I gave you the mod role in [email protected]. Enjoy! :-)

Do you have a plan for what you will do with the community? Not to be rude, but you already mod over 50 communities and many of them are inactive or empty. We’re a bit hesitant to consolidate large numbers of communities under a single user.

Would you consider editing the display name of the community to include ‘[Dormant community]’?

Done.

I locked the community and pinned an explanatory post. Best of luck to the slrpnk community!

As an aside, these situations always make me a little nervous that I’m going to step on a user’s toes. The mod account having no visible post/comment/vote activity does not confirm that they are truly gone from Lemmy. They may have become a lurker.

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We’re aware. AFAIK, nobody has expressed interest in taking over that community and bringing it back to life.

@[email protected] would you like to volunteer?

That’s odd. It seems like your post didn’t federate from feddit.org to lemmy.world for some reason. There does not appear to be significant federation lag between the two instances at the moment.

It’s visible now. I pasted the feddit.org URL into the search bar on lemmy.world, which forces lemmy.world to fetch the post.

Your original post: https://feddit.org/post/4049097
Now visible on lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/21190240

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Try using the Photon front end. For adding and removing mods, it is more flexible than the standard lemmy-ui front end.

https://photon.lemmy.world/c/libros/settings/team

Lemmy.world did defederate from exploding-heads, but never defederated from hilariouschaos as far as I know. When hilariouschaos appeared the admin team discussed it and decided to take a wait-and-see approach. First, some of the more problematic exploding-heads users seemed to be gone. Second, by that time Lemmy had more blocking options for users to curate their own feeds, so instance-level defederation seemed less urgent.

We will discuss it again. Personally, it’s been a while since I have peeked over the fence to see what they’re up to over there.

I added you as a mod. The existing mod has no activity for over a year. Note that, since your account is on a different insurance than the community, you will not receive community reports. It’s a known bug in Lemmy. I recommend making a lemmy.world alt and adding it to the community mod team, then checking it occasionally for reports.

I left the original mod in place in case they come back. I noticed Tolstoy said they would be contacting the old mod.

@[email protected], mentioning you here for transparency in case you come back to Lemmy and wonder what happened.

That’s bizarre. I have not experienced that with the stock lemmy-ui in Firefox, nor in the Summit app on Android. You have only seen it in Jerboa, correct?

Done.

Yes, that is a problem. No single solution is perfect, and VPN blocks are only one tool in the toolbox. Every instance is different, and admins pick the tools that they think will work best for their situation. VPN blocking happens to be a tool that seems to have worked well for lemmy.world.

Instances that lack moderation and have a history of being used by trolls tend to get the nuclear option: they are defederated by the big Lemmy instances. That’s not ideal at all, but the tool set for Lemmy moderation is very limited right now.

Short answer: no.

I don’t mean to be rude. The desire to use VPNs is completely understandable. Unfortunately, VPNs were being abused in ways that were detrimental to the community here. Last year there were several waves of really grotesque troll posts (CSAM, scat porn, etc.) on lemmy.world and other instances. Blocking VPNs was one of the responses that was effective in stopping those posts. The admin team has no interest in backtracking at this time.

You have moderation here

We have unpaid volunteers donating their spare time. Nobody wants to spend their lunch break purging CSAM posts from some troll. And no users want a post to stay up for hours because the mods were asleep, at work, or otherwise not watching the Lemmy feed. (That actually happened, and is what drove me to donate some of my time here.) If law enforcement ever does come knocking, this instance doesn’t have the money or time to mount a defense.

I wish things were different. This is the unfortunate reality that this particular instance has faced. Other instances may feel differently.

The mod (@[email protected]) does look inactive.

Is there another community you think users should be directed to?

In this case the mod is an active Lemmy user. They have posts and comments within the past day. It should be up to them to decide if they want to leave their community open, or lock their community and direct users elsewhere.

@[email protected] mentioning you here since it’s your community being discussed.

Goodbye

This has been happening to me and others as well, across multiple Lemmy instances. The common thread seems to be Firefox. I assume something changed in a recent Firefox update?

If anyone figures out the root cause, I would love to hear about it.