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Has a matrix room been created? If not, I can create one
EDIT: Just created one and sent invites to the mods I could find a matrix account for
Perfection!
@Anticorp@lemmy.world are you able to join that Matrix chat group? I signed up using the Element app fwiw (not that it matters to connect - any Matrix one will do - but just in case you needed a recommendation for choice of app:-).
Hey man, sorry you went through all that work for nothing, but I don't want to create another account. I was willing to help moderate on a casual basis, but I don't want to have to switch between accounts on a daily basis and that sort of stuff. I already moderate a couple communities on this account, so I can't just dump this account. Sorry.
It's your choice, but note that you are welcome to remain as a mod either way, even with just your Lemmy.World account. As you say on a casual basis, you just won't get access to the reports that would help alert you to trouble spots identified already by people browsing the community. We now have 3 other mods all with Discuss.Online accounts so we're good, but could always use you chipping in when we haven't yet, again if you still wanted.
Matrix is a whole separate thing - it's like Discord. It too, like Lemmy, is entirely Free & Open Source Software, and the accounts and usage and everything is also free. It offers a "group"/channel style of communication rather than Lemmy's basis of topical "threads", which we all love but for the purpose of discussing mod activities the group method really is better. I just got it yesterday, and immediately I was able to access it both from a webpage and I downloaded an Android app (Element) as well. I like it! If you want, you could create a Matrix account, and optionally tie it into your Lemmy one by adding it to your Settings -> Matrix user, which adds a new button to Send Secure Message to your account Profile I believe. I don't see that button for myself for whatever reason, but supposedly Matrix and Lemmy go together very well.
In any case, nobody is asking you to give up your Lemmy.World account - I agree that would be far too much hassle! 😂 Let us know what you want to do here? Casual mod + talk with us on Matrix, just the former, or nothing anymore?
I can be a casual mod, although idk how much value that will provide for your community without reports. I typically just check reports every couple of days for the other communities I moderate, go through the whole list, then go about my life.
Hold tight - we are juggling the mod list around...
Edit: and, done!:-)
What does that mean for me?
Nothing at all - you are already back in the list of mods:-). Sorry to worry you, we were just following old advice to transfer "head mod" status from myself to m_f.
Thanks.
You are very welcome. I hope you didn't feel like we were excluding you, just trying to shuffle two others of us around in the list.:-)