Hi, I used to mod on Reddit for a while but stopped for a few years. I am hoping to find listings from communitys that need mode due to all the new traffic. I want to jump back in to support Lemmy.
A few of the communities that I created here, I probably wouldn’t want to mod long-term. They’re a piece of cake at the moment but if the fediverse were to blow up, I’d have to hand them over to someone with more time.
[email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] and a few others were just created to keep those names in safe hands and I’d prefer to safeguard them until I can pass them on to another person who is deeply committed to the collaborative spirit of FOSS and wants to run a community with fair and gentle moderation, no gate-keeping, and not ban-happy like /r/guitar on Reddit.
It likely depends instance to instance due to how Lemmy is federated. You may want to try browsing some small communities that you enjoy and seeing if they want an extra mod.
I imagine a lot of the time they don’t feel the need to actively looking for one just yet but if the community sees a surge in people that might change in a hurry
I haven’t come across a general community for it though to answer your question
Like others said, communities will ask for help internally. Saying that, check this post out: https://feddit.uk/post/585152
This post has bad vibes.
One of the upsides of federated spaces was no Reddit power mods that moderate just to moderate. Maybe just create or follow communities you like and engage in then volunteer to moderate when/if they ask.
I dont feel that way, the nature of my post was to help with the new influx of users, not mod because I have nothing bettee to do but to help contribute to Lemmy.
Even with benevolent intent, you’d likely be moderating a community that you truly aren’t apart of. This is ripe for members of the community to reject moderators who don’t fully understand or appreciate them.
For example if you were moderating a firearms or car sub you might remove posts that you believe to encouraging illegal modifications or behavior simply out of ignorance. The community would instantly see you as some radical trying to destroy their hobby, creating discord in the community.
If you would like to help Lemmy grow continue to make posts and comments. Many communities for niche interests have only a few posts and aren’t competitive with their Reddit counterpart yet. Just like Reddit the value of Lemmy isn’t divined by the hosts or mods but by the users who engage with one another.
The reason I was asking for a community with listings for mod positions was so I can look through and see what I actually want to moderate.
I can see I wasnt clear in my post and im sorry for the confusion this caused. No where in this post I said I would mod anything I could find to be a power mod. I asked for a community that provides those listings. The part about modding anything came from you.
I am trying to do my part of posting but have heard of bigger communities having issues dealing with the influx of new users and want to contribute.
Join communities that interest you, maybe one day they’ll need a mod. We don’t need mods regulating communities that they don’t care about. This only leads to power tripping authoritarians like Reddit has. Power mods are bad.
I never said anywhere in the post that I would moderate anything. I asked for a fourm where mod positions are posted to choose what I want to mod.
As others have said commuties usually ask for help internally. Join what you like and wait for the Bat Signal.
