Since lemmy.fmhy.ml and lemmy.fmhy.net is no longer online. I would like to suggest lemmy.world and other instances to delete any communities and posts from these two instances that are cached.
The reason is that new lemmy users may join these communities as they find them in using the search on lemmy not knowing that they do not exist anymore since their domain name or hosting is forever gone.
Isn’t there a way to defederate but leave history intact? The fact that no new posts are coming from that source doesn’t mean there aren’t useful posts from when they were active/federated (that some users may have saved, etc.). As a general rule, the loss of information seems to me like a bad thing. Defederating should prevent new posts from reaching other servers, but not retroactively change what was already there.
As for new users subscribing: is should be something baked in the subscription mechanism, not letting you subscribe to something from a (currently) defederated server.
I think it manifests as the subscribe button forever saying “pending” wyou hit it
No I’m pretty sure that just happens sometimes.
But to the main point, I’d prefer historical context be preserved.