As per title. I’ve been wondering about this. How can we help when someone managing a community/instance can’t find help locally, for whatever reason? Something like an “help wanted” board. Even if it’s for one month, three months, etc.
I’ve been an admin for a 8-9k+ users Discord server for years, but I love Lemmy so much I’d like to see if I can be somehow useful here. I don’t think I’m power tripping at all, but have zero tolerance for harassment, racism or sexism, bigotry and honestly want to keep neocons and bigots/trolls out of Lemmy as long as it’s humanly possible. Whenever in doubt, I generally abstain from using any moderation power and talk with other mods/users to find the best course of action.
The situation I imagined in the first paragraph did happen to me. Managing the server alone was draining my mental health, and I couldn’t find anyone to help with all I had to do. Then someone wrote to me, we had lengthy discussions about the rules and philosophy of the server and we’ve been co-managing it together for years. Lemm.ee closing down made me think about “how to help where and when it’s needed”?
I’m posting in this community in hope that other users may be wondering about it and may find any answer useful.
[Multiple edits, original post written quite late, judging from most replies, I failed to phrase correctly what I had in mind]
mbin has an “abandoned” tab when you search communities. does lemmy have something like that?
I’m wondering if the fediverse in general (but especially Lemmy) would benefit from some kind of “fediverse help wanted” board for moderators, donations, technical help, etc.
edit: People who run a Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed/etc instance might be hanging out in the Matrix chat room for the software they are running; that might already serve this purpose.
@lemm.ee
Ironic.
Thank you for offering, some communities might ask you for help!
Personally I tend to try to find active members who are known to be positive in the community before reaching out to them and offering them a mod position. It’s easier for them to mod if they’re already invested in the community.
I suppose that’s the best way indeed. But I thought it wouldn’t hurt, in cases where no one could be found, for people who are slowly burning out to know that others may be available for helping, even for a small time, while they recover !
What are your favourite communities here? Are you an active member? If the mod team seems small or inactive maybe try messaging and asking?
I think lemm.ee is shutting down for lack of mods, if I saw correctly? Maybe you could help there and prevent that.
It’s unfortunately too late. It is their final decision.
Damn, that’s a shame.
admins actually, they said alot of them burned out and left lemme and they cant find enough.
Lemm.ee is shutting down from lack of admins, apparently.
Yes. Ask.
