I made a tool some time ago to respond quicker to reports which didn’t federate to the instance of my main account (lemmy.world). Previously I would have to check from multiple instances, and now I get a notification on my phone when a report is made within a couple of minutes. I've now added built-in ntfy.sh support.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35221872

I often get reports with just “Breaks Community Rules” and no additional context. This is because Voyager automatically sets the mandatory report reason as “Breaks Community Rules” without actually adding a reason. However, it's often not clear why a post would break those rules and which rule would be broken.

EDIT: Trying it again today, hoping it will work out before tonight when my old instance goes down. So far, it very much looks like yesterday is repeating itself. My personal guess is, the mod promotion doesn't properly reach lemmy.world for some reason, and then later, the other two instances sync with lemmy.world as the authority (after all the community is on there) and say (rightfully) "hey, the instance the comm is on doesn't have those accounts as mods, we better remove the privileges again!".

lemmy.abnormalbeings.space sees:

lemmy.world sees:

piefed.world sees:

So, my original instance lemmy.abnormalbeings.space will be closing down tomorrow (as of this post) due to lack of use and overall a re-focussing on the PeerTube platform on the server. Originally, [email protected] was created by someone else, but they seem to have deleted their account on lemmy.world and moved over to piefed.social. So my account is currently the only mod left.

As my old account on my instance, I added my new accounts (on PieFed.world and Lemmy.world respectively) as moderators, and locally on my instance, they appeared in the interface immediately (at first). My PieFed account also appeared as a moderator a short while after on PieFed.world in the interface. Thinking this might just be a federation issue for the lemmy.world account to also be added, I let it sit for a few hours, but unfortunately, now neither of the accounts appear as mods any more (also on my old instance), seemingly something in the federating process removed them again, or something in the system rejected the promotion (maybe because the accounts were too young?).

This is not ideal, since after my self-hosted instance will go down, there would be no moderator accounts left for the community. Does anyone know what could be the issue and how it could be resolved?

I made this tool some time ago to respond quicker to reports which didn't federate to the instance of my main account (lemmy.world). Previously I would have to check from multiple instances daily, and now I get a notification on my phone when a report is made within a couple of minutes. I cleaned it up a little and added some documentation in case anyone else is dealing with this issue or needs something like this.

Hey you!

I just created a community.
And started to wonder whether it's cool/interesting enough. Or whether it even follows the rules to exist in the first place, heh...

There's one old post about the matter already: https://lemmy.world/post/285637?sort=New
It discusses generating enough content in a new community to give some ground for discussion, and moderating it.

But I thought that as time has passed...maybe we'd have some new/more insight or ideas/thoughts about different tips, tricks or guidelines towards creating a quality community? A 2025 version of that old post, if you will.

EDIT: question answered in commented links. Keeping it here for record keeping.

I saw that this user is constantly reposting from other instances, it's basically all they do.

I could just block them, but I was wondering

• is this maybe just a bot?
• is it against the rules?

Ideally, they'd crosspost instead of repost. And I think this is against the very idea of the instance federation.

It's really more a question than a call for action.

https://feddit.org/u/[email protected]

This user is going completely crazy, but not in a funny way. They deserve an account wide ban. How do I even report this?

https://feddit.org/u/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30801261

I'm noticing a pattern starting to develop in the community I mod (just barely -- it's only happened 3 times so far) where a user that posts a fairly large amount of relevant content occasionally posts weird spam with a title of alternating letter nonsense (e.g. "zazaz" or "sdsdsds") and a link that goes to some random domain that serves nothing but a default 404 error (as in the domain is registered and there's a server responding to requests, but there's no content for it to serve).

I suppose it could just be bad behavior on the part of said users, but it feels more like a bug or their account getting hijacked or something. Anybody have any insight?

I am a mod of two communities, and I have noticed that a mod can completely change the community, spare delete it. One wrong mod and the place is done.

