Do we have a problem with squatters?
Do we have a problem with squatters?
There are a lot of communities that were created in the last week but never had any kind of interaction or their mods never started to post to attract people (they don't even have rules or a description).
Will there be some kind of cleanup or will it stay there until someone asks to take over it?
I've made a few magazines on kbin to protect from being taken by worse people than myself... I've also added a note in the sidebar/info that I have no intention of remaining moderator, and anyone who wants to take over (preferably with roots in the community elsewhere) can message me.
How do you think that is going to work?
Grabbing /m/javascript on kbin.social doesn't stop people creating /c/javascript on lemmy.world and /c/javascript on programming.dev
People will ignore subs with no posts and go to ones with actual content.
You've just created an entry for people to scroll past.
People will ignore subs with no posts and go to ones with actual content.
I doubt it. I looked for m/Brussels on fedia.io. Didn’t find it. My choice were:
- Create an acct somewhere that has m/Brussels so I could post; or
- Create m/Brussels & take on the burden and responsibility of moderation.
I favored option 2 because I’m not going to manually search hundreds of instances to see if it exists somewhere. #subrehab is a shit show and had nothing for Brussels anyway. So if I had found an existing but empty community I would have simply posted there with a low expectation (as opposed to not posting). I would at least have some reassurance that the post would be seen by someone (the mod).
@lavender can’t stop u/wolf from creating m/henhouse on some other instance but she can preempt that on kbin.social. OTOH, case matters, so if m/javascript is taken I think someone can create m/JavaScript which is rather unfortunate.
Is there any way a user could merge c/Javascript on one server with the same community on another so they don't have to have 20 subscriptions to c/Javascript on different servers to get all the content on lemmy? That would be really usefull and I don't see people using it otherwise.
Why don't we have one sub per instance anyway? Would be easier on both sides.