cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/443281

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?

  • ipodjockey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Does that mean the admins have the power to remove you as a moderator?

    Who holds them accountable?

    • BigFig@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Absolutely, its their hardware or money running the server instance. Accountability comes in the fact that you can nuke your community and move instances whenever you want to

    • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Presumably instances whose admins behave unpopularly will see their users move to other instances. You sort of choose your own admins, that way.

    • RandomBit@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      The community. If an instance admin goes rogue, the community can be restarted at another instance or a new instance.