Hello. How do I apply for admin, and I created a community, so how to I appoint admins in it?

I mod a disability related community ([email protected]). And I just ran into a massive ableist in the wild.

Can I ban them from the community preemptively.

Been awhile since I've felt inclined to extend some timeouts to anyone for light rule violations and was surprised to find that the only options for timeouts/temp bans appear to be for a day or more.

This isn't a case of overlooking anything, is it? Or some hidden setting where you could put 1h or 1 hour and have it apply?

A day minimum for what's intended as a timeout feels excessive, but if it's the only option anymore. 😕

I would expect it to reduce the list of communities to just those I moderate, so just to [email protected] here. Instead it looks just like the Local list of communities for me. It occurred to me I could be very wrong about what Moderator view is supposed to be. How does this work?

I can't find any content from this user from which to access the famous three-dots menu to unban them, and the post that resulted in their ban is already long gone, so I can't do it from there.

Could an administrator please unban the user?

Banned a guy, who's convinced me the ban was too hasty. I'd like to un-ban the banned. Don't see any way to do that.

Thanks.

Edit: Resolved. God bless you, every one!

The mods of procycling are all absent - and the community is suffering for it.

The only moderator has been permanently banned so I’d like to take it over please.

A couple of months ago I wrote a single comment under a post about a hateful rage upon israel in c/news, literally I wrote “What could Hamas do to end the violence?”

Nothing else.

And I got immediately banned.

The moderators refuse to answer my messages.

Not even that, they even banned a buddy who spoke up in my defence per message - not per c/news but really just a personal message to be sure.

In 15 years of Reddit my posts got deleted a lot - but NEVER my comments and I got NEVER banned for anything.

If this is what Lemmy wants to be, then be it but without me.

Do you think this is what Lemmy needs to be?

@[email protected] is banning people on lemmy.world's largest communities for saying that Israel is like the 51st US state. He's declaring that this is "misinformation"

That Israel exists as a de-facto US state is a fairly non-controversial statement in Israel. But on lemmy.world's largest communities, where mods are working to distance certain US politicians from the war, it's now misinformation.

Hello mods, the current mod of [email protected] has been inactive for 9 months so I was thinking if I could mod it. I'm aware that me being currently banned from fediverse community for my rude tone in a post is not looking good right now and for that I apologies. And so I understand if you do not want to mod me, but since I'm the only poster there I thought I should ask anyway.

I mod [email protected]. Was originally added with my now-dead @[email protected]. I cannot login to that account and remove myself because kbin.run died. Now the community appears to have two same-name mods. It is not the biggest deal ever but I would like a way to boot my dead account from the mod team.

Hello, I would like to request to be added as a mod for [email protected]. I don't know if it's best practice to keep the (inactive) original mod on, but the current mod hasn't posted or commented since November of last year, nor have they responded to any of my DMs. I don't have any grand plans, I just want to help monitor for spam, potentially find another co-moderator to carry the torch in case I get hit by a bus, and hopefully grow it into a more active community. I currently co-moderate two other small communities - [email protected] and [email protected]. Thanks!

I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on [email protected] to thank someone for a recipe that looked good, and found out I had been banned.

Odd, considering I hadn't posted to that sub at any point in the past. I checked the modlog to find that "Mod" had banned a bunch of people citing "Rule 5."

Their Rule 5 states: Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).

I (and hundreds of others) seemingly broke rule 5 of this community without ever posting there. What is going on?

And my apologies if this isn't the place for this, but I had no idea where else to post the question.

The moderators of [email protected] have not logged in, posted or commented in 12 months. The community is still active and slowly gaining more subscribers. I've reached out to @[email protected] the main moderator there, multiple times without a reply asking if they were willing to transfer, but I've yet to have a reply.

I'm moderator at [email protected] which shares a lot of similar content with it being part of the same series. As [email protected] is still active I'd like to build on what is there and ensure that there is someone able to moderate if required.