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Do we have a problem with squatters? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
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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?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have made an attempt at populating them, they’re not necessarily empty. There are reasons to scroll past entries other than content, i.e. the instance they’re on. Plenty of people ignore certain domains altogether.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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:

  1. Create an acct somewhere that has m/Brussels so I could post; or
  2. 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.