Yes, it's a manual process. You put in a request and the admins get to it when they have a chance.

I'm guessing but I put in what I thought happened to the magazine owner over at https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin/t/771954/Questions-about-community-ownership-moderation-and-succession - in short the first admin (ernest here) becomes the new owner is my guess.

If a Kbin member requests deletion of their personal account and they happen to be a community owner, would ownership of that community default to the moderator with the next-longest tenure? That's how it worked at the bad place, is it the same way here?

Not sure, but account deletion is a manual process here. I suspect what actually happens is that the magazine is tranferred to the default owner / first admin account. On kbin.social that would be ernest.

See for example https://kbin.social/m/trans - a sub with few threads. I think the original owner successfully requested account deletion which is why that sub is owned by ernest now.

See also https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/258090/How-does-Delete-Account-work-currently

How long does account deletion normally take after the deletion is requested?

Not sure of the historical average time. It's a manual process though so it will take some time for the admins to get to it.

Also, do the posts get nuked along with the account, or do they remain on Kbin?

I saw an example of this some months ago. It seems like the posts do get nuked, though with recent updates I'm not 100% certain that this is still the case. Again see /m/trans - most likely it was one of those subs where most of the threads were started by the owner posting, so when the owner's account was deleted, so to did those threads and posts.

Actually it's worse than this - as the entire thread is gone, including other commenters' replies.

There's reason to be hopeful now. Ernest has posted an update about instance moderators who will be able to moderate mags that are either admin owned (and so otherwise wouldn't have other moderators to moderate them) or for those mags which are abandoned.

https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/598708/kbin-RTR-3-The-role-of-a-moderator-at-the-instance

Same here. I've been trying to find the time to do this for a while.

Interesting. I'm looking to run my own single user instance, so this is something to keep in mind I suppose.

Also, specific to the role of Speaker, he’s disqualified due to having been indicted of felonies with a term of more than two years.

This is great to hear, regarding the live API on artemis.camp

or prison for the chump you suckered into cheap labour.

I'm not seeing the 'or' bit. The article says the driver was already sentenced to nine years back in 2019. So it might be prison and deportation.

It also says he was a new permanent resident when the crime was committed. I'm surprised how they can so easily deport someone who has PR.

allow this situation to happen and all its gonna be is a civil fine for you

Alas, this is the real problem. And this case/hearing isn't going to affect the precedent on that, it will only affect the precedent for the future chumps.

IIRC the official reason was that some automated anti-spam code accidentally caught the kbin user agent and mistakenly added it to a block list, and the lemmy.ml admins were busy and didn't see it for over a week - but once one of them noticed it was promptly fixed.

Also, I recall this being specific to lemmy.ml - other instances run by other admins like lemmy.world and lemmy.ca weren't affected.

Following. Would love to get some peertube recommendations.

Related, https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/442117/Is-there-a-way-to-report-an-individual-user - a good workaround in the comments there

Thank you @ernest for all you do and all you have done!

Absolutely do not want to see you run yourself into the ground over kbin matters, your family and your health come first.

I don't question your judgement, but I think the "step down" bit is a bit extreme, even if you fail to meet the deadline. Worst case, maybe let the community appoint a second-in-command temporarily to get some things moving along while you take a well deserved break?

Hopefully they just haven’t thought about that yet

I was hoping that perhaps the folks behind @admin could help out here as a stopgap measure (at least to clean up spam in unmodded magazines) - but then I realized that the admin hasn't been online in over a month :/

A lot of spam seems to be coming from one-off instances via federation. Makes it easier to stop (the admins can just defederate once an instance is identified as a spammer w/o having to get into the tricky question of getting involved with the moderation of other magazines) but it also means new user restrictions aren't enough by themselves.

David Weber’s Honorverse and Mother of Demons by Eric Flint both come to mind. There is also the Little Fuzzy series by H. Beam Piper.

Edit: Also, The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Honorable mention also to Dragons Egg by Robert L. Forward (humans start out more advanced in the beginning but get surpassed) and the Uplift Storm trilogy omnibus (or books 4-6) from David Brin (humans aren’t the most advanced in the entire universe but are in the planet that the stories take place on).

Any updates on this general mechanism? Another, larger magazine now needs help: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/377620/Seems-like-m-RedditMigration-is-currently-unmoderated

Btw - really appreciate everything you've done. I know how hard it can be to keep up with all the requests and tags, you must be utter swamped.

Pretty impressive! Wonder where kbin instances fit in those stats.

Did you ever hear back about this? I was asking about this for /m/RedditMigration, see https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/377620/Seems-like-m-RedditMigration-is-currently-unmoderated - it's pretty bad that we have such a large magazine that's effectively unmoderated right now.

The first time this happened for that sub, we were able to directly appeal to Ernest and he added an extra moderator, but that was before he took a step back, and I wasn't sure how the new system was supposed to work.

Here’s the formal charging document: https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/08/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT-Trump-Fulton-County-GA.pdf

It spells out the accused violations that are before a court of law to rule on.