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[email protected] has a mod with no activity in 3 years, can I take it over to babysit.

I've noticed a few communities where the mods haven't ever contributed to the community (and its dead), or / and haven't even posted anything to lemmy in years.

Just a FYI, you can ask Lemmy World admins to takeover ownership of communities community and actively moderate it, to help revive it

It seems there were a few people who simply grabbed the community names when Lemmy grew, and had to plans to contribute to them.

Some of the communities that were affected , I've seen have a lot of potential (like some of the larger linux distros).

When I go to refresh a page or go to the home page, I sometimes get a blank page, and it will not change, even if I click on another link. I am forced to reopen a new tab and go to the website again.

This is about the https://blorp.lemmy.world/ version only.

I am using Brave Origin. I am also using, but should not really make a difference, Debian 13 KDE.

I know the subject has come up before, just wanted to add another reason to the pile. Their instance has been setting its users' post timestamps 15 minutes into the future so they'll be parked at the top of the "New" sort order for longer.

Examples:

It's always possible that they've done this accidentally somehow though.

Let's preface with the fact that I'm a tech idiot, so please bear with me if I don't immediatly understand something or need an ELI5 ^^°

Why I'm asking: I moderate some communities that are basically dead. I tried to kickstart them years ago by posting tons of images, guides and other content that I'd originally posted on reddit and had since taken down before I nuked my account there, but I've run out of things to post on Lemmy long ago and submissions from regular users are scarce.

However, I also have a youtube channel with hundreds of videos that might give a little bit of life back to those communities if I started posting them here.

I just don't know whether this is actually a good idea, or if it might be a far too big strain on the servers for too little payoff. I'd like to breathe back life into the communities but NOT at the cost of indirectly hurting the Fediverse in any way.

...and I don't really want to just post links to those videos either, as I would prefer to NOT redirect users to a different site. The main goal is to get people to enjoy spending time here, after all.

Any help and information is greatly appreciated ;) thanks in advance.

The reason I am asking is because the admins don't remove spam and the version they are using is old.

Which make me ask, why even open an instance on the Fediverse if you are not going to keep it updated and spam free?

Over the long-term this has the potential to harm the Fediverse and take money out of the other Piefed instance admins that keep their instances updated and spam free.

When will .world admins start caring about the Piefed instance?

Hello! I created my account about six days ago, and I found a community with inactive moderator for three years. Can I request to take over it? I didn't find any requirement in the TOS regarding account age, but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks.

Hello! I found an unmoderated community at https://lemmy.world/c/linkinpark and I would love to take it over.

I tried to reach the owner but didn't get a response and his last activitywas three years ago. Can you help please?

Thank you!

I have identified the following Fallout and Elder Scrolls communities as having moderators who seem to have been inactive for over a year, and am requesting a moderator position or ownership of the following:
![email protected]
![email protected] ![email protected]
![email protected]
![email protected]
![email protected]
![email protected]
![email protected]
I am already the owner of the [email protected] and [email protected] communities, which are closely related to the elder scrolls series, and believe it would be best if they had at least one active moderator each.

Edit: I have applied for an account on lemmy.world (rosahaj) to make owner-moderator actions easier, and it would probably be best to wait for that account to be approved before doing any transfer, just to avoid doing so multiple times as Piefed doesn't have transfer capabilities for Lemmy.

Edit post? Error. Post something (even comments, or this post itself)? Error. Upvote something? Error.

Every now and then something will go through, but about 90% of the time it just throws up an error message. What's going on?

A few months ago, I joined the lemmy platform and made my account here on lemmy.world. One of the first things I searched for was a community of my hometown, Bern. I was happy to find one and subscribed successfully (seemingly) : https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Soon I noticed that not much is going on there and I tried to activate life there by making a few posts. I got a few votes, but no comments. This didn't trouble me too much; I just thought that there were just very few users in this community and that those were very passive. I kept on making posts of which I hoped that they could be motivating people to get into active communication, or to subscribe, if some non-member found this community.

Today I tried to subscribe to this community from piefed.social. I wanted to demonstrate a friend the interoperability of the two services lemmy and piefed. I couldn't find the Bern community, though.

Then I realized that the whole instance of the Bern community (feddit.ch) had been shut over 2 years ago! I tried to dig deeper into this, and finally found this post announcing the shutdown of the instance : https://lemmy.world/post/12995344https://lemmy.world/post/12995344

So my question is: is this community still alive and real? Or is it some zombie copy that I posted into, but it doesn't really live or it's not really visible or accessible to users on other instances, or maybe even on this instance? If so, shouldn't it be eliminated somehow?

