A good example is https://lemmy.world/c/documentaries
One of their mods, https://lemmy.world/u/sabbah, currently mods 54 communites despite only being on Lemmy for about a month and has never posted on c/documentaries (except for his post asking for people to join his mod team).
The other mod, https://lemmy.world/u/AradFort, has one post to c/documentaries and moderates 18 communities.
Does Lemmy.World have a plan to remove this kind of cancer before we start getting reddit supermods here too?
Edit: This comment shows how this is even more dangerous than I had thought.
Edit2: Official answer from LW admin is here
Final: Was going to create an issue for this on the Lemmy github, but I browsed for awhile and found that it had already been done. If anyone wants to continue the discussion there, here it is - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3452
Perhap we need another issue for the problem in the original edit (It being impossible currently to remove a 'founding' mod without destroying either the community of their account)
You do know that these instances communicate with each other, right? So even though you can create a community elsewhere people will look for a community, find it and the mod can essentially get a community under their control for free.
I for one am happy to just build up my small niche at c/daria.
Funnily enough i intuitively stayed away from squatted communities because of their lack of content.
I mean, yes, I understand what you are describing. But squatters have a mechanism for dealing with them that already exists.
This strikes me as more of a complaint specifically about power users, which I simply don't see a good way to solve.
I'm sorry, i don't understand what you mean or how that relates to the problem.
Perhaps one could impose a limit on how many communities one can make within a certain amount of time to slow down squatting.
I'm trying to understand the problem myself. If it's just people claiming multiple subs, why shouldn't someone in a smaller Instance somewhere claim a bunch of small subs?
Why shouldn't someone be able to claim 50 different, but related, niche subs?
If the problem is just squatting, that is separate, and the communities can be claimed after the mod goes inactive.