’re a mod – create a user account on the most-populated lemmy and kbin instances and subscribe to your community there. You can also post to newcommunities@lemmy.world, and my guess is that someone may create another community or communities for trying to promote or do reviews of or whatever existing communities. Community discoverability needs work, but everyone’s in the same boat right now.

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    I’ve been trying to get an active mod to take over on the lemmy.world battlestations community, but despite my efforts posting in the lemmy.world support community which the admins have suggested doing for this exact issue there has been no change. https://lemmy.world/u/mandlar

    In general I find it pointless for there to exist a million empty communities even when the creators have good intentions. Most of them are sub communities of a broader category which only serves to unnecessarily split a community while there is barely traffic in the broader topic. You shouldn’t make a more specific topiced community unless the subject you want to discuss is getting burried in overwhelming traffic of the broader community.

    • AnonymousLlama
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      The splitting the content comment is fair, I’ve seen heaps of random subreddits created when the main one still doesn’t have lots of content. Why fragment the experience, articles posted will now probably have less engagement and not be as exciting.

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      But there’s people out there who want to be “top mod” and do zero work. It’s like opening a lemonade stand but the only employee is a CEO that works from home.

      They think since a community on reddit existed with that name, all they have to do is make a Lemmy community with the same name.

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      One of the worst things about Reddit was that you could make a subreddit for anything but peeling away any amount of users from the “main” sub was next to impossible and forget about new user traffic without having the “default” name. Therefore the mods of that sub become the defacto admins of that topic on reddit until they piss off enough people to really get an alternative moving. Many different subreddits were actively fucked up by bad moderation but users kept dog piling in because it had the basic name you would think to search for, i.e. “television” or “videos” or “movies” or what have you. That name is real estate on reddit because no one else can have it, and that keeps horrible mods entrenched.

      I think we should encourage several hubs and stop worrying about “splitting” communities. We have the benefit here of letting different communities grow under the same name to avoid that situation where a shitty mod team gets unchallenged ownership. No one else could make a /r/sandiego, so they never shook that real estate free from its horrible mod. Here? That’s not an issue.

      For example, one of Lemmy.world’s biggest communities was locked by the head mod and forced to a different instance to join with another community. Without input from the lemmy.world users. It’s still sitting there in the communities list, locked, but high up on subscribers. Meanwhile the instance it was moved to is moderated much more strictly. Admins over there heavily “curate”; remove any post they don’t think are worthy enough to be posted.

      I think that community should be unlocked and a new moderator should be allowed to take over, so there’s a different version of that community on a different instance, then people can have a choice between what type of moderation they want to exist under.

      Edit: !android@lemmy.world

      Edit2: Reworded this mess for clarity

      • @WillfulBedder@lemmy.world
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        Is it the android community you’re referring to? As I believe that is run by the same moderators as was on the original subreddit, which is a shame.

        I don’t feel like transplanting the exact same leadership / moderator teams as was on Reddit is always the best idea and some element of choice is important.

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          Bro we just got this space where no corporate overlords are dictating what we do. Can you not ask for corporate overlords to dictate what we do wtf is wrong with you?

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          There is no global authority to decide whether they are “allowed” or not. By design.

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        Pruning is an important step.

        It would be insane for admins to say that sub that lasted a month gets to just stay locked forever

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        Federation directly addresses this. If there’s a locked community, or a fake community on some instance, make another elsewhere. There will be some growing pains, but eventually people should migrate to the community that best suits their interests and attitudes. It’s messy and more work than just taking the big corporate sponsored option, but that’s the nature of organic communities.

        There was another thread recently asking, “Do I need to subscribe to [community] on all these different instances?” Sure, that’s a great way to find the ‘best’ one for you. Or just sub the biggest, or the one on the biggest instance, and hope for the best.

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          I am not sure I understand. If I create a community on a different instance with the same name as a community somewhere else, how do those communities relate to each other?

          • Antik 👾
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            They don’t really but if you search for a community, let’s say “drumandbass” you will see all of those communities on all instances and subscribe to all of those. And if you don’t agree with how one is being run you can either help grow another one or star one on another instance from scratch.

    • Antik 👾
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      Mandler has not been active in a month. If you want any of the communities make a post there, tag me and I will add you as a moderator.

      • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        Hey, I guess the admins removed u/sabbah from top mod of c/worldnews because they permabanned people for disagreeing with their personal opinions…

        Figured you might want to know the new mods added them back already because they think sabbah is good at “conflict resolution”

        https://lemmy.world/comment/1397441

          • @grue@lemmy.world
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            Thanks!

            Now that I’m committed, I started looking around for inspiration to improve the community… and I’ve just realized that !fire@lemmy.ml exists and seems like it has effort being put into it, too. Womp, womp.

            I haven’t entirely decided where I stand on the whole “splitting communities is better/worse than having one canonical community for each topic” issue, but at the moment I’m at least leaning towards wanting to cooperate or complement, rather than compete. If anybody has advice about how to mod in such a way as to produce the best outcome for everybody interested in the topic instead of just trying to steal that community’s thunder, I’m all ears!

            (Alternatively, if folks want a place to talk about actual combustion instead of personal finance, I guess that option could be on the table too…)

            • @laverabe@lemmy.world
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              32 years ago

              fortunately the fediverse is much more liquid than reddit so no one really knows honestly what it will look like in a year. Right now it’s going through rapid change, and I think there will be a sort of equalization that will happen eventually.

              I was a mod early on in reddit’s creation and several subreddits used to group together and list each other each others sidebars to create an index of sorts. I think maybe having multiple communities across different servers, by the same name, but with different topics of interest could possibly serve to aid in more in depth discussions.

  • @WhoRoger@lemmy.world
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    Like, ok, but what’s stopping you from posting in those comms? You don’t need to be a mod for that.

    I’ve made a few comms, some took off, some didn’t…