Someone created the ChronicPain community and then abandoned it. I have messaged this person with no response. They haven’t posted, commented, or anything since they made it.

It’s probably a widespread issue but ChronicPain is a support group for those who suffer from it. Is the only real option to create a second one or can someone who abandons a community be removed?

  • Old Man Fire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 years ago

    this is going to be happening a lot with the way that reddit is going right now. lots of community names are being squatted by trolls for no reason than to piss other poeple off.

    what you can do tho is ask the administrators of the instance, in this case Ruud

    • CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      35·
      2 years ago

      I feel like Redditers aren’t doing it on purpose. They just want all the niche communities they’re accustomed to not really thinking about the work it takes to get them started and rolling or moderate

      • Old Man Fire@lemmy.worldEnglish
        152·
        2 years ago

        lol yeh, good point. i read in another thread that the people that are doing it are gamers (with all the negative stereotypes that go with it) and aren’t exactly known for their thinking ability

      • CoderKat@kbin.social
        11·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I’m sure lots of it is people starting a community with genuine intentions, but then they decide “actually, I don’t wanna use this site anymore”, so they abandon it and will never see your messages.

        I think more of it may happen because there’s likely plenty of people who came to the Fediverse sites because of the Reddit blackout and then will just go back to Reddit. IMO it’s important that server admins have an easy way to reassign communities.

      • jclinares@kbin.social
        31·
        2 years ago

        I think it’s, like, 50-50. Even with the blackout, I’ve seen a bunch of morons on Reddit trying to usurp moderation by being admin bootlickers and requesting a subreddit. It’s always kinda surprising what people are willing to do for fake internet points, and being “in charge” of something.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Admins can purge communities, freeing up the name for other uses.

      However, I’m really not sure how that works with federation.

      • Ryumast3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        It works on the individual instance, which for all intents and purposes means it works for everyone since everyone can see the instance.

        You just have to make sure you’re pinging the right admin for your instance. In this case it’s ruud I believe for lemmy.world

      • Rhaedas@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        This is my understanding - federated sites push out their content, so just like a new post will propagate into any place it is subscribed, a deleted community/magazine will also propagate (and I suppose remove the subscriptions? Just as housekeeping). I know I’ve seen that is how removal of prohibited topics would work, so it should be the same.

      • hardypart@feddit.de
        2·
        2 years ago

        This shouldn’t be done arbitrarily, sure, but there should be some rules in place for these things. Like, two weeks of unresponsiveness by the mods for example.

  • retiolus@lemmy.cat
    23·
    2 years ago

    The way Lemmy works, a bit like Reddit in the end, the server administrators own each community more than the moderators, so yes, they can remove a moderator and put in a new one.

    If that doesn’t suit you, unlike Reddit, you can create your own server or simply switch to another one.

    • vyvanse@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      The more I learn about the fediverse the more advantages I see. If something goes wrong it’s actually possible to move to another instance.

      • Hypersapien@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Can the creator of a community move their community, along with all the posts and comments, to another instance?

        • lhx@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 years ago

          I don’t think those migration tools are written yet. But I would imagine they are on Lemmy’s roadmap.

  • minim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    2 years ago

    You can make a non-dead version of the community on another instance!

    • jinno@kbin.social
      81·
      2 years ago

      But what if it’s dead on my instance, and I don’t want to make an account on another instance for the sake of managing a community?

      • vyvanse@kbin.social
        71·
        2 years ago

        As a sort of workaround you could create the community on a new account and then add your current account as a mod

  • dill@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    You could create a community with a slightly different name as the abandoned one.