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A related question I have had is: can you transfer communities you have created to another instance? I'm sure the answer is no.
I've been very happy with lemmy.world, but I will be stopping my donations and finding another instance if it federates with Threads.
You don’t have to!!! Once you create a community, it stays on that instance forever unless admins remove it. Just create another lemmy account on another instance, and appoint yourself mod from the original account. Now you could just delete your account on the original server and pick up where you left off as mod on the new account. I just learned this.
Edit-my response still doesn’t address your question directly, and I see that there are cases where you might actually want to move an entire community over to be hosted on another instance (say, if you know that instance is about to go dark). This doesn’t look possible now, and I really don’t think it should be.
Nothing. They will exist as long as the instance exists.
So they would just be modless?
You can appoint a new mod yourself before leaving, or your own account from a different instance. But if you are the only mod when you delete the account then yes. Instance admins can still apoint someone else though.
“or your own account from a different instance“
Great to know. That should have been, but wasn’t obvious to me. Thanks
If you want you can test it yourself, there are 3 test instances separated from live ones, links in this post: https://lemmy.world/post/335015
How do you appoint new mods though? I don't see a menu to moderate the communities I created.
It's part of the context menu on each post/comment in the community, there's an option to appoint them as mod
So you gotta make a post or comment before you can become a moderator
Technically, there's instance admins. But I don't know.
They will likely disappear.