What happens when a community in Lemmy is left without a moderator? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by oesezetao@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Every instance has to have an administrator or the instance can't exist. A community does not have to have a moderator since it only requires an instance. So if there's no mods for a community, the admin of the community's instance can either leave it unmoderated, do it himself, or find a new moderator.

If want to help grow a community and it has no moderator, you could ask the admin to volunteer. I mean volunteers are what open source and community is all about.

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