Hello everyone,

I joined this community yesterday because I stumbled upon a comment somewhere saying that it was inactive. I tried to post a bit, the posts gained some traction, it seems that you guys already have enough people to get the ball rolling.

Unfortunately, I’m already busy with posting to content to a few others of my communities, so if I may, I suggest that a few of you step in to moderate, and take some actions such as update the sidebar with other relevant communities, reach out to those communities to get your own community listed, cross-post relevant content, organize weekly threads, post some content every day, etc.

I say from the sidebar that @hsl@wayfarershaven.eu is the other mod, but I know from personal experience that he’s already quite busy with moderating !asklemmy@lemmy.ml.

That’s all for me, I hope you guys have a good day/evening/whatever it is on your side of the world!

Edit: The only requirements to do the jobs are the following

  • being willing to help the community grow
  • check if your current app/website interface supports mods tools (some of them do, but I don’t know exactly which ones)
  • timezones are quite flexible, the community is still small
  • in terms of security, just don’t use a very easy to guess password, and make sure you have an email address configured to reset your password if you ever got compromised (but to fair that’s not that different from what you might already be doing)
  • dresdenEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Heh, it’s funny, I just volunteered to mod a books related community just a minute or so ago.

    If there’s a need, I don’t mind helping with the moderation. Though, I am curious, you aren’t the admin of the instance or mod of this community, how can you select any mod?

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I won’t, and that’s the thing, I’m kind of bringing up the issue, but I have indeed *no power here * (obvious reference inserted)

      I just noted that before my posts, the newest ones from either from 2 days ago, or 4 days ago, and I thought that this community could probably use a bit more moderation/activity

      • dresdenEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        You mentioned one mod in your post, maybe mention the other one too, to get their attention.

          • dresdenEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Ah. If it was any other instance, it might have been possible to get admins to intervene, . But with lemmy.ml, devs are too busy with development these days. I doubt they have much time for these things.

              • dresdenEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Yeah, though he seems to be moderating lots of communities.

                • HSL@wayfarershaven.euMEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Most of those communities are tiny, sleepy, or generally already take good care of themselves and just need an occasional caretaker. !asklemmy@lemmy.ml is the only one that takes significant time.

                  • dresdenEnglish
                    3·
                    1 year ago

                    Yeah, I have noticed, that most of the people on lemmy are pretty good. There isn’t too much need to moderate the content. Ask Lemmy is probably one of the largest community on lemmy right now, it makes sense that it needs more time.