This is in regards to the brand-new !AskUSA@discuss.online community.
And by more serious discussions I mean e.g. the legality of the recent jury nullification issue, which I don't want to allow if I were a moderator in it.
If you say yes you will be granted the community "ownership" as the sole moderator. I've only been a mod myself on Lemmy for less than a day but we'll figure out how to transfer it to you. You can ofc always add new mods and change it however you like after that. The advantage here is chiefly that you get the community "name" AskUSA, whereupon I could later create e.g. a CasualUSA but you would have the privileges of that specific name, to match the style of e.g. AskUK or AskLemmy (or AskScience or AskMen or AskElectronics or AskAndroid etc. - there are so many here using that style:-).
I don't want to be involved in something that is going to constantly be depressing to me, though I do recognize the need for such and am offering the community "name" if someone else wants to pick up that mantle.
While if nobody says yes then I suppose I'll just keep it going in the more CasualUSA light-hearted style, until such time as someone does. Either way I'll offer to help grow it by posting and commenting to it regularly - unless you want me to stop b/c I tend to be really bad at guessing what people want to see (e.g. personally I love John Oliver and also got involved in the Reddit protests, so why people are downvoting sexy pics of JO on Lemmy of all places... I seriously have no clue).
The community also needs moderators to help in general - so even if you don't want to take it over, would you like to help moderate it if it were to remain a more casual, light-hearted community?
To confirm: no you don't want to be a mod in a community that allows for more serious discussions (like whether jury nullifications are ethical), or just no you don't want to be the owner / sole mod? If the latter, note that @admiralpatrick@lemmy.world has also volunteered to help:-D, so in this case would you be okay to be the "top mod" and then him listed after you?
I was saying that I don't want to be the admin for that community, but I'll volunteer to help moderate it, so the latter.
@Anticorp@lemmy.world Awesome! I added you as a mod. Apparently, as Blaze mentioned, you won't be able to view actual "reports" though, from your Lemmy.World (LW) instance. Do you want to create an account on this Discuss.Online (DO) instance so that you can view those? If so, please reply here from that account and one of us can then add it to the mod list. If not, you could still help by being able to do moderator actions, but e.g. if someone replied to an older post and it violated the rules then your attention would not be brought to it. It's entirely your call but I advise making a DO account b/c it's easy, a web browser can be bookmarked to DO even if you normally use an app to access Lemmy with your main LW account, and you can quickly check in ~5s I think if there are no reports to view (I've never seen such a report but probably actually reading them would take longer), which is perhaps likely to be the case on most days? (and if not then that is all the more reason to have access to those reports!)
It looks like Nutomic wants to add cross-instance moderator reporting to the Lemmy sourcecode, but not until ~0.20 so sometime next year rather than "soon".
@Anticorp@lemmy.world @admiralpatrick@lemmy.world How do we want to communicate about mod matters? If it helps, I just joined Matrix (@openstars:matrix.org, although I'm not certain that I linked my account there to mine here - I don't see any indicators to that?) - should we use that, like we could create a room, or are there existing rooms we should be joining? (now also @Blaze@feddit.org) I've never modded anything here on Lemmy before so any advice is welcomed here about what people tend to do - like what they find works best?
You can create a room, usually I have one per community I mod.
Thanks for the advice on best practices!:-)
Has a matrix room been created? If not, I can create one
EDIT: Just created one and sent invites to the mods I could find a matrix account for
Perfection!
@Anticorp@lemmy.world are you able to join that Matrix chat group? I signed up using the Element app fwiw (not that it matters to connect - any Matrix one will do - but just in case you needed a recommendation for choice of app:-).
Hey man, sorry you went through all that work for nothing, but I don't want to create another account. I was willing to help moderate on a casual basis, but I don't want to have to switch between accounts on a daily basis and that sort of stuff. I already moderate a couple communities on this account, so I can't just dump this account. Sorry.
It's your choice, but note that you are welcome to remain as a mod either way, even with just your Lemmy.World account. As you say on a casual basis, you just won't get access to the reports that would help alert you to trouble spots identified already by people browsing the community. We now have 3 other mods all with Discuss.Online accounts so we're good, but could always use you chipping in when we haven't yet, again if you still wanted.
Matrix is a whole separate thing - it's like Discord. It too, like Lemmy, is entirely Free & Open Source Software, and the accounts and usage and everything is also free. It offers a "group"/channel style of communication rather than Lemmy's basis of topical "threads", which we all love but for the purpose of discussing mod activities the group method really is better. I just got it yesterday, and immediately I was able to access it both from a webpage and I downloaded an Android app (Element) as well. I like it! If you want, you could create a Matrix account, and optionally tie it into your Lemmy one by adding it to your Settings -> Matrix user, which adds a new button to Send Secure Message to your account Profile I believe. I don't see that button for myself for whatever reason, but supposedly Matrix and Lemmy go together very well.
In any case, nobody is asking you to give up your Lemmy.World account - I agree that would be far too much hassle! ๐ Let us know what you want to do here? Casual mod + talk with us on Matrix, just the former, or nothing anymore?
I can be a casual mod, although idk how much value that will provide for your community without reports. I typically just check reports every couple of days for the other communities I moderate, go through the whole list, then go about my life.
Hold tight - we are juggling the mod list around...
Edit: and, done!:-)
What does that mean for me?