Tl,dr: use a local account for moderation.
Hello everyone,
Just a quick reminder on the moderated federation topic: due to some bugs on Lemmy, reports won’t federate to mod accounts on other instances (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4744). Even if they do (it works sometimes), closing them from a remote instance won’t federate back to the instance where the community is located, staying in the admins’ reports backlog.
From personal experience, some other actions like appoint another mod, pin/unpin threads do not work either.
While this stays an issue, please use local accounts to moderate.
That’s all, see you around.
Especially since Lemmy is still growing, I think it’s fine that I mod [email protected] and [email protected]. That’s probably my hard cap though. I do not think I could consistently do three, the third would suffer from inconsistent posting.
I usually post only from one, the other I keep only to deal with reports