Is it worth making a new community on this instance if there is an existing community elsewhere but there hasn't been any posts for 5 months and the moderator is away?
I'd say try reviving the group by posting there yourself for a while. There's probably a few people who are still subscribed to it, so you'll get more eyeballs right out of the box than you would starting a fresh one.
You're free to make a new community if you want, but there are a couple things you could try first.
Once you've taken over a community, you should make sure it doesn't just die again. post there regularly and advertise it on the following locations:
Good luck! Feel free to ask around if you need more help!
Instance admins can transfer ownership of communities, so if the existing one already has a good amount of subscribers I think I would try getting in contact with instance admins first.
Go for it :)
The other option would be to take over the existing community, which can be helpful if a lot of people are subscribed already. That way you don't have to build it up from scratch. You would contact the admins of the instance that it's on, and they'll make you a mod.
If the other one has a low subscriber count, then there's no downside to just making it again
Out of curiosity, which community is it?
It doesn't even load properly
FYI that's normal behavior.
Yea I would just make it again for that one. There are ~180 subscribers but I think you can make that up with some care and attention with the new community :)
Feel free to promote it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world once you make it!
!yoga@lemmy.world is the correct way to link to the community.
Sure, why not?
If you have a de facto dead community, any attempts to revive it (either via existing communities or via new ones) seem like good developments.