How do I transfer ownership of my community?
I'm on Piefed, and the community, ![email protected], is on Lemmy.
I've tried transferring ownership via using the actual Piefed.world website, but whenever I try, I only get these options:
Syndicated from the fediverse. Read and engage on the original instance.
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In the sidebar of the community, hit the settings button and from there, one of the settings pages is for moderators. That is where you can appoint new moderators or resign from being a moderator.
One catch is that since this is a lemmy community on a remote server, your piefed account probably doesn't have the correct permissions to be able to modify the moderator list. You likely need an admin (like @[email protected]) to elevate your piefed account to being an "owner" of the community before you can start modifying the modlist.
Yeah.
I can see the list, but all it shows me is this:
does being the sole mod in a community make you owner?
i guess piefed doesn't take the top mod structure lemmy uses into account at all?
Ensuring that there is at least one local mod of a remote community that is designated as an owner is something that has been noted and discussed on codeberg. I'll see if I can try to get that in for the 1.7 release. It hasn't been much of an issue historically because most of the active users were on piefed.social, so it was easy for us to fix. However, as MAU grows elsewhere, this is becoming more important.
As for compatibility with the lemmy mod structure, it does work differently. You would have to ask rimu about why it was set up this way, but PieFed has the moderator and owner statuses:
AFAIK, there isn't any kind of check for remote lemmy communities to see if a local owner of a community is able to remove a remote moderator by the lemmy moderator rules. So, I guess theoretically, a piefed community owner could remove a remote lemmy moderator, but then that removal is rejected by the community's home instance. The modlist should be refreshed for remote communities as part of the daily task IIRC, so the effect would be temporary.
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
Is there anything that can be done, then?
Even if the instance admin just took the ownership of the community, and transferred it to my Lemmy account, which is also a mod?
Hey, sorry for the delay, I've been traveling. I just made your PFW account owner of the community.
Thax very much