Having one community helps a lot with growth; a few people posting to a few small communities vs. all of them posting to the same larger community.

Once a community has momentum (ex. world news, technology), this is less important and having multiple communities all open at once isn't a big deal.

In this case, I think all the people from those communities want to see more content and discussion. If any of the communities listed above want to stay open for whatever reason, I'm sure people here will respect that choice too.

What is the purpose of such a report?

I don't like the drama or fights in the comments, but I find that communities like that serve as a way to start discussion about moving. Same as on centralized platforms (reddit), if mods are power tripping or making poor decisions, posts like that help with an organized move to a new space. The same place can be used if an instance goes down, a mod disappears, etc. The advantage of the Fediverse is that it's really easy to move to new communities if/when there are problems with a community/instance.

(posting with my alt since there are some federation issues with this post right now)

Post in any of them, or any combination of them.

You only seem to have two posts, is there another account where you post more?

What is the purpose of such a report? Seems like pointless drama in a decentralized environment.

Calling out power tripping mods, which allows people to switch to communities with better mods

Awesome!

How would you feel about adding additional moderators, perhaps those who were active contributors or moderators in EV communities on other instances?

I feel like additional mods could be good for redundancy, but the decision would ultimately be up to you and the slrpnk admins.

Thanks for your quick response! I think the next steps would be as follows:

• Write a short explanation post directing users to [email protected]
• Post and pin the explanation on [email protected]
• Lock (not delete) [email protected]. All existing posts stay up, but only mods can create new ones.
• Change the display name from 'Electric Vehicles' to '[Dormant] Electric Vehicles'.

Is this something you would be comfortable doing? Let me know if I can assist in any way.

Are there any specific reasons you prefer the world community over the slrpnk one? The general sentiment seems to be that moving communities off of the largest instances will strengthen the threadiverse overall.

Not everyone reads the sidebar before posting.

How would you feel about locking (not deleting) the community until it is needed? The community would still exist as a backup, and could be reopened if the need arose.

This could be done in conjunction with a link in the sidebar or a pinned post.

Thanks for your assistance!

these situations always make me a little nervous that I’m going to step on a user’s toes.

Yeah, that is a risk. I think we've done what we can though. We each tagged them in our respective posts/comments, and haven't heard from them.

They may have become a lurker.

It's possible, but my hunch is that this is not the case. They were active only between 2023-06-14 and 2023-07-25, and there is a user with the same name in The Other Place who is active in EV subs. I suspect they may be one of the people who tried out Lemmy briefly after the APIcalypse, and found that it didn't suit them.

If they ever become active on Lemmy again, they should be welcome to reopen the community, or join the moderation team of [email protected].

Would you consider editing the display name of the community to include '[Dormant community]'? It would make the status clearer in apps and other tools like lemmyverse.net.