Comment on Some communities don't have actual mods, and you can request Lemmy World admins to take them over
cosmicrose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Just try to get hold of the existing mod first, at least as a courtesy. I made a community back when I first made my lemmy.world account, and later I made an account on a more niche instance, but I’m still around and check in often. The community I made is for a game I haven’t played for a little while but is active enough and hasn’t needed a lot of attention from me. Someone did request to be added as a mod there, which I do appreciate because they’re very active.
Overall I think it’s good to try and revive communities that haven’t had any attention in a while, I’d just have been really sad to log in one day to find that someone else took over. I’m happy to share.
Worth knowing that when I give a community to a new mod, I send a PM to the existing/previous mod (who appears to have been idle for months or years) - becuse nothing is necessarily permanent. If someone does come back, we’ll talk about reinstating them - hopefully working with the new mod because the more the merrier. I’ve only had one reply so far and it was to say “fair enough, let them have it” lol
Can only speak for lemmy.world, but figured it’s worth saying :)
auzy1@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That’s fair if they’re obscure, and if there are extra mods (or at least an attempt to get some). Like, I wanted to start c/plantarfascitis, and yeah, that would be dead.
However, some of the communities I took over, I took them over because there was only 1 mod, who had never even posted to that community, and they weren’t obscure topics (debian, redhat and Fedora actually)… And, the mod had never even posted
fedora and debian has so much happening constantly, it shouldn’t be dead for months… And I feel that if the mod hasn’t used them in 2 years, maybe its time to pass it on