Yep, main things I’m looking for:
- Been around a little bit
- Posted some comments in communities
- Modlog is not excessive (everyone screws up, sometimes mods are wrong)
Comment on Proposal and Discussion About Community Deletion
Eldritch@piefed.world 4 hours ago
If there is a community like that that you wish to take over, all you have to do is contact the admin team, and make the case that the creator is no longer active or contactable. They will usually turn it over to anyone actually interested in running it.
ieh@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Eldritch@piefed.world 1 hour ago
Yes, if it’s not something that’s already posted prominently somewhere it would be a good thing to add. I don’t think a lot of people realize this. I probably wouldn’t had I not experienced it myself.
There absolutely were a ton of people in 22 and 23 creating tons of communities to squat etc. Nothing wrong with creating one on another instance. But also no reason not to adopted as well.
ieh@lemmy.world 59 minutes ago
I’m currently working through active communities with no mods or no active mods, but those with open, old reports first. I’m posting in the communities seeking volunteers. It’s an ongoing project :)
I’m not posting outside of those communities because I’d prefer to attract volunteers who browse those communities. :)
And yep, absolutely - I first came here in 2023 in one of the large reddit exoduses. heh. And I see a LOT of accounts that created something still in use that stopped coming here after a while.
rosahaj@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
I may not have explained myself well enough. I am well aware of having moderatorship transferred by instance admins, having done so myself a couple of times over the past few years.
The intent of this post is to open a discussion about the impacts that mass-founding, and then subsequently abandoning postless communities has on the Fediverse, and what the best response to this would be.
Eldritch@piefed.world 1 hour ago
Advertised adoption.
ieh@lemmy.world 58 minutes ago
In progress :)