Invite user to mod a community without them commenting first (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by baronvonj@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

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I'm wanting to add another account of mine on another instance as moderator in communities I mod here. I don't want to have to go and drop comments on old threads or anything to be able to do it. I see there's an API for it

https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/post_community-mod

but I can't see how to get an API key. I've seen some indicator that Lemmy has a developer dashboard where I can find my API key, but I don't see how to access the dashboard.

Any guidance?

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

To get your API key use the browser debugger and grab it from your outgoing network requests

Or...

Just use tesseract, it lets you add mods by name directly

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

thanks

this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026

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