How to request community from an inactive mod?

I am a huge car enthusiast and I moderate several car related communities on Reddit, but ever since the blackout and one of Reddit's biggest mistakes, I've been moving to Lemmy and the Fediverse but I would really like to help moderate c/cars - !cars@lemmy.world

It's moderator although has been inactive for months, is the sub really lost or am I missing something that I haven't learned about yet? Anyway I can request the community?

!cars@lemmy.world

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7 Comments

sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 2y (3 replies)

There was such a rush for claiming/creating communities before the user base was large enough to support them. I'm surprised that there aren't more of these issues, and also surprised that there isn't a procedure in place for addressing the issue. Good luck in tracking this down.

TheArstaInventor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

That is terrible, so many of the communities I'd actually like to moderate and even move from Reddit (as I mod some of them on Reddit) to here is impossible as many of them are taken by inactive mods.

ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I have seen Admins assign new mods to dead communities with inactive mods. You may need to @ an Admin and explain why you should be a mod of the community in question.

TheArstaInventor@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I see, I will try that thank you

CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cars@lemmy.world

TheArstaInventor@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

Ty for letting me know! Just edited it

EDIT: Oh, it's a bot 😅

ProdigiousFrog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I requested taking ownership of !mealtimevideos@lemmy.world a few months ago. Posting a request in this support forum is hit or miss, but sending an email to info@mastodon.world (to create a support ticket, as it says in the sidebar) about it got a response from an admin quite quickly, so I'd recommend that route.