Kbin doesn't yet have the ability to transfer ownership of a magazine, so you would need to find a person to be the owner first, and have them create it.
Out of curiosity, what magazines are you looking to make?
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m/savedyouaclick. It does exist at @savedyouaclick, but that won’t federate over to kbin for me. I tried multiple times to get the magazine over here, multiple times entering @savedyouaclick@lemmy.nrd.li in the search bar and it’s still not here so might as well remake it. I’m guessing the reason for this is the same reason behind this issue about a magazine from a specific instance not federating over on kbin’s codeberg: something that is fixed in later versions of lemmy. Not sure if lemmy.nrd.li is running a version late enough that it fixes this issue or not.
I also intended to make a couple other magazines that did not have any equivalent I could find on the lemmy.world community search (since it’s one of the biggest instances I figure it’ll show me the most communities, including communities that are not on lemmy.world), but they now have an equivalent!
Sorry but that sounds a bit self serving.
"I want this place to exist but want someone else to provide it for me."
If no one else has created the community...maybe no one cares about it as much as you do (and you don't care enough to maintain it...).
So your chance of getting someone else to do the work for you is pretty slim.
I’m fine with being active in the place, doing lots of advertising, doing my best to get the place off the ground, writing up rules, etc.
I’m not fine with being the first line of defense against some troll posting gore. I also know that I tend to be pretty oversensitive and might use moderator powers to remove replies that really should have stayed up. Hence “I do not have the… thick skin needed to be a moderator”.
So yeah, this is totally self-serving. Don’t feel like putting myself through the gore or putting myself through the “oh my god fucking powertripping mod” criticism (whether warranted or unwarranted), better stay out of that position of power in the first place.
Cool.
I totally understand you position (who would want to be a mod?) but I think you have zero chance of this creating a space you want to post in.
Are you saying that you think I have zero chance of getting a magazine off the ground so I have more posters than just myself, or zero chance of finding someone else who is willing to moderate? I’m not entirely sure I understand your reply.
zero chance of finding someone else who is willing to moderate
This one. Not zero though but close to zero. Usually a mag is created by someone who is passionate about the topic (which you are) and wants to moderate it (which you are not).
There are hundreds of empty Mags that have been created and abandoned. (most of which are just clones of reddit subs) I have seen many threads of mods wanted for this mag I created but no longer want to mod but I have yet to see anyone take one over.
Fun fact on kbin.social: you can add mods without their consent or notification.
Not ethical to do so, but you can do what you've described in your question.
You can? We couldn't even get one to add even if we wanted to.
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Your moderation duties will be very light because this corner of the internet is too obscure for spammers to bother.
is too obscure for spammers to bother
Not so sure about that.
I have seen huge amount of spam on "new" here in the past two months.