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Try using the Photon front end. For adding and removing mods, it is more flexible than the standard lemmy-ui front end.

https://photon.lemmy.world/c/libros/settings/team

Lemmy.world did defederate from exploding-heads, but never defederated from hilariouschaos as far as I know. When hilariouschaos appeared the admin team discussed it and decided to take a wait-and-see approach. First, some of the more problematic exploding-heads users seemed to be gone. Second, by that time Lemmy had more blocking options for users to curate their own feeds, so instance-level defederation seemed less urgent.

We will discuss it again. Personally, it’s been a while since I have peeked over the fence to see what they’re up to over there.

No problem. I added you as a mod and removed the old inactive mod. Note that, since your account is on a different instance than the community, you will not receive community reports. It’s a known bug in Lemmy. It looks like a pretty chill community so I don’t expect you will get many reports, but if you want to cover your bases then I recommend making a lemmy.world alt and adding it to the community mod team so you will have a way to see them. If you use the Photon front end (https://phtn.app/) instead of the standard lemmy ui then you can assign anyone as a mod regardless of whether they have posted/commented in the community.

@kwoodall@lemmy.world, mentioning you here for transparency in case you come back to Lemmy and wonder what happened.

I added you as a mod. The existing mod has no activity for over a year. Note that, since your account is on a different insurance than the community, you will not receive community reports. It’s a known bug in Lemmy. I recommend making a lemmy.world alt and adding it to the community mod team, then checking it occasionally for reports.

I left the original mod in place in case they come back. I noticed Tolstoy said they would be contacting the old mod.

@Lukjam@lemmy.world, mentioning you here for transparency in case you come back to Lemmy and wonder what happened.

That’s bizarre. I have not experienced that with the stock lemmy-ui in Firefox, nor in the Summit app on Android. You have only seen it in Jerboa, correct?

Done.

Yes, that is a problem. No single solution is perfect, and VPN blocks are only one tool in the toolbox. Every instance is different, and admins pick the tools that they think will work best for their situation. VPN blocking happens to be a tool that seems to have worked well for lemmy.world.

Instances that lack moderation and have a history of being used by trolls tend to get the nuclear option: they are defederated by the big Lemmy instances. That’s not ideal at all, but the tool set for Lemmy moderation is very limited right now.

Short answer: no.

I don’t mean to be rude. The desire to use VPNs is completely understandable. Unfortunately, VPNs were being abused in ways that were detrimental to the community here. Last year there were several waves of really grotesque troll posts (CSAM, scat porn, etc.) on lemmy.world and other instances. Blocking VPNs was one of the responses that was effective in stopping those posts. The admin team has no interest in backtracking at this time.

You have moderation here

We have unpaid volunteers donating their spare time. Nobody wants to spend their lunch break purging CSAM posts from some troll. And no users want a post to stay up for hours because the mods were asleep, at work, or otherwise not watching the Lemmy feed. (That actually happened, and is what drove me to donate some of my time here.) If law enforcement ever does come knocking, this instance doesn’t have the money or time to mount a defense.

I wish things were different. This is the unfortunate reality that this particular instance has faced. Other instances may feel differently.

The mod (@comcreator@lemmy.world) does look inactive.

Is there another community you think users should be directed to?

In this case the mod is an active Lemmy user. They have posts and comments within the past day. It should be up to them to decide if they want to leave their community open, or lock their community and direct users elsewhere.

@ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world mentioning you here since it’s your community being discussed.

I have appointed you as the mod, and removed the inactive mods. None of them have visible activity since 2023.

@JoeChio@lemmy.world, @VioletteRei@lemmy.world, @VioletteRei@lemmy.world, @taminightshade@lemmy.world, @Oswald@lemmy.world, I’m mentioning you here for transparency in case you come back to Lemmy and wonder what happened.

Goodbye

This has been happening to me and others as well, across multiple Lemmy instances. The common thread seems to be Firefox. I assume something changed in a recent Firefox update?

If anyone figures out the root cause, I would love to hear about it.

For the curious, here’s the thread OP is referring to: https://lemmy.world/post/18504118

Looks for the comments by MrKaplan.

For each community that banned you, you need to send a message to one of the mods in that community. The modlog shows that you are currently banned from !asklemmy@lemmy.ml and !asklemmy@lemmy.world. Go to each of those communities, look in the community’s sidebar, and you will see the names of the community mods. Click on one of the mods’ names, hit the Send Message button in their profile, and say your piece. It’s up to them to decide if they want to unban you.

Hmmm. I’m short of ideas. Are one of these filters selected?

Are you using an app, or a browser? I’m wondering if you have some open reports from the communities you moderate. Apps generally don’t handle reports well, and some mix them in with private messages.

Edit: Nevermind, I checked the reports queue. Still, it would be helpful to know what interface you are using.

Is this why some users downvote everything? To mark posts as read?

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