Is this type of community banned?

I'm writing a bot. I just created a Backrooms community (![email protected]) and I want a bot to post links (as the user @[email protected]) to Backrooms-related content from the Backrooms wikis on a regular basis. (My current thought is daily, but I could be persuaded otherwise.) I might also add other features in the future like checking Kane Pixels' YouTube channel and automatically posting links to his new videos, but that's probably a later (if ever) kind of feature. I don't have any specific plans to add any kind of automod or mod tools capabilities at this point. (In fact, I don't have plans to make the bot account a mod in the community.) But I guess there might be a future when that happens.

I've read the Bot Usage and Guidelines section of the TOS and I've read this thread. It's all straightforward and I'm following all the rules and guidelines. My plan is not to put it on a cron for a while. I'll just run it manually every day for a while (until it proves itself) so that I can inspect what it does and if it misbehaves (not that I expect it to, but out of an abundance of caution) fix issues quickly to not impact users on Lemmy. I have also tested it on a locally-running Lemmy instance to ferret out any bugs or bad behaviors. It doesn't accept any commands from other users (well, except command-line arguments from me when I run it on my computer from a Bash prompt, but it doesn't take any actions in response to being @'d or DMed or anything). It DMs my user account when it encounters an error. I've been a professional software engineer for decades, so I like to think I know a little bit about what I'm doing. (Not that that means I'm incapable of producing bugs, but yeah.) And I cannot express in strong enough terms how cold and dead I will be in the ground before I put even a single solitary god-damned line of GenAI-generated code in any coding project I write. This is not some vibe-coded monstrosity. I wrought every single line using my brain, Go documentation, and Vim as God intended.

Oh, and I'll publish my bot's code on Codeberg or something under AGPL one of these days once it has demonstrated real-world success at doing what it does for a while.

All that to justify my use of "friendly" in the title of this post. Heh.

Anyway! To my question. My bot is being blocked by Cloudflare's CAPTCHA verification. You know, the thing specifically intended to repel bot traffic. Bots do seem to be explicitly allowed by .world's rules, so long as they follow all the rules. And I've definitely seen other bot accounts successfully posting. So my guess is that there's some good way to get my bot posting properly without being intercepted by Cloudflare. All that said, my searching hasn't revealed anything specific about how exactly that could be made to work. I'm hoping someone here can give me a lead or two, or just tell me why I'm wrong-headed about some basic assumption I'm making.

Thanks in advance!

Update: I got it working! Mostly the problem was that I wasn't caching my JWT token. Thanks again to MrKaplan.

Mod has been inactive for 3 years.

Hello! I was testing community ownership transfer via API and encountered an issue.

This account was previously the owner of the community https://lemmy.world/c/summittestcommunity. I transferred ownership of this community to my other test account @[email protected].

What I didn't expect is that the transfer went through on lemmy.world end but it did not seem to go through on the lemmy.ca end. So now lemmy.world thinks the community is owned by @[email protected] and lemmy.ca thinks the community is owned by @[email protected].

Neither account can change ownership of the community.

It's been about 4 hours since I made this change so it seems unlikely this is just a delay.

If someone could help me transfer ownership back to my account that would be appreciated. Thank you!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51561885

It seems to be for me, but looking for confirmation.

Any app (Interstellar, Thunder, Summit) doesn't.

I haven't tried another network or vpn.

If I try to load in browser, I get this error:

Error!

There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room.

Reddit has a feature where you can hide a post on upvote or downvote to ensure that youre always seeing content that you never saw before. Does lemmy have that feature?

I commented on a post a few days ago where a few of us lemmings were speculating as to the nature of a QoL bug that was affecting us.

I went to revisit the comment as I discovered another instance of the bug, but I got a "server error" when I tried to return. As it's still visible from my profile, I don't think the comment was removed.

I tried the link for the post itself and I got the same error.

I went to find the post in the community's feed via title and date and I don't see it.

I see easy links to check my comment for both my moderation history as well as that comment's moderation history, but the post itself remains a mystery to me.

I suspect there's a way to sift through a community's entire moderation history to poke around for that post, but I can't find it, plus for a bigger community it must be like finding a needle in a haystack.

Any way to do this, preferably easily?