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Is Lemmy.World going to do anything about community squatting? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I requested !fire (Financial Independence/Retire Early, for those who don't know.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Done

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks!

Now that I'm committed, I started looking around for inspiration to improve the community... and I've just realized that [email protected] 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...)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.