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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hold on, maybe i am misunderstanding how things work but i have 0 interests in starting my own community but i was hoping to setup my own server just to host my own account. Reason is become fully independent and to not be a burden on someone else server. This way of using lemmy was strongly encouraged by users at the beginning of the reddit exodus when the lemmy.ml instance was being overrun.

I am still somewhat confused about the relation between instances/server and communities so maybe it doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Intances are running your own mini-reddit, communities are the subreddits created on a single instance.

If you make your own instance and make some communities on it, we will have no control over it (aside from blocking or defederating the entire instance).

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

The proposed idea here seemed to be to defederate instances which have no interactions happening in them. Where would that leave me as my instance would be empty just for my account i use to interact with communities in other instances.

One of the main benefits i hoped to get is that i am not dependent on admins to make choices outside of my control (like beehaw defederating) and instead i can defederate based on my own will only. but if my instance gets auto defederated because it appears empty then there is no point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope I think you misunderstood. OP is asking about inactive communities on lemmy.fmhy.ml itself, inactive communities on another instance has no impact here. You are welcome to create your own single user instance, it's infact encouraged in fediverse to balance the load.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh that makes so much more sense. Thank you for your help!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that's a fair take. The main concern is that some people take popular sounding community names in the hopes of becoming mod of a famous community, with no intention of growing it themselves.

As for ctrl-clicking, not sure what the problem is since I can open a new tab with it just fine. I don't think that's something we can change on our end anyways.

Edit: oops replied to wrong person my bad