Someone’s account got banned by instance admins for mentioning they are 17. So you are right: no one is going to check!

Edit: it was on lemmy.world and nostupidquestions community IIRC

Awwsome! No problem at all. Long live Lemmy indeed!!

That plan sounds good and it should be absolutely no problem to transfer the moderation to you since it is on your instance and the mod has been inactive that long! Indeed go to the support community I mentioned and earlier and ask :)

No problem at all and good luck! Glad to have you in lemmy :)

PS. If you take over the community and want it to grow, here are some communities to get help with growing it: [email protected] and [email protected]

No worries! it’s confusing, I know.

Now, if you can tell the community name we can help you more.

Or if you prefer not to say then you need to figure out the community’s instance it is on, so the server name that comes after the AT sign [email protected] and contact the Admins of that instance.

If the community is in your instance (so lemmy.world) it’s tad bit easier: go to [email protected] and make a post about volunteering to take over a community.

Good luck and don’t hesitate to msg me or ask me here for help!

Lemmy is still growing and niche communities will take time to grow. I’ve also advocated for combining communities until a community grows to be too big and could use splitting into smaller, more dedicated communities.

Don’t remember which community we decided to lock and put a permanent stickied post pointing to another community for similar content until that community would become too big and we could reopen the closed community once there was a need for it.

But yeah its tough right now with smaller communities and trying to get the ball rolling. If you haven’t already, join us at [email protected].

Wait, you mean the mod or the admin? The term “Admin” is used for system administrators of an instance. e.g. lemmy.world Admins are not necessarily mods of any communities, they own, upkeep, and administer the server. Mods are Moderators of a community and not often/necessarily Admins of the instance.

If Admin has disappeared/is inactive for too long the instance wont likely stay up long. If the said community is on your instance (so lemmy.world), the admins of lemmy.world are definitely active. They can transfer the moderation of the community in question to you.

Edit: don’t worry, you are not disrespecting me in any way. Better to ask your questions and ask for clarification. I know fediverse is confusing and that’s why I’m more than happy to help so please, don’t worry.

Edit2: to clarify just incase: “Instance” is a lemmy server, so lemmy.world is an instance and happens to be your instance. My instance is “sopuli.xyz”.

Rather than making a new community ask the admin of the instance the community is on that they transfer the community to you. There are more likely to be subscribers already and we can prevent fragmentation of communities

Yes this works on many instances. I believe some instances even have a dedicated community for this but I can’t remember any right now… I think if you search for “support” communities each instance pretty much has one and you can request to take over a community whos mod is inactive.