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.
As a !bunnies@lemmy.world and !otomegames@ani.social mod, this is an annoying barrier to entry, but once I have the account made it’s really easy to switch between the two in my opinion. I have autofill on my passwords and Lemmy from iOS on just the raw website, no apps. Might be different for app users.