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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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[–] ananas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

!cplusplus@sopuli.xyz should probably be deleted and/or merged into https://programming.dev/c/cpp

I was hoping to get some Finnish C++ forum active there to differentiate, but since mine is the only post, I don't think it's going to catch on.

Though I don't mind taking the mod hat if there is interest for Finnish C++ forum at some point.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Good idea!

You could take over the community if you want, make a redirect post similar to the ones we have made in now-locked communities towards the programming.dev one, and lock the community for time being. You can unlock it anytime if there's a need or you have an idea for the community.

Would that sound good?

[–] ananas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, I'm not sure about how exactly it works just yet but if that's what has been done with other communities, that sounds good to me.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Awesome! I'll make you a mod there and then you'll see some options such as "only moderators are allowed to post", which is kind of "locking the community (you don't have to do this if you don't want to).

You can almost just copy-paste the post on !arab@sopuli.xyz, post it in your community, and make it a "sticky" (I believe in lemmy-web-ui it's called "feature post in community").

You are free to do as you will though. It can be open for e.g. finnish c++ discussion too and still have the stickied post to redirect general discussion to the active programming dev community.

Edit: appointed you as a mod now

[–] ananas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago

All right. Thanks, I'll set it up right away!

[–] late_night@sopuli.xyz 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I was going to offer to moderate French but I see there are two other communities with the same purpose of teaching French (https://sh.itjust.works/c/maydaylapprendre and https://lemmy.world/c/french). So maybe this one could be merged?

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I also see this as a good idea, but I checked out these communities and their mods seem to be also somewhat inactive on lemmy and there isn't any more activity than on the sopuli one. While lemmy.world and SJW are really well administered instances that will deal with any issues quickly, I'd like to consider some options first maybe?

I would have never found the first one with the community name, so I'd like to ask if you happen to know any other communities like that on lemmy?

[–] late_night@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I see on the last post in the French community on sopuli, a user is redirecting to !forumlibre@jlai.lu, which is more active.

Next time, feel free to ask on !forumlibre@jlai.lu, it's quite more active than this community

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ohh missed that! Am I completely wrong thinking that forumlibre is just a french speaking community for everything? Wondering how they would like us redirecting to them.

I mean we do have !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz that also has french learners. This community was meant as a catch-all language learning community with more activity for languages that don't necessarily have an active community yet on lemmy. We can redirect there too if we don't have a dedicated and active space yet!

Unlike the reddit equivalent !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz also accepts language specific questions and talk.

[–] late_night@sopuli.xyz 1 points 54 minutes ago

You're right, the other communities have indeed a different goal or are inactive. I should have looked more thoroughly in the first place

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 3 points 21 hours ago

That would be a good idea!

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know what the !mead@sopuli.xyz was supposed to be about but if it is meant to be about making mead it is unnecessary because there is already !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

We agreed that it should stay general for everything beer, mead, wine ... until there is really demand for splitting it to neache community's.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah you are right, and the homebrewing one has nice original content too!

Think we can delete the mead one since it's completely empty and quite niche.

Thanks for brining this to our attention.

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Glad to help in my community it isn't that active but still better than that one.

I unfortunately don't have that much time for it now but it is still moderated (even if it seems dead for some time). That's what's happens when me (the mod) goes biketouring for half a year.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No need to have constant flow of content, as long as you guys have a community to go to and like to post to, it's all good!

Glad to hear and woah, that sounds pretty cool, hope you had a good time! Sounds like the moderation is active enough :)

I doubt your community will ever attract a lot of bad actors and if something pops up we know that there are other eyes on the community and we can help. If you are not available it's not the end of the world :) it's the communities that have no eyes and the mod has clearly left fediverse that we worry about. Anyone can just post anything there.

Edit: words

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Make a post there and it's all yours!

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

!python@sopuli.xyz should probably be consolidated towards !python@programming.dev.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

This one was easy and clear, thanks! We added a sticky post to the community for redirecting users.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

So I guess one should have a Sopuli.xyz account to be a moderator huh ??

Because I am kind of interested in moderating tech-based communities (esp. Privacy ones)

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Actually I'm willing (Not trying to pick a fight here) but hey let's see if that community gets integrated

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It seems like there are quite a few privacy communities that are significantly more active on lemmy, we'll discuss redirection for privacy comm.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I am very interested in !collapse@sopuli.xyz as I am a geologist and understand the physics/material reality of the cliff the earth has irrevocably launched itself off of.

