this looks like the same issue https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4744

I’m not sure, you should definitely report that as a bug on the GitHub though

I think it was fixed in 0.18.5 yea, I guess there could be some system to trust other moderators from other instances but then it’s basically the same as it is now lol, where trusting==appointing moderators, really the same thing

defederation is an admin action not a moderator action, and there are much fewer admins than there are moderators, so the workload would be a concern

Doesn’t your suggestion mean that a user from a small instance or their own instance can make a bunch of garbage posts (or even illegal posts) and then a moderator from every single other instance will have to delete their posts separately? That’s a ton of repeated work, and really opens up Lemmy to abuse.

Currently, communities are created and hosted on a single instance, and are moderated by moderators on that instance.

You can be a moderator of communities on different instances, my account here on programming.dev is a moderator of communities on other instances such as lemmy.ml

I really like the feature for All/Local/Subscribed, but maybe it’s a temporary solution until we get some better method to group communities and post to a group of communities instead of posting to communities individually

This is not limited to just Lemmy but any federated systems.

Not just federated systems, things like the Wayback Machine exist too, web crawlers, people can save websites too (every web browser has a save option), or you can self host an archiving crawler if you want to backup a certain website, data hoarders exist.

For example, last I heard, an administrator has to drop into a command line to delete media from removed posts, otherwise they’d still be accessible if the URL was known. (Think illegal material.)

that’s not true anymore, there’s a dashboard built into the website now

Lots of people don’t like those communities that are filled with bot posts. A lot of people even disable viewing of bot posts. Most of those bot posts have 0 comments.

I just don’t think they’re a good example to support your case.

I use Boost and it seems to be able to do at least most of the moderation actions needed, and it supports notifications. I think Summit, Connect, Sync, and Jerboa are also good but I haven’t used them too much.

In the user settings there’s an option to export everything to a file, then you just import that file into your other account

That would make community names a bit longer so they’d be more annoying to type and share?

Most niche communities (with some exceptions ofc:-) here aren’t as active as they were on Reddit, so many of us end up spending more time in the generalized ones - e.g. !technology@lemmy.world rather than specific ones like r/OnePlus or even r/Android.

I think we need to get better about crossposting to multiple communities. You could post to all 3 of those.

I filed an issue on Github for you

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4743

Just saying it’s an easy one to start with to get familiar with the system

And yeah it could be used to verify “tags” in the title, or require you put the year for something like a movie title or game, like (1993)

also my comment kicked off a little discussion in here, so that’s nice too

a pretty simple plugin idea would be a regex to validate post titles, deny the post if the title is invalid

I might try it unless someone else beats me to it

I guess to start with it could be a config file with a dictionary of community name: regex

and later it could be made to use the database with an api to set the regexes, could even allow community moderators to set their own regexes (might need a maximum regex length, maximum number of parenthesis/groups in the regex pattern, and disable lookbehind/lookahead, for performance reasons)

awesome, I hope this can bring more devs on board

also I think we should organize behind a single GitHub tag, like

https://github.com/topics/lemmy-plugin

Boost can do this

Also I did suggest a tweak to the hot rank for comments, I do feel like Hot is ok for posts but not for comments

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4471

here’s the tracked issue for “Instance agnostic links” https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987