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What moderation controls do the creators or owners of lemmy communities have over their content? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I had a look through the documentation but couldn’t find anything in this. Are there any moderation powers held by community owners? How extensive are they if they exist?

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[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not sure if this is all, but looking at the mod log that you can see on any community these seem to be the options:

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you can view reports, remove posts, etc.

[–] Sagar@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Complete control. They do as they wish. It's my 3rd account after getting banned from 2 servers for absolutely nothing!

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

lmao xD

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

So I think I just hadn’t had enough coffee when I asked this.

Most of the information is available in the docs. I think, right here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/04-moderation.html

A pleasant surprise for me was that community moderation can occur over federation.

[–] unattributed@calckey.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@maegul@lemmy.ml I am wondering if communities can be private / approved users only... I didn't see that in the docs.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This section of the docs suggests that you can: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/06-other-features.html#lemmy-as-a-blog

[–] unattributed@calckey.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@maegul@lemmy.ml Actually, that process that it doesn't do what I want... The printing part is "... Everyone else can comment...". Meaning is not a private community, just one with partially restricted access.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yep, that makes sense.

I’m guessing you’d have to start your own instance then. Even so, I don’t know what would be necessary to keep it private. You’d have to turn federation off, for instance.

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