Hi! I have been directed to this community, which I was previously unaware of, by this comment. I’m a !bunnies@lemmy.world user, not a mod, but seeing as our mod @RojaBunny@lemmy.world seems to have abandoned Lemmy and the Bunnies community I thought I might get the ball rolling on figuring out how to deal with there being two bunny communities. Do we want to merge, and if so how do we want to approach it? I see four options:
- Stay separate, do not merge
- Merge: move Bunnies users to Rabbits
- Merge: move Rabbits users to Bunnies
- Merge: move users of both communities to a single new community
Ah thanks, I had no idea what Lemmy’s solution was for unmoderated communities (I am talking to you from an Mbin instance, a fork of Kbin). I’ll probably need to see if I can even mod from here first, or if I’d have to make a Lemmy account.
A separate Lemmy account is probably the best at the current time - DMs don’t yet work properly across different instances, so if someone from Lemmy.world would try to reach you via DM (like asking questions about the rules of the community, having beef with another user, making suggestions they don’t feel comfortable with posting publicly etc.) you might not recieve the message. Or you recieve the message but you can’t answer via DM yourself.
It is on the To-Do-list of the supporters, but other issues with the site currently have higher priority so I have no idea when this will be fixed.
On the plus side, creating accounts is unlimited and free, so there’s nothing stopping you from making a Lemmy account in addition to your current one. And once the issue is resolved, you can still decide whether you want to retire or keep the alt account ;)