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To all members: a question about the future of this community

You may have read my previous post, announcing I would be trying to revive this community by posting regularly in it?

This morning I mentioned this project in another discussion on Lemmy and someone rightfully pointed to me I may want to be able to moderate said community and that probably I would need to create one from scratch.

I don't want to make a new community if there is no need too, Lemmy is already short on participants without creating even more separated and smaller communities. I also don't feel any personal urge to be an admin myself. But I also don't want to encourage people to participate in a community that no one would be able to keep civil.

Before doing anything, I would like to hear your opinion and suggestions if you have any. What do you think I should do or, much better, what should we do?

And if the admin is reading this: what do you say about all of that?

While I wait for your comments, I will also ping the admins on my very own instance. We're a French speaking one, so I want to ask them if that would be OK to host an English speaking community. Whatever happen next, I’ll let your know.

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  • Instead of creating a new one, you could apply for taking over the existing community if the mod(s) are just squatting and being inactive otherwise. At least that's how it works on Lemmy.World

    • I have asked the admin their opinion, so we will see if they suggest something like that, or any other solution — that would certainly be better than promoting me admin of anything ;)

      Would I be able to do that take over without creating an account on the same instance as the one they're using? I would rather not have too many accounts if at all possible ;)

      • Just technically speaking, for community moderating you do not need an account on the instance the community is hosted on, but some (instance) admins can request this.

        • Great to know, thx!

          So we now have to wait and see if the admin, fingers crossed, or anyone else her has any suggestion on what we could do.