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.

  • Elevator7009
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    7 hours ago

    That’s true. And you probably have more risk of getting impersonated, you kind of seem like a big recognizable name, especially since you seem to lead the “growing the Fediverse” discussions.