https://lemmy.world/u/Kombuchawow
really? Joined a few weeks ago and has created a ton of communities including general ones like “oracle” “dell” “litecoin”. A reddit powermod wannabe setting up camp here? Is this permitted / ok as per this server rules?
Everyone is allowed on the Fediverse. There is no mechanism for preventing it, nor can one be easily made. It’s the responsibility of individual users and communities to decide what they do and do not want to associate with. Via defederation.
The lemmy.world admin could kick them and dissolve the communities for abuse.
If the communities are indeed abandoned, people wanting to take the moderator duty will be appointed by Ruud in case he can’t communicate with the original mod, yes. That’s what we did to bring /c/Minecraft back.
Is there anyone that needs to be specifically reached out to in order to have mods appointed to an existing /c/?
One of the instance’s admins the community is on. Admins on instances are like reddit admins, they have the power to do whatever on their instance.
Poor guy. It’s all he has going for him, I bet. That and kombucha tea.
Squatting a place that communities call home is much more difficult with federated structures. It’s not really important if these spaces get claimed on one instance as the community could easily open up on another instance and call it home.
Additionally, I think some of his/her squatted communities are NSFW - and I’m not sure what the general stance of your admins is regarding that.
I feel like porn should be it’s own thing and not part of Lemmy. Like they have Mastadon for Twitter, Lemmy for Reddit, make Parakeet for porn or something like that. It could be cool, and the people who are hard-core about it can deal with the responsibility of moderating that stuff… away from here.
Are you aware that Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, … are not encapsulated systems but just tools to participate in federated communication? There isn’t really such a thing as “a post on Lemmy” and “a post on Mastodon” - the systems are transparently working together to form the Fediverse where posts can be read, commented on, blocked, reshared, etc. independent of the platform you are using.
(Or in simpler terms: Lemmy communities can be posted to from masto and so on.)
Ecapsulating types of content on the system-level is therefore not really practical and not meant to happen in the Fediverse. However, content can be more or less forced into a small number of instances that other instances/user can then choose to federate with or to block them.
Eh, the lemmy.world admins don’t put up with much fuckery like that. They’ve been busy what with the influx of traffic and lemmy version updates, but they’ll clean it up if it’s a problem. If nothing else, drop them a message and they’ll get to it eventually.
Besides, right now, it isn’t a big deal. As long as those c/s aren’t locked so that only the mod can post there, it’s good to have the destinations. Makes it where people searching have something to find. There’s been a few accounts across the various instances that set up the c/s, then advertised for actual mods to run them, and did so successfully.
Hell, I’ve put up tent stakes on a few myself, so that there’s a definite destination for some of my favorite reddit subs already available. If they take off, great, I’ll get help when needed. If not, no big deal.
But, yeah, if it’s someone camping, they’ll get booted eventually.