I would be a new moderator, and I know this might be a touchy one to start with, but this is a topic I find I am driven to understand lucidly to a point most other people can't handle thinking about because the reality is so hopelessly brutal.

Offer is open, I know I have lots of strong opinions and comment lots so I understand any reaction to this, but if no one else is interested I am willing.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sounds like the community is right up your alley. Make a post/comment there and we'll make you a mod!

Edit: just to add: we expect sopuli's instance rules to be followed and a good discussion environment. But I do believe you are up for it. Thanks for stepping up!

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Mi parolas esperanto iomete, tial mi povus moderigxi esperanto@sopuli.xyz 🫠 I often play TF2 so you know 🫣

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

esperanton*

Gxi estas akusativo. (Kaj mi ankaux jam ne povas bone paroli esperanton... Devus gxin lingvon usi pli)

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Ne en unu tago elkreskis Kartago, bonan ŝancon!... Or something, that's the best I could do with wikipedia at hand :)

Make a post in the two communities and I'll add you as a mod!

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

We'd be fine with redirect, but I'll wait until the discussion in the linked post comes to somekind of conclusion. It seems the fxomt might lock privacy@dbzero and we would preferably not redirect to a locked community :)

(we will probably redirect to more than one community because I personally follow a few and feel like if you only subscribe to one you'll miss out). The redirect is mostly for new users afterall!

Edit: seems like the discussion didn't end with locking that community on dbzer0, so we will probably mention it as well in the redirect post on sopuli.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

!privacy@programming.dev seems to have more active posters, but dbzer0 can probably be mentioned too

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah the whole privacy community consolidation topic seems prettty tough.

I think in the headline of redirect post we can mention programming.dev since it's picking up momentum, but we'll add all the active communities in post body so people can just follow them all if they want and want to keep up with all of the posts for now (i do that currently).

Thanks for your efforts with this blaze.

[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Voisin ottaa vaikkapa Estonian (joka on toinen äidinkieleni) ja Translator. Saako muuten yhteisöjen nimiä vaihtaa? Samalla muuttuisi tietenkin yhteisön tarkoitus, mutta tuo Translator on sellainen, että se ei kerro oikein mitään. Facebook (anteeksi ruma sana) on väärällään jotain käännösryhmiä, jossa ei-kääntäjät tarjoavat palvelujaan eikä sellainen ole mistään kotoisin. Minusta parempi yhteisö olisi Translation Studies eli käännöstiede, jossa saa keskustella kääntämisestä tieteenalana ja ilmiönä. t. opiskelen alaa.

English: I can take Translator (which I'd love to re-name to Translation Studies) and Estonian. I won't promise that the communities will get huge amounts of new members, but I can post some content to get things started. It ain't much but it's honest work!

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sopii! Laita molempiin yhteisöihin viestiä ja teen sinusta niihin valvojan.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'd be happy to take over !gai@sopuli.xyz. I hadn't realized there was a sopuli community for it, or I would have already been sharing some interesting articles there. I made a post here.

I'd also be happy to help as a moderator for !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz. I don't have as much to contribute there, but I've always enjoyed following that community. It might be better to have a lead mod there that is more active within the community though, so if anyone else wants that position I'd be happy to concede it to them. I have a comment here.

A lot of the smaller communities here sound really interesting as well, but are completely devoid of posts. I agree with some of the other comments here that I think those communities should be retired, let someone else restart them later if they're motivated to foster a new community.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Okilly dokilly, I'll add you as a moderator for those two communities.

[–] itszednotzee@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

oops, sorry I dropped off the face of the earth. I was meaning to add another mod on anarchychess anyway since I'm not that active. !bocchitherock@sopuli.xyz needs a new mod as well, i'll go make a post

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Ah sweet, that'd be nice. Hope you are okay and hope you don't mind a new mod on anarchychess.

Would appreciate if you can look for mods on the comm itself as this post was mostly triggered by increase in reported activity.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Between these, I can take on the Termux community!

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised there are this many communities on Sopuli.

I checked out 10 that I might be interested in and none of them had posts during the last year, some of them never.

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[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Listaan on muuten lipsahtanut pieni kirjoitusvirhe: !NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz ohjautuu väärin koska lukee NiceNemes

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Hyvin huomattu, kiitos! Korjaan.

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