Just making you all aware of this topic -https://lemmynsfw.com/comment/137224
Please refrain from claiming names that you have no real interest in. Moderation should be based on your passion for a genre or model, not on just “collecting” communities as souvenirs.
Otoh, imo, moderating a community to keep it out of the hands of spammers (they will come to Lemmy soon enough), squatters and bad actors is a legitimate reason.
Thoughts?
My personal opinion is that if someone can demonstrate that passion within the community more than myself, I would gladly transfer (give up top mod position of) the community to that individual. I’ve done that on Reddit before and I will do so here also 😊.
Update: tbh, I have no idea if the concepts of top mod and any hierarchy levels as on Reddit also work the same way on Lemmy - need to find out later
As for your second part, if one is not able to moderate a community, then one should post a note in sub to look for responsible others to add and eventually transfer. An example is at [email protected]
Hope I understood your questions correctly…