Yes, it’s a manual process. You put in a request and the admins get to it when they have a chance.

I’m guessing but I put in what I thought happened to the magazine owner over at https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin/t/771954/Questions-about-community-ownership-moderation-and-succession - in short the first admin (ernest here) becomes the new owner is my guess.

If a Kbin member requests deletion of their personal account and they happen to be a community owner, would ownership of that community default to the moderator with the next-longest tenure? That’s how it worked at the bad place, is it the same way here?

Not sure, but account deletion is a manual process here. I suspect what actually happens is that the magazine is tranferred to the default owner / first admin account. On kbin.social that would be ernest.

See for example https://kbin.social/m/trans - a sub with few threads. I think the original owner successfully requested account deletion which is why that sub is owned by ernest now.

See also https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/258090/How-does-Delete-Account-work-currently

How long does account deletion normally take after the deletion is requested?

Not sure of the historical average time. It’s a manual process though so it will take some time for the admins to get to it.

Also, do the posts get nuked along with the account, or do they remain on Kbin?

I saw an example of this some months ago. It seems like the posts do get nuked, though with recent updates I’m not 100% certain that this is still the case. Again see /m/trans - most likely it was one of those subs where most of the threads were started by the owner posting, so when the owner’s account was deleted, so to did those threads and posts.

Actually it’s worse than this - as the entire thread is gone, including other commenters’ replies.

Hey OP, are you covered by the GDPR or CCPA?

If so perhaps you could ask for a copy of your data that lemmy world has on your former accounts, and report to the regulator if they ignore your request. Not sure if federation helps or hurts - like could you say that lemmy world must have something of your data since other federated servers still have a copy of your content?

Would be nice if there was a way to use the GDPR here to bring some addtional accountability to the lemmy world admins.

Would love to hear more about the ansible way.

Perhaps you could assert a copyright claim to the extent that you own your own modified version of the text of the rules - at least the sockpuppet would have to change the wording.

There’s reason to be hopeful now. Ernest has posted an update about instance moderators who will be able to moderate mags that are either admin owned (and so otherwise wouldn’t have other moderators to moderate them) or for those mags which are abandoned.

https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/598708/kbin-RTR-3-The-role-of-a-moderator-at-the-instance

Same here. I’ve been trying to find the time to do this for a while.

Interesting. I’m looking to run my own single user instance, so this is something to keep in mind I suppose.

Also, specific to the role of Speaker, he’s disqualified due to having been indicted of felonies with a term of more than two years.

This is great to hear, regarding the live API on artemis.camp