Sounds like !casualconversation@lemm.ee might be a nice community to post this question to as well :)

Isn’t that very country/culture/field specific?

I’m not going to say it’s not a me-problem, but disregarding the fact that if it was that simple it would be more widespread amongst people is making it seem as if we don’t try seriously and downplays the effort many like myself put in.

I care about privacy and about my close ones (as many here do) and I explain the issue to them in a nice way so to not come across as a pushy salesman, and they readily admit that they don’t want to put the effort in (effort as in learning something new, upkeeping with multiple apps, etc).

It’s not that I don’t know why they don’t switch immidiately - I know why. It’s simply that they don’t. It’s okay not to switch as long as you know the risks and I’ve explained the risks and they seem to understand it, but it’s not enough to get everyone to switch.

If life was that simple with everyone (I know some switch without hesitation) the world would be completely different.

You can explain to a decent normal person the imminent doom we are facing with climate change and they may understand it very well, but they still wont give up on using their car and switch to public transport immidiately, because it is an inconvenience.

Yup and months of premium instant 24/7 tech support to ensure the slightest thing doesn’t return them to default apps in the beginning !

100% agree with you and I do the same.

You can still download the APK from their repository, install it, and use signals built in censoring-evasion setting as far as I know.

They are even working on self updating app feature IIRC.

This is why I donate to signal. I know there are decentralized alternatives but I can barely get my family and friends to use Signal.

There is a discussion (has been many discussions and for a long time) in lemmy GitHub repository about this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

We even have an official lemmy community for joplin! !joplinapp@sopuli.xyz (it’s linked on their website)

Someone’s account got banned by instance admins for mentioning they are 17. So you are right: no one is going to check!

Edit: it was on lemmy.world and nostupidquestions community IIRC

Awwsome! No problem at all. Long live Lemmy indeed!!

That plan sounds good and it should be absolutely no problem to transfer the moderation to you since it is on your instance and the mod has been inactive that long! Indeed go to the support community I mentioned and earlier and ask :)

No problem at all and good luck! Glad to have you in lemmy :)

PS. If you take over the community and want it to grow, here are some communities to get help with growing it: !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !fedigrow@lemm.ee

No worries! it’s confusing, I know.

Now, if you can tell the community name we can help you more.

Or if you prefer not to say then you need to figure out the community’s instance it is on, so the server name that comes after the AT sign examplecommunity@instance.name and contact the Admins of that instance.

If the community is in your instance (so lemmy.world) it’s tad bit easier: go to !support@lemmy.world and make a post about volunteering to take over a community.

Good luck and don’t hesitate to msg me or ask me here for help!

Lemmy is still growing and niche communities will take time to grow. I’ve also advocated for combining communities until a community grows to be too big and could use splitting into smaller, more dedicated communities.

Don’t remember which community we decided to lock and put a permanent stickied post pointing to another community for similar content until that community would become too big and we could reopen the closed community once there was a need for it.

But yeah its tough right now with smaller communities and trying to get the ball rolling. If you haven’t already, join us at !fedigrow@lemm.ee.

Thanks for pitching in! Okay so I don’t need to be too insecure, whew

Wait, you mean the mod or the admin? The term “Admin” is used for system administrators of an instance. e.g. lemmy.world Admins are not necessarily mods of any communities, they own, upkeep, and administer the server. Mods are Moderators of a community and not often/necessarily Admins of the instance.

If Admin has disappeared/is inactive for too long the instance wont likely stay up long. If the said community is on your instance (so lemmy.world), the admins of lemmy.world are definitely active. They can transfer the moderation of the community in question to you.

Edit: don’t worry, you are not disrespecting me in any way. Better to ask your questions and ask for clarification. I know fediverse is confusing and that’s why I’m more than happy to help so please, don’t worry.

Edit2: to clarify just incase: “Instance” is a lemmy server, so lemmy.world is an instance and happens to be your instance. My instance is “sopuli.xyz”.

Rather than making a new community ask the admin of the instance the community is on that they transfer the community to you. There are more likely to be subscribers already and we can prevent fragmentation of communities

Yes this works on many instances. I believe some instances even have a dedicated community for this but I can’t remember any right now… I think if you search for “support” communities each instance pretty much has one and you can request to take over a community whos mod is inactive.

We’ll see if someone corrects us, but for now I’m going to hold on to your comment and not be too insecure! lol

Thanks for making me feel better lol, I was going crazy thinking it’s riddled with grammar mistakes and I just don’t see them.

There is a reply in that thread mentioning grammar errors in the email which I’m not seeing. Could someone who knows English better than I explain what is wrong in that email? Or is it about grammatically wrong sentence structure?