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Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (sh.itjust.works)
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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.

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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[–] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd suppose the most appropriate place for lemmy.cafe would be !general@lemmy.cafe

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 !journaling@sh.itjust.works, 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?

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They very recently created this dedicated thread where one can request the reopening of any ‘sleeping’ community

Thanks! Added.

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.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago

Super, thx!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

feddit.org has !waisenhaus@feddit.org

A community for adopting communities without active moderators or finding new moderators for your community.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 !div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com or the matrix chatroom.

Great post, OP! I'll repost this to comm_revival if you do not mind 😄

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

comm_revival is not an official dbzer0 comm

request it on !div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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.

[–] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

!home@lemmy.zip

Or PM an admin :)

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Looks like sopuli.xyz has used !meta@sopuli.xyz for this.

[–] dawnslayer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had the same question but wasn't sure of how I should go about asking. Thanks for this!

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

You're welcome! Do you know if moistcatsweat has an equivalent magazine?

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think discuss.tchncs.de has a dedicated community for this, but !tchncs@discuss.tchncs.de is the meta community for the instance.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

!main@lemmy.blahaj.zone probably best for blahaj