Most instances have a community where users can request the moderator role for inactive or unmoderated communities.

As each instance names these slightly differently, I thought I’d create a thread to collect as many as possible.

Please comment below with equivalent communities and I’ll add them to the list.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Jlai.lu is a very small French instance, in order to coral our limited number of users towards more active communities the admins had made the decision a while ago to put into a deep sleep state any inactive community. They very recently created this dedicated thread where one can request the reopening of any ‘sleeping’ community: [Meta] Demande pour les réouvertures de commu + modération

    A side-note and a suggestion for anyone considering requesting moderation role of an abandoned community on any instance:

    Based on my personal experience requesting the [email protected], I would suggest anyone to create an account on the concerned instance to administer that community. I can say that the admins at sh.itjust.works made no issue giving me full access to the community after I explained what I wanted to do with it, but even as a the new moderator with full access I had constant bugs and issues trying to do my job from my main account from my own instance (I’m French, so I was administrating that community from my jlai.lu account). All those issues, 100% of them, vanished the moment I created a new user account on the same instance I was trying to manage and gave that account full moderation role. I’ve also read other similar accounts of people facing bugs when they tried to moderate a community from a different instance.

    A warning that may be worth adding in the OP?

  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    FYI: comm_revival is not an official dbzer0 comm. It is more of an “advertisement” of dead communities, or an archive.

    For dbzer0 you either request it on [email protected] or the matrix chatroom.

    Great post, OP! I’ll repost this to comm_revival if you do not mind 😄

    • threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      comm_revival is not an official dbzer0 comm

      request it on [email protected]

      Thanks! Updated.

      I’ll repost this to comm_revival if you do not mind.

      I do not mind at all! Though keep in mind that as we update this post, changes wouldn’t be reflected in a reposted version. Linking back to this post might be better long-term.