I sort of passively mod on a few telegram groups (by owner request I never applied)
Just deleting shit that's offensive or blatant spam.
Not wading in to conversations and throwing my opinion around.
There's probably plenty showing up with experience, not necessarily reddit experience.
A good first step might just to have coverage yo delete stuff that needs deleting - with a very lax approach until a bit of a culture is embedded that sets the vibe of the place.
I know I'm way too late, but seeing people ask for Otautahi makes me wonder if it would have been heckin cool to have Te Wai Pounamu, te whanaganui a tara and so forth for our regional stuff