While I personally liked having the bot, and wasn’t bothered by it since I only browse subscribed communities, I understand the change :)

I had a question that I never got around to asking: Would it be possible to be added as a moderator of a Lemmit community?

I’m still involved with my university subreddit, and it’s a fairly large one (/r/UBC). It would be great to have that content here so that users wouldn’t have to go to Reddit for it. However, one worry I had was about removing content. It doesn’t happen that often, but sometimes users do post personally identifying information or photos of other students (bullying / harassment), or link to harmful materials, etc. So the worry was that the bot would post the content here, and it would stick around even after being removed from Reddit.

Being added as a moderator to the lemmit community seemed like the easy solution. In the off chance that we need to remove content (ex. harmful, or when the original user requests the deletion), we could remove it directly. For communities that request something like that, it should be possible to verify that the request is valid through modmail or something.

Alternatively, the bot could be set up to check and remove content that has been removed from Reddit, but that might go against the archival principle and also consume significantly more resoures