Tl,dr: use a local account for moderation.
Hello everyone,
Just a quick reminder on the moderated federation topic: due to some bugs on Lemmy, reports won’t federate to mod accounts on other instances (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4744). Even if they do (it works sometimes), closing them from a remote instance won’t federate back to the instance where the community is located, staying in the admins’ reports backlog.
From personal experience, some other actions like appoint another mod, pin/unpin threads do not work either.
While this stays an issue, please use local accounts to moderate.
That’s all, see you around.
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Uploading / changing avatar and banners also causes issues as the remote instance image storage will be used.
It does make it unnecessarily hard to spread comms on multiple instances, as then it adds an extra work for mods who volunteer to it (maintaining another local account). I hope they can fix that.
That brings up an interesting philosophical question: should single accounts (users) be moderating multiple communities across multiple instances? I envision something screwed up like those two super mods on Reddit that “moderated” hundreds of subs.
Individual accounts feels more like a feature at that point where people should be more tied to understanding their local instance, but still visible to all other instances.
Almost like the concept of a passport, you can visit other places, but can only run for office in your locality.
Especially since Lemmy is still growing, I think it’s fine that I mod [email protected] and [email protected]. That’s probably my hard cap though. I do not think I could consistently do three, the third would suffer from inconsistent posting.
I usually post only from one, the other I keep only to deal with reports
As you can guess, I’m well aware 😅 Thankfully most of the communities I mod are on Lemm.ee, so I only have to check that alt regularly, but that’s indeed an issue.
Oh so that’s the reason! I thought you just liked having a fuckton of alts :D
Well, it’s a bit of both:
- I use alts as a way to have different feeds, feddit.org is the one for meta Lemmy discussions, lemmy.cafe for hobby topics, lemmy.zip for tech.
- I also have moderation alts that I use to avoid being too obvious as a mod. I think it generally gives a bad vibe when the single and only poster in a community is also the mod, and also it shows me as a normal user when discussing with people.
I prefer to let it show that I am a mod even when I was the only poster, felt more transparent about who I am. There is always the option to “Speak as moderator” on a comment you make in a community you mod. I use this option when I’m speaking in that role and not as another user who just so happens to be moderator.
