cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/443118

I am excited about the idea of Lemmy growing and having more and more active users.

In my case, the most visited subreddit was r/chess, and I have tried to promote the use of https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

This is the lemmy chess community with the most subscribers, however I saw that it has no active moderator, the previous one corresponds to a deleted account. I see that this can be a significant obstacle to adoption, what can be done in these cases?

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[–] Brunbrun6766 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Request the admin make you a moderator

[–] Ipodjockey 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Does that mean the admins have the power to remove you as a moderator?

Who holds them accountable?

[–] Brunbrun6766 9 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, its their hardware or money running the server instance. Accountability comes in the fact that you can nuke your community and move instances whenever you want to

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Presumably instances whose admins behave unpopularly will see their users move to other instances. You sort of choose your own admins, that way.

[–] SheeEttin 3 points 1 year ago

Your ability to create and federate your own instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The community. If an instance admin goes rogue, the community can be restarted at another instance or a new instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The owner of the instance can re-assign moderators.