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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by hetzlemmingsworld@lemmings.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

When I open certain small external community that i am subscribbed to https://lemmings.world/c/session@lemmy.ml , i see that moderator list is empty, yet when i visit same community via its parent domain https://lemmy.ml/c/session , i can see one moderator name. Clicking it, cause only page header and footer with no content https://lemmy.ml/u/Seb3thehacker , reloading page (F5) cause error couldnt_find_person. I am not logged in/nor registered on that external instance (lemmy.ml).

So this is confusing, how to become a moderator of an external community? Docs says that i do not need to register on it: "Community moderation can be done over federation, you don't need to be registered on the same instance where the community is hosted". Yet it does not explain steps to do. As I have mentioned, i am unable to contact current moderator. I guess one of my options may be to wait and see if current mod find me worthy and adds me as a mod. But i would like to know other options.

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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Hi, I'm an admin on lemmy.ml. The account of the one existing mod of the session community here has apparently been deleted.

I've heard there are some bugs with moderation of remote communities, but, I just made you a mod there anyway. I don't know the state of those bugs; it might work better if you made an account on this instance.

Btw, I recommend against using Session for a variety of reasons including the one I posted in your thread here.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

My experience with modding an external community hasn't been too bad, but it's a very lightly used community, and there's also a mod with a local account, which gives a certain level of safety.

[-] Nothing4You@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

the main problem is still that reports are not reliably getting to remote moderators: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4744

other than that it should be working.

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