Submitted 9 months ago by TheArstaInventor@lemmy.world to support@lemmy.world
I am a huge car enthusiast and I moderate several car related communities on Reddit, but ever since the blackout and one of Reddit’s biggest mistakes, I’ve been moving to Lemmy and the Fediverse but I would really like to help moderate c/cars - lemmy.world/c/cars
It’s moderator although has been inactive for months, is the sub really lost or am I missing something that I haven’t learned about yet? Anyway I can request the community?
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cars@lemmy.world
Ty for letting me know! Just edited it
I requested taking ownership of !mealtimevideos@lemmy.world a few months ago. Posting a request in this support forum is hit or miss, but sending an email to info@mastodon.world (as it says in the sidebar) about it got a response from an admin quite quickly, so I’d recommend that route.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
There was such a rush for claiming/creating communities before the user base was large enough to support them. I’m surprised that there aren’t more of these issues, and also surprised that there isn’t a procedure in place for addressing the issue. Good luck in tracking this down.
TheArstaInventor@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That is terrible, so many of the communities I’d actually like to moderate and even move from Reddit (as I mod some of them on Reddit) to here is impossible as many of them are taken by inactive mods.
ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I have seen Admins assign new mods to dead communities with inactive mods. You may need to @ an Admin and explain why you should be a mod of the community in question.