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Looking for moderators for Sopuli's communities \ Etsitään moderaattoreita Sopulin yhteisöille (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by Lazycog@sopuli.xyz to c/meta@sopuli.xyz
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Hello Sopuli,

We have quite a few communities that have been abandoned / moderator has abandoned fediverse, so we are looking for moderators who would like to adopt some of these communities.

For the communities that we don't find any people to moderate we will add a sticky post with information on how to adopt these communities and hopefully redirect people to an active community that has a somewhat similar purpose/topic.

List of communities below:

Hei Sopuli,

Meillä on melko paljon yhteisöjä, jotka on hylätty / moderaattori on lähtenyt fediversestä, joten etsimme moderaattoreita jotka haluaisivat ottaa joitakin näistä yhteisöistä hoitaakseen.

Yhteisöihin, joihin emme löydä moderaattoreita, laitamme pystyyn postauksen jossa selitetään miten kyseisen yhteisön voi ottaa hoitaakseen ja ohjaamme postauksessa käyttäjät samankaltaiseen, aktiivisempaan yhteisöön.

Alla on luettelo yhteisöistä:

Active communities in need of moderators \ Aktiiviset yhteisöt jotka tarvitsisivat moderaattoreita:

Communities that subscribers wish would be more active \ Yhteisöjä joiden seuraajat toivoisivat olevan aktiivisempia:

Some of the following are active communities, but all of them would need moderation \ Jotkin seuraavista ovat aktiivisia yhteisöjä, mutta jokainen niistä tarvitsisi moderointia:

Then we had a user who made an account, made million communities but left shortly after \ Meillä oli käyttäjä joka loi miljoona yhteisöä ja lähti sitten menemään:

Finnish cities \ Suomen kaupunkeja:

Language learning \ kielten oppiminen:

Operating systems, programming, tech \ käyttöjärjestelmät, ohjelmointi, tekniikka:

Spirituality, Religion, Philosophy \ Henkisyys, uskonto ja filosofia:

Hobbies \ harrastukset:

Random \ satunnaiset:

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think the Fediverse/Lemmyverse needs a general solution or protocol to handle this situation. I would like to see a canned plan for what will happen to these communities if they aren't claimed, and a timeline for when.

I think there needs to be some means of archiving abandoned communities so that they become read-only, but are still indexed and searchable on the fediverse (there might be perfectly good information and history that we want to preserve for future denizens of the Fediverse (fedizens?).

Then in the future, if someone comes along and tries to make a new community with the same name on the same instance, either:

  1. The old community gets revived under new management, or
  2. The old community posts remain read-only, perhaps all old posts get "versioned" or "generationed" in some way so that it's clear they happened under prior management, but are included in the history of the new community that is "masking" its name.

I like some version of option 2, personally.

The problem of random communities coming and going over time will never end for lemmy, and for the future of the fediverse I think it's important we come up with a solution that doesn't involve either making ad-hoc requests for new leadership or deleting the communities entirely.

Just my two cents, thanks again for your efforts!

Edit: I notice some of these communities are literally empty. I feel like those should just be autodeleted after a certain amount of time. It's basically the same as if the mod never made it.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Very good write up, and I mostly agree.

I'm not part of lemmy development and haven't closely followed Pyfed development but I believe there has been some discussion around this. Especially since some communities that are indexed on sopuli are from instances that have shut down.

The reason why we went with "if anyone wants to pick up a community, here they are" and "we are adding a permanent redirect to abandoned communities" is because we noticed that some communities are indeed low activity but "high" subscriber count. We kinda wanted to offer new users answers for their searches: e.g. if they search for a soccer community - that currently exists but is empty - they find the community with a redirect to football community.

But you are right that this isn't a very good permanent solution and I am also hoping for a native lemmy feature for this problem.

Thanks for the thoughts! We'll have to discuss the possibility of just deleting the empty communities like you suggested.

Edit: we decided to remove some dead communities entirely and we'll further discuss which ones could be just deleted.