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

submitted 2 years 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] -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

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