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Community squatter? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/meta@lemm.ee
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So, I just kinda stumbled into one of the communities here (/c/casualconversation) and noticed it was empty, nothing in the sidebar, but figured it wouldn't hurt to make a post & try to help it out.

Well, uh, I happened to look at the moderator's profile and XeNoX has apparently been pretty busy making a load of communities here. Technically nothing wrong with that, and I'm not super familiar with lemm.ee's rules regarding this, but I thought it might be worth giving folks here a heads-up.

On the plus side, you have a bunch of communities already open that just need some more moderators & descriptions/rules set up, lol

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[-] sunaurus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, we have a process for taking over communities from inactive mods on lemm.ee.

Copied from our FAQ:

How can I take over an inactive community on lemm.ee?
  1. Make a post in the community you want to take over
  2. DM me (@sunaurus) 1-2 sentences about what your plans are for the community, and a link to the post you made in the community

If the community you want is really inactive, then I will be happy to pass ownership to you!

[-] aussiematt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, the nouveau "landed gentry" has arrived... :-)

[-] eagle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I also find it interesting that the mod has created a community named after himself. Also, maybe there could be a rule that only members that have been already registered for some time can create communities? This mod account is still relatively new.

[-] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Loads of them are just duplicates that already have established communities on other instances anyway, so there's not even a point to it other than someone trying to get their name on things.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Or confuse users and fill the community with garbage and ads.

[-] cestvrai@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It’s great for the resume!

Hiring manager: So, what qualifies you for this position?

Applicant: I moderate more than 200 lemmy communities?

Hiring manager: The hell is a “lemmy”???

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well has anyone sent /u/XeNoX a DM asking him what his plan is for these communities? Maybe he came from. Reddit and just wanted to create the communities and would be happy to make people mods if interested. Just wondering.

BTW/c/interestingasfuck seems to be in the same waggon

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

They've posted some explanations before, as have done other people who follow the same pattern. Basically it's to make it easier for people who are migrating into the feddi/lemmyverse to post stuff on the instance they land on, without having to deal with some of the quids of federation so abruptly.

AFAIK, the people who tend to create communities with that pattern (people, not bots) are more than happy to give them away to more responsible people since that's kind of the point.

Disclaimer: I've thought of doing the same for helping discoverability of the stuff I moved here from reddit for.

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