I would like to apply as a moderator to these two weather related LW communities...

!Weather@lemmy.world
!tropicalweather@lemmy.world

The current state of these communities are only mildly active. There is no immediate urgency for a mod. I am just a weather enthusiast.
My experience -- I currently help moderate on c\funny on sh.ithust.works for all of the last 3 years.

Happy to lend a hand where I can.

I mean you guys and gals can heavily watch it. But I asked a question a while back how come dish does not have a playlist feature. If someone called up dish or invented a way is that piracy? Or the latest hacking news between the black white and gray hats? There will be not a person be able to say hay download here or there. Or if you would allow us to just not do exploits but link an article that says how you can get more space on the cloud and google hasn;t spotted it or some such. I can explain further.

Hello, I am building a (still-expanding) network of drug discussion communities, which currently includes:

Communities

• c/drugs - General Drug Discussion (Main / Central Community)
• c/weed - Cannabis Discussion
• c/psy - Psychedelic Discussion
• c/drank - Alcohol Discussion
• c/opi - Opiate Discussion

I've gotten these communities to a point I'm happy with (except c/drank but I'll be getting to that one soon. I had trouble finding an icon for it). I've also had no real trouble moderating them (Lemmy moderation is usually easy, most people here are nice).

So I'd like to request a community which appears to have been created, and then immediately locked down by, the user who made it:

• c/mdma

The only post, from 3 years ago, says "This community is currently awaiting the outcome of an agreement which will decide this communities future." Not sure what that's about but I'd like to get it running as a MDMA discussion sub in the style of these other subs. Thank you!

There’s a user running rampant with lack of artist attribution in the community. Frankly this is someone who should be banned and there should be a rule of no posts without attribution. I a world of AI stripping artists off f their work is an even bigger blow and is pure scummery.

These posts in the music community:

• ‘Bingo Gazingo — Bingo Gazingo [1997, spoken word poetry]’

• ‘Bingo Gazingo with Leo Abrahams — I'm So Used to Losing [2013, recorded 2009; spoken word poetry]’

• ‘David Shrigley — Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others [2006, spoken word]’

I've tried searching by the artists' names, by ‘spoken word’ and ‘poetry’, from both the web interface and the Thunder app — the posts don't show up. The posts open fine for me when I finally found them via an old comment, and they open in an incognito tab too.

Haven't checked any other posts right now. I know that searching in general works, as I regularly look for old posts before submitting anything to c/music — which usually does find my other posts too. Searching for ‘David Shrigley’ across the instance turns up another post about him from five months ago.

Dunno how Lemmy does search, but this suggests that the search index might miss some posts from a particular time.

P.S. More posts that I can't find (although checking programmatically would probably be more efficient):

• ‘Hans Reichel — Yuxo: A New Daxophone Operetta [2002, avantgarde]: a whimsical album made with the daxophone, an instrument invented by Reichel’

• ‘UneXpect — In a Flesh Aquarium [2006, avantgarde/progressive/operatic metal / mathcore]: kinda eclectic’

• ‘Therion — Nous ne sommes pas des anges [2016, yé-yé / symphonic metal]: cover of France Gall’ (in c/music)

• ‘Therion — Nous ne sommes pas des anges [2016, yé-yé / symphonic metal]: cover of France Gall’ (in c/metal)

The last two are from less than a day ago.

Hello! Is there a way i can have mod status restored to my current account in

!outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world

We had both during the .ee shutdown, but i fat fingered my screen and deleted this one instead of the .ee account from the mod list.
Then the other two disappeared from lemmy all together.

So there hasn't been a mod there in a year. Thankfully the community has been great. I am concerned about trolls now though, after seeing what happened in c/comics.

Any questions, ask away. Thanks guys.

This is my sisters thing about a jail library. Would like to show her it got done when she gets out of care for having a tumor removed.

This is in response to activity by Beep@lemmus.org, who’s actively, knowingly breaking the rules of the community (there’s a limit of two posts per day, yet I count ten from them in the last 24 hours; this is a pattern) and on top of that being a nuisance – intentionally erasing the credit from comic artists’ works before posting them to the disdain of the community’s readers. The latter isn’t against the rules, but there’s an obvious consensus from the community that it should be (I would poll them, but they already polled themselves to overwhelming support), and Beep taunts them and continues to flood the community in the absence of moderation.

The current sole moderator, lawrence@lemmy.world, last commented a month and a half ago, and they don’t seem to be actively moderating or responding to user reports. I’d try reaching out to them, but Beep has been doing this for a while now, and it doesn’t seem like “wait and see” is going to fix anything. If I’m made a moderator and lawrence objects with plans to actively moderate, I’ll unquestioningly demoderate myself. Moreover, I won’t delete posts created before I was moderating which break the rules against post limits so I don’t nuke dozens of posts where people have already had discussions.

I already moderate two active communities, and I recognize this is a pretty strong measure, so I debated for a while before asking.

Thanks.

!comicstrips@lemmy.world appears to have very absent moderation. Despite recent adjustments to the comm rules to limit users to two posts a day maximum, @beep@lemmus.org is consistently breaking this rule.

In addition, they have been identified by members of the community to be intentionally removing artist attribution from their posts through cropping, and when cropping cannot be applied, through use of AI image manipulation tools.

When called out about this, they have made a post (https://lemmus.org/post/21226925) pushing for a rule change in the comm to ban all "advertising". When asked for specifics on what they meant, they have clarified that this includes artist signatures in their comics.

