What happens when a community in Lemmy is left without a moderator?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/443281

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/443118

I am excited about the idea of Lemmy growing and having more and more active users.

In my case, the most visited subreddit was r/chess, and I have tried to promote the use of https://lemmy.world/c/chess@lemmy.ml

This is the lemmy chess community with the most subscribers, however I saw that it has no active moderator, the previous one corresponds to a deleted account. I see that this can be a significant obstacle to adoption, what can be done in these cases?

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7 Comments

Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (5 replies)

Request the admin make you a moderator

Ipodjockey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Does that mean the admins have the power to remove you as a moderator?

Who holds them accountable?

Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y

Absolutely, its their hardware or money running the server instance. Accountability comes in the fact that you can nuke your community and move instances whenever you want to

ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 3y

Presumably instances whose admins behave unpopularly will see their users move to other instances. You sort of choose your own admins, that way.

SheeEttin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Your ability to create and federate your own instance.

randombit@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y

The community. If an instance admin goes rogue, the community can be restarted at another instance or a new instance.

OptimusPrime@lemmy.moonling.nl · 3 pts · 3y

The owner of the instance can re-assign moderators.

Ipodjockey@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
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