Hello guys,

I am not a member of sh.itjustworks, so I know I cannot become the new moderator/admin of any of your community.

That being said, I do have a question regarding one of your inactive community I have recently started trying to revive by posting regular content: https://sh.itjust.works/c/journaling

The community has seen no activity since its creation and I have yet to hear back form its admin I contacted a few days ago. Inactive or not, there are a couple hundreds members subscribed to it.

So far, I have posted 4 or 5 new topics and, even though modest, it seems to generate some activity. Which I find encouraging.

But before I invest any more energy into this, other users I have discussed the question with have suggested I should make sure I or someone else will be able to moderate the community if a troll, or worse, was to find their way inside.

Others have also suggested that it would be simpler to create a new community on my own instance (jlai.lu) and invite members of the existing one to join there. I could do that, but I am not a fan of the idea of creating a new community where there is already one existing unless there really is no other option. I mean, it’s not new communities we lack on Lemmy, it’s new and more active users in existing ones ;)

So, I am asking for your opinion: what do you think would be best if I was to spend more of my time posting in that community?

  1. Let the community stay apparently unmoderated, and keep posting new content as any other member can do (if that needs to be said, I have zero ego-related issue in being or not being ‘promoted’ moderator, or whatever) and keep my fingers crossed that no troll comes in to poop on the table. As a side-note I would not mind be able to refresh its look. Obviously, that is not essential.
  2. Still keep my fingers crossed, hoping that someday, maybe, someone from your instance may decide that it’s worth their time to moderate/admin it and request to take hold of it?
  3. Create a new community from scratch, on my own instance, and invite members of this one to join me there, by posting a message?
  4. Create an account on your instance, so I would be allowed to take charge of it if that was something you would agree is a good idea?

Frankly, I am not sure I want to create a new account just for that. I quite like what you’re doing here but I also have no issue with my present instance, quite the contrary. But I may seriously consider doing it if you have reasons to think that would be better/smarter.

I hope this makes sense.

If you have any questions I’ll do my best to answer them. I am also all ears if you have any suggestion.

Thanks

  • Libb@jlai.luOP
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    6 days ago

    Like I said, admins are defacto moderators for every community, so don’t worry too much about it. The previous mod hasn’t logged in in forever and I’ve already made you moderator for now.

    Well, thank you! That said, I must confess I’m a little bit disappointed as I hoped I would also get a six shooter, with that sheriff badge :p

    More seriously, a big thx too for having unpinned the previously pinned posts. Like you noticed, they were indeed looking like a sore spot and were not making the most welcoming first impression.

    Otherwise it should be pretty much business as usual.

    That’s what I imagine, seeing how slowly things are moving around there and how niche the community is, I don’t imagine we risk any massive troll invasion (fingers crossed, all twenty of them).