This isn't a crisis by any means, but this is clearly someone engaging with the community in bad faith and taking advatage of a lack of active moderation. This appeared to be the best way to draw proper attention to this matter.

I'm new here. I came over because I'm annoyed at reddit, but I don't quite understand how things are supposed to work.

As I understand it, Lemmy is like a reddit where a bunch of individuals run separate servers. My main interest is in /c/parenting.

I see that Lemmy.world's /c/parenting has some posts. Lemmy.one has some. Lemmy.can has some, etc.

None of these sites individually has enough posts/people to be useful (network effect), but together, they could make up a useful forum.

How do I get all of the other lemmys' /c/parenting posts to appear alongside the ones from Lemmy.world in the web interface?

There's only one mod on !shavian@lemmy.world right now, and they haven't been around in a little bit. Hopefully this is the right way to do this, I just wanted to get added as an additional mod besides @2910000@lemmy.world since I'm there a lot anyway. Figured maybe I could help.

Dubai Community.

I basically want to change the main Pfp of the community, add normal rules comparable to the UAE community on Reddit and take care of it overall.

The main mod account has been inactive for long time.

Hi, I’d like to request moderator rights for !aptalsoruyok@lemmy.world.

The community is currently unmanaged because the only mod is a banned bot account. It’s intended to be the Turkish version of "NoStupidQuestions."

I want to clean it up, set the rules, and keep it active for Turkish users. Could you please assign me as a mod?

Thanks, ayna

The current community moderator is not active at all. Can you appoint someone active to moderate this?

I use Thunder as my preferred client for Lemmy and anytime I comment I see a bot "flair". I am a human using the internet via a VPN (Mullvad) that oft gets flagged for spam. I can comment and post but not vote.

How it goes?

edit Shame on the entire Lemmy World mod team for locking this thread, you are participating in an evil you don't want to mess with that will consume you. Children are dying as we speak and you have all atrociously failed your duty to ethically moderate and steward a community. You hurt this place.

This is a serious problem for y'all, I know you removed him as a site wide moderator, but it is simply not enough. You are endorsing someone who has a CLEAR pattern of silencing discussion about a particular group of people and if that doesn't alarm you, you need to wake up and pay attention.

Looking back there is a repeated pattern of removing, silencing and acting derisively towards discussion about Palestine and the Palestinian Genocide from Jordan Lund both from my interactions with him and also from others I have found easily from searching.

Deal with this problem.

See this post

https://sopuli.xyz/post/42491951

..and this post.

https://sopuli.xyz/post/42630105

Edit shame on the Lemmy World team for ignoring this post or trying to find lazy ways to dismiss it.

This should serve as a warning to all, do not depend on Lemmy World communities, diversify to different servers as there is a serious distortion of reality going on here about what is allowed to be talked about and what is not. The consequences are real and we could not be discussing a more serious subject of censorship than the Palestinian Genocide and the politics around it.

EDIT: It seems to be a Connect (mobile app) display error. Just checked on desktop website, it's all good Lemmy-wise. I accidentally left and rejoined c/ TakeYourTimeBack and TakeOurTimeBack and now it's not on the moderation list for either (and TOTB seems to be deleted).

I keep seeing ZippyBot post articles in incorrect communities just because a website is named poorly. Most recent example is a post in 'gaming' that's about a TV series, and not even about a game adaptation, but about t-shirts.

I went to go and block ZippySlop and wouldn't you know it? You can't ban 'admins.' ZippySlop posts to a wide array of communities that I do otherwise like, and the only other option besides blocking Zippy is to block all of those respective communities.

As that would be time consuming and detrimental to engagement of topics, why can't I block ZippyBot. Before anyone sneers 'cuz itz a admin bruh,' Why is a bot even an admin anyway?!

This fandom community seems to be unmoderated (I asked a month ago) and mostly inactive (with the bulk of last year's activity being me posting my drawings).

I would like to grow the community (so hopefully there will eventually be more posts from people other than me), and being able to moderate it will help me do so.

I’ve noticed something about deletion on Lemmy.world that’s been bothering me, and I’m hoping this is the right place to ask about it or suggest improvements.

Right now, when a user deletes a post or comment, the deletion is soft:

the content disappears,

but a “deleted” placeholder remains,

and some apps still show the original text in reply previews,

and federated copies may persist on other servers.

I understand this is how Lemmy works at the platform level, and that federation makes true hard deletion complicated. But I’m wondering if Lemmy.world could offer better user‑side deletion tools, or at least explore options that give users more control over their own content.

Here are a few ideas that might be realistic, low‑effort, and compatible with federation:

1. A “Classic Delete” option This would remove the content and replace it with a simple (deleted) marker — no preview text, no ghost remnants. Even if the placeholder stays for thread structure, the content itself should be fully wiped from Lemmy.world’s side.

2. Moderator‑assisted deletion If a user deletes their own post/comment, moderators could receive a small queue entry allowing them to manually hard‑remove the content from Lemmy.world’s database. This wouldn’t fix federation, but it would give users more control locally.

3. A “Close Post” option Instead of deleting, allow users to “close” a post:

hides it from their profile

prevents new replies

marks it as closed This avoids breaking thread flow while still giving the user an escape hatch.

4. A privacy‑focused deletion mode Even if federation can’t guarantee full erasure, Lemmy.world could:

wipe the local copy

send deletion requests to other instances

and clearly communicate the limitations This is still better than the current ghost‑comment behavior.

Deleted posts still count toward my profile totals. Is there any chance Lemmy.world could switch to counting only active posts/comments, or offer a privacy mode that hides deleted items from the profile stats?