cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/443118
I am excited about the idea of Lemmy growing and having more and more active users.
In my case, the most visited subreddit was r/chess, and I have tried to promote the use of https://lemmy.world/c/chess@lemmy.ml
This is the lemmy chess community with the most subscribers, however I saw that it has no active moderator, the previous one corresponds to a deleted account. I see that this can be a significant obstacle to adoption, what can be done in these cases?
Each person who has posted in that community in the last year must join in group ritualistic combat with each other. The venue, type of combat, and weapons are decided based upon the topic of the community. So quite easy for communities about knife making or baseball, and somewhat murkier for communities about etymology. The first person to lose in combat and the last person standing are indentured into permanent moderation duties. The instance administrator referees and judges the event.
<somewhat murkier for communities about etymology
I choose bees, at dawn.