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Is Lemmy.World going to do anything about community squatting? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A good example is https://lemmy.world/c/documentaries

One of their mods, https://lemmy.world/u/sabbah, currently mods 54 communites despite only being on Lemmy for about a month and has never posted on c/documentaries (except for his post asking for people to join his mod team).

The other mod, https://lemmy.world/u/AradFort, has one post to c/documentaries and moderates 18 communities.

Does Lemmy.World have a plan to remove this kind of cancer before we start getting reddit supermods here too?

Edit: This comment shows how this is even more dangerous than I had thought.

Edit2: Official answer from LW admin is here

Final: Was going to create an issue for this on the Lemmy github, but I browsed for awhile and found that it had already been done. If anyone wants to continue the discussion there, here it is - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3452

Perhap we need another issue for the problem in the original edit (It being impossible currently to remove a 'founding' mod without destroying either the community of their account)

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The LemmyAsk and LemmyExplain names are pretty clever. I hope those communities stick over the reddit-replacement communities like "AskLemmy".

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about a travel one called LemmyPeopleGo?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Gold. Absolute gold.

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

Definitely a welcome change over the "porn" modifier on reddit. r/FoodPorn, r/AbandonedPorn, r/AnimalPorn... Hoping more clever/mature community names will take hold here.

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

The ask_____ format is good because it's easy to find and jump to it's sister communities like ask historians and ask electricians, etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LemmyShowYouSomething

It could be for cool stuff, or a community dedicated to Fire Marshall Bill.