You are now the "top" moderator of both communities. I did not remove the existing moderator, but you have the power to remove them if you wish. They have no visible activity for 2 years, so I do not think they will notice any changes.
The hard part is that there is no good way to confirm whether an account or a community is truly abandoned. Any criteria for determining what gets removed is going to have a significant false-positive rate and piss off a lot of people.
I'm not sure there's much to gain from a mass removal, anyway. Lemmy.world has several thousand communities, most of which are pretty quiet, but the mere existence of those communities isn't causing any issues as far as I know.
Effectively, yes. Lemmy.world hosts a local version of it, as do some other instances (lemmy.blahaj.zone hosts a Photon front-end at phtn.lemmy.blahaj.zone for example). But you can also go to phtn.app, which I believe is run by the Photon devs, and log into any Lemmy instance from there.
Content you delete from public view remains visible in your own feed, and you as a user cannot change that AFAIK. Maybe some app or browser frontend has the option to hide self-delete content?
Admins can "purge" a post or comment from the database, which would do what you are asking. But we try to avoid purging things if it isn't absolutely necessary. It's an irreversible process and a ripe opportunity for us to break things.
Use the alternate web UIs, like p.lemmy.world for example. Some of them allow you to perform moderation actions on any user regardless of whether they have interacted with the community.
You have to toggle that in your Lemmy account settings. For example:
It's yours now. Thanks for stepping up to take on an abandoned community.
You are now the "top" moderator of both communities. I did not remove the existing moderator, but you have the power to remove them if you wish. They have no visible activity for 2 years, so I do not think they will notice any changes.
Yep. They had to migrate to fedinsfw.app. The new community OP is looking for is !askfedinsfw@fedinsfw.app.
Done. It's yours.
Done. The old mod looks like they haven't been active in 3 years.
Done. You are the new mod.
You got it. Done!
The hard part is that there is no good way to confirm whether an account or a community is truly abandoned. Any criteria for determining what gets removed is going to have a significant false-positive rate and piss off a lot of people.
I'm not sure there's much to gain from a mass removal, anyway. Lemmy.world has several thousand communities, most of which are pretty quiet, but the mere existence of those communities isn't causing any issues as far as I know.
Done. Enjoy!
It's yours. Thanks for volunteering.
Effectively, yes. Lemmy.world hosts a local version of it, as do some other instances (lemmy.blahaj.zone hosts a Photon front-end at phtn.lemmy.blahaj.zone for example). But you can also go to phtn.app, which I believe is run by the Photon devs, and log into any Lemmy instance from there.
Content you delete from public view remains visible in your own feed, and you as a user cannot change that AFAIK. Maybe some app or browser frontend has the option to hide self-delete content?
Admins can "purge" a post or comment from the database, which would do what you are asking. But we try to avoid purging things if it isn't absolutely necessary. It's an irreversible process and a ripe opportunity for us to break things.
Done. FlyingSquid has been removed, and your lemmy.world account is now the top mod.
Use the alternate web UIs, like p.lemmy.world for example. Some of them allow you to perform moderation actions on any user regardless of whether they have interacted with the community.
It's all yours.
That community is yours now. Enjoy!
Stop with the self-promotion spam. This is at least the fifth account and fourth community you have used this week to promote this project.
Done. Enjoy your new communities.
No word from @2910000@lemmy.world. I went ahead and added you as a mod.