It seems like you care about !Hacking@lemmy.ml . Why don't you head over !community_requests@lemmy.ml and ask to become the moderator here? You'll probably get it easily as @qarmah didn't show any activity in the past three years.
Then you can set out the rules and influence the culture here, build a team of mods and make this a nice place. I'm trying to do the same on !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml (and yes, I got the moderator rights a few days after requesting. In a funny turn of events, the original moderator popped up again as well. I did an open call for mods, and there are 5 mods in total now.
