I’ve noticed a few communities where the mods haven’t ever contributed to the community (and its dead), or / and haven’t even posted anything to lemmy in years.
Just a FYI, you can ask Lemmy World admins to takeover ownership of communities community and actively moderate it, to help revive it
It seems there were a few people who simply grabbed the community names when Lemmy grew, and had to plans to contribute to them.
Some of the communities that were affected , I’ve seen have a lot of potential (like some of the larger linux distros).
To clarify, the mod would need to be on your instance to request to mod a community on your instance, right? Or no?
Something I’ve always wondered.
Like I’m sure I can only create a community on dbzer0 (and have done). But what about adopting a community?
I don’t have any in mind, I’m merely curious.
You can make an alt account, as long as you’ll get notifications from it.
You’d just apply with your main account and name your alt. Both can be moderators, but afaik only the one on instance gets notified of reports properly.
This works better if your main is from a recognizable instance.