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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

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https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
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How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)

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PSA: Mods, please moderate from local accounts (feddit.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tl,dr: use a local account for moderation.

Hello everyone,

Just a quick reminder on the moderated federation topic: due to some bugs on Lemmy, reports won't federate to mod accounts on other instances (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4744). Even if they do (it works sometimes), closing them from a remote instance won't federate back to the instance where the community is located, staying in the admins' reports backlog.

From personal experience, some other actions like appoint another mod, pin/unpin threads do not work either.

While this stays an issue, please use local accounts to moderate.

That's all, see you around.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As you can guess, I'm well aware 😅 Thankfully most of the communities I mod are on Lemm.ee, so I only have to check that alt regularly, but that's indeed an issue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh so that's the reason! I thought you just liked having a fuckton of alts :D

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well, it's a bit of both:

I use alts as a way to have different feeds, feddit.org is the one for meta Lemmy discussions, lemmy.cafe for hobby topics, lemmy.zip for tech.
I also have moderation alts that I use to avoid being too obvious as a mod. I think it generally gives a bad vibe when the single and only poster in a community is also the mod, and also it shows me as a normal user when discussing with people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I prefer to let it show that I am a mod even when I was the only poster, felt more transparent about who I am. There is always the option to "Speak as moderator" on a comment you make in a community you mod. I use this option when I'm speaking in that role and not as another user who just so happens to be moderator.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Each approach work, as long as you feel comfortable with it!