39 subs, jfc

Couldn't someone make alt accounts?

Having a rule against the mass creation of communities with malicious intent is not a big ask in my opinion. Or in the event of an abandoned community. This isn't some kind of quirk of instance policy, but a thing that will happen on all instances and should be dealt with by all instances. Otherwise the instance will be seen as lacking administration.

I'd also kind of argue that it would be desirable to encourage creating communities other than on one or two instances, that for load and reliability reasons, it'd be nice to leverage the federated nature of the network.

If someone is tying up "documentaries" on every lemmy and kbin instance, okay, fine, that's a legit concern. But if they have it on one and it's not very active and a would-be moderator thinks that they can make a more-appealing community, then why not just go make a better community on another instance?

I mean, it's creating a fight over a resource that (a) isn't scarce in the first place and (b) would probably be better-spread out anyway.

But there's people out there who want to be "top mod" and do zero work. It's like opening a lemonade stand but the only employee is a CEO that works from home.

They think since a community on reddit existed with that name, all they have to do is make a Lemmy community with the same name.

Mandler has not been active in a month. If you want any of the communities make a post there, tag me and I will add you as a moderator.

One of the worst things about Reddit was that you could make a subreddit for anything but peeling away any amount of users from the "main" sub was next to impossible and forget about new user traffic without having the "default" name. Therefore the mods of that sub become the defacto admins of that topic on reddit until they piss off enough people to really get an alternative moving. Many different subreddits were actively fucked up by bad moderation but users kept dog piling in because it had the basic name you would think to search for, i.e. "television" or "videos" or "movies" or what have you. That name is real estate on reddit because no one else can have it, and that keeps horrible mods entrenched.

I think we should encourage several hubs and stop worrying about "splitting" communities. We have the benefit here of letting different communities grow under the same name to avoid that situation where a shitty mod team gets unchallenged ownership. No one else could make a /r/sandiego, so they never shook that real estate free from its horrible mod. Here? That's not an issue.

For example, one of Lemmy.world's biggest communities was locked by the head mod and forced to a different instance to join with another community. Without input from the lemmy.world users. It's still sitting there in the communities list, locked, but high up on subscribers. Meanwhile the instance it was moved to is moderated much more strictly. Admins over there heavily "curate"; remove any post they don't think are worthy enough to be posted.

I think that community should be unlocked and a new moderator should be allowed to take over, so there's a different version of that community on a different instance, then people can have a choice between what type of moderation they want to exist under.

Edit: !android@lemmy.world

Edit2: Reworded this mess for clarity

But there are options?

• Tag me in a community you think is abandoned.
• Post in !support@lemmy.world or !moderators@lemmy.world
• send an email to info@mastodon.world

We might not always react as fast as you like but this isn't our job it's a hobby project and sometimes there are other, more important issues that have to be handled first. But we will get to it! Cheers

In most cases they are not going to respond either because they are inactive or they are intentionally squatting the names for whatever reason. They can't respond or they don't want to.