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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] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s expected? Are we supposed to go out and recruit people before starting a community? I don’t see the practicality of that. A slow start is normal. Kbin is small. The sign of a deadbeat moderator is a mod that neglects to remove spam-- not a mod who does not produce content. Producing content is not the mods job AFAIK.

I created m/Brussels & happen to be an activist. Most of what I have to say (at least at the moment) is high temp activism stuff. I could easily flood the channel with this stuff but then it would be an imbalance & deter activity. Hopefully a few people join and bring some chatter on boring topics to balance it out.

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

Community squatting can be favorable in some cases. Consider the bias of (for example) letting a representive of PepsiCo control a mag “m/Pepsi”. That moderator would censor anything critical of Pepsi. The narrative would be one-sided & pro-Pepsi. I would rather see m/Pepsi go to some random squatter than people from an official org.

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

I don't wanna say this is how somebody ends up buying knock-off Pepsi from a forum, but this might be the only way that could happen 😅

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

Well but the reality is that /more/ people will buy knock-off Pepsi if PepsiCo allows critical posts to be seen. When they censor for brand-protection, no one knows except the person they censored. Sure the quietly censored people (who likely already boycott Pepsi) will boycott but everyone else unwittingly enjoys their Pepsi-loving forum.

Unlike #Reddit there is a mod log. That helps a little but probably not many users look at that.