How do I transfer ownership of my community?

submitted 6 days ago by

edited 6 days ago

I’m on Piefed, and the community, !okbuddyrosalyn@lemmy.world, is on Lemmy.

I’ve tried transferring ownership via using the actual Piefed.world website, but whenever I try, I only get these options:

Hot Top New Old

wjs018

6 days ago

In the sidebar of the community, hit the settings button and from there, one of the settings pages is for moderators. That is where you can appoint new moderators or resign from being a moderator.

One catch is that since this is a lemmy community on a remote server, your piefed account probably doesn’t have the correct permissions to be able to modify the moderator list. You likely need an admin (like @mrkaplan@piefed.world) to elevate your piefed account to being an “owner” of the community before you can start modifying the modlist.

Teknevra@piefed.world

OP 6 days ago

Yeah.

I can see the list, but all it shows me is this:

MrKaplan@piefed.world

edited 5 days ago

does being the sole mod in a community make you owner?

i guess piefed doesn’t take the top mod structure lemmy uses into account at all?

wjs018

5 days ago

Ensuring that there is at least one local mod of a remote community that is designated as an owner is something that has been noted and discussed on codeberg. I’ll see if I can try to get that in for the 1.7 release. It hasn’t been much of an issue historically because most of the active users were on piefed.social, so it was easy for us to fix. However, as MAU grows elsewhere, this is becoming more important.

As for compatibility with the lemmy mod structure, it does work differently. You would have to ask rimu about why it was set up this way, but PieFed has the moderator and owner statuses:

Moderator: Can do all the moderation actions on content in the community (removals, stickies, etc.) and regular users (community bans, etc.)
Owner: Same powers as a Moderator, but can also add/remove community moderators that are not also an Owner.

AFAIK, there isn’t any kind of check for remote lemmy communities to see if a local owner of a community is able to remove a remote moderator by the lemmy moderator rules. So, I guess theoretically, a piefed community owner could remove a remote lemmy moderator, but then that removal is rejected by the community’s home instance. The modlist should be refreshed for remote communities as part of the daily task IIRC, so the effect would be temporary.