I don't mean to be rude. The desire to use VPNs is completely understandable. Unfortunately, VPNs were being abused in ways that were detrimental to the community here. Last year there were several waves of really grotesque troll posts (CSAM, scat porn, etc.) on lemmy.world and other instances. Blocking VPNs was one of the responses that was effective in stopping those posts. The admin team has no interest in backtracking at this time.
You have moderation here
We have unpaid volunteers donating their spare time. Nobody wants to spend their lunch break purging CSAM posts from some troll. And no users want a post to stay up for hours because the mods were asleep, at work, or otherwise not watching the Lemmy feed. (That actually happened, and is what drove me to donate some of my time here.) If law enforcement ever does come knocking, this instance doesn't have the money or time to mount a defense.
I wish things were different. This is the unfortunate reality that this particular instance has faced. Other instances may feel differently.
In this case the mod is an active Lemmy user. They have posts and comments within the past day. It should be up to them to decide if they want to leave their community open, or lock their community and direct users elsewhere.
This has been happening to me and others as well, across multiple Lemmy instances. The common thread seems to be Firefox. I assume something changed in a recent Firefox update?
If anyone figures out the root cause, I would love to hear about it.
For each community that banned you, you need to send a message to one of the mods in that community. The modlog shows that you are currently banned from !asklemmy@lemmy.ml and !asklemmy@lemmy.world. Go to each of those communities, look in the community's sidebar, and you will see the names of the community mods. Click on one of the mods' names, hit the Send Message button in their profile, and say your piece. It's up to them to decide if they want to unban you.
Are you using an app, or a browser? I'm wondering if you have some open reports from the communities you moderate. Apps generally don't handle reports well, and some mix them in with private messages.
Edit: Nevermind, I checked the reports queue. Still, it would be helpful to know what interface you are using.
I'm hesitant to take a community from an existing moderator and hand it to a new user who has only been on Lemmy for a few days. I suggest you start by interacting for a while - make posts, try to drive discussions, get a feel for this place and how it works - before jumping into moderating multiple communities.
I passed your request on to the lemmy.world community team.
Note that !bangladesh@lemmy.ml already exists and is active. Though there is no harm in having another community on lemmy.world.
If your goal is to keep communication open during another government shutdown of the internet, then perhaps you should try to host an instance locally in Bangladesh? Lemmy.world is hosted in Europe, so if you lose connection to the outside world then a community on this instance would be inaccessible.
!climate@lemmy.world was just resurrected a few days ago, so now we have two redundant climate communities on this instance. Would it make more sense to lock one of these communities and direct people to the other?
If you really want both communities open, then I can give you the mod role for !climatechange@lemmy.world. The current mod definitely appears to have left Lemmy.
Of the three community mods, it looks like xohshoo is still active on Lemmy every couple of weeks. Have you tried messaging them directly? If not, that should be the first step before we consider taking their community and handing it to you or someone else.
You can PM one of us admins about it via Lemmy or Matrix.
If it's an active community then we'll pass it on to the rest of the team to see if a new mod can be found. As I type this, my lemmy.world reports dashboard shows 363 open user reports. We need attentive mods in our active communities to handle those; the admin team can't possibly keep up on our own.
If it's an inactive community then we will probably just leave it alone. The incremental cost of having one more inactive community on the instance is negligible. On the other hand, intervening has the potential to create trouble if the mod eventually logs in and sees that their community has been changed/locked/removed while they were away.
Assigning/removing mods is a manual process handled on a case-by-case basis. There is no official policy about removing banned users from their mod roles, though that doesn't seem unreasonable.
Communities with no mods (or absent/inattentive mods) keep humming along until something brings them to the admin team's attention. There are hundreds of communities like that on this instance. Lemmy.world does have a Community Team who try to find and address communities that need moderation help. It's a big task, though.
kersploosh @ kersploosh @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 94Joined 2 yr. ago
Short answer: no.
I don't mean to be rude. The desire to use VPNs is completely understandable. Unfortunately, VPNs were being abused in ways that were detrimental to the community here. Last year there were several waves of really grotesque troll posts (CSAM, scat porn, etc.) on lemmy.world and other instances. Blocking VPNs was one of the responses that was effective in stopping those posts. The admin team has no interest in backtracking at this time.
We have unpaid volunteers donating their spare time. Nobody wants to spend their lunch break purging CSAM posts from some troll. And no users want a post to stay up for hours because the mods were asleep, at work, or otherwise not watching the Lemmy feed. (That actually happened, and is what drove me to donate some of my time here.) If law enforcement ever does come knocking, this instance doesn't have the money or time to mount a defense.
I wish things were different. This is the unfortunate reality that this particular instance has faced. Other instances may feel differently.