Fedigrow @lemm.ee threelonmusketeers @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities?

Most instances have a community where users can request the moderator role for inactive or unmoderated communities.

As each instance names these slightly differently, I thought I'd create a thread to collect as many as possible.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
lemmygrad.ml
lemmy.sdf.org
[email protected]
feddit.nl
jlai.lu No community, but a thread here
beehaw.org
slrpnk.net
midwest.social
infosec.pub
aussie.zone
reddthat.com
lemmy.today
feddit.dk
lemmings.world
feddit.it
startrek.website
mander.xyz
lemmy.one
ani.social
ttrpg.network
szmer.info
lemmy.eco.br
[email protected]
discuss.online
lemmy.kya.moe
lemdro.id
lemmy.nz
[email protected]
[email protected]

Please comment below with equivalent communities and I'll add them to the list.

Note: When requesting the moderator role for a community, it is best to do so from a local account (same instance as the community) rather than a remote account. Many people (myself included) have encountered federation issues with some moderation actions when using a remote account.

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I'd suppose the most appropriate place for lemmy.cafe would be [email protected]
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Jlai.lu is a very small French instance, in order to coral our limited number of users towards more active communities the admins had made the decision a while ago to put into a deep sleep state any inactive community. They very recently created this dedicated thread where one can request the reopening of any 'sleeping' community: [Meta] Demande pour les réouvertures de commu + modération

A side-note and a suggestion for anyone considering requesting moderation role of an abandoned community on any instance:

Based on my personal experience requesting the [email protected], I would suggest anyone to create an account on the concerned instance to administer that community. I can say that the admins at sh.itjust.works made no issue giving me full access to the community after I explained what I wanted to do with it, but even as a the new moderator with full access I had constant bugs and issues trying to do my job from my main account from my own instance (I'm French, so I was administrating that community from my jlai.lu account). All those issues, 100% of them, vanished the moment I created a new user account on the same instance I was trying to manage and gave that account full moderation role. I've also read other similar accounts of people facing bugs when they tried to moderate a community from a different instance.

A warning that may be worth adding in the OP?
- They very recently created this dedicated thread where one can request the reopening of any ‘sleeping’ community
  
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  I would suggest anyone to create an account on the concerned instance to administer that community.
  
  Thanks, that's an excellent point. I know Blaze and I (and probably others) have accumulated a suite of alt accounts because of moderation issues from remote accounts. I've added a note to the OP.
  
  Super, thx!
  
  Thanks, that’s an excellent point. I know Blaze and I (and probably others) have accumulated a suite of alt accounts because of moderation issues from remote accounts. I’ve added a note to the OP.
  
  Indeed
FYI: comm_revival is not an official dbzer0 comm. It is more of an "advertisement" of dead communities, or an archive.

For dbzer0 you either request it on [email protected] or the matrix chatroom.

Great post, OP! I'll repost this to comm_revival if you do not mind 😄
- comm_revival is not an official dbzer0 comm
  
  request it on [email protected]
  
  Thanks! Updated.
  
  I’ll repost this to comm_revival if you do not mind.
  
  I do not mind at all! Though keep in mind that as we update this post, changes wouldn't be reflected in a reposted version. Linking back to this post might be better long-term.
feddit.org has [email protected]

A community for adopting communities without active moderators or finding new moderators for your community.
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Looks like sopuli.xyz has used [email protected] for this.
[email protected]

Or PM an admin :)
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I had the same question but wasn't sure of how I should go about asking. Thanks for this!
- You're welcome! Do you know if moistcatsweat has an equivalent magazine?
I don't think discuss.tchncs.de has a dedicated community for this, but [email protected] is the meta community for the instance.
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[email protected] probably best for blahaj
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