Hello everyone. We are seeking volunteers to take over a number of abandoned communities. If you are interested in becoming a moderator of any of the communities listed below, please look for the “Moderator Needed” post in the community and add a comment. You will be responsible for monitoring the community, dealing with any objectionable posts and comments, and hopefully building it up as a lively space for your fellow Lemmy users.
You can moderate using an account from another instance. However, due to a bug in Lemmy you will not receive user reports from the community. To make your life easier you should consider using a sh.itjust.works account for moderating sh.itjust.works communities, at least until that bug is fixed.
If any of these communities remain abandoned then we will eventually remove them.
Un-moderated communities:
!hotlinemiami@sh.itjust.works
!politics@sh.itjust.works
!goodnewseveryone@sh.itjust.works
!goodolmemes@sh.itjust.works
!golf@sh.itjust.works
!lain@sh.itjust.works
!afx@sh.itjust.works
!lounge_music@sh.itjust.works
!vintagecomputing@sh.itjust.works
!thegreatsatanatlarge@sh.itjust.works
!daftpunk@sh.itjust.works
!pihole@sh.itjust.works
!minecraft@sh.itjust.works
!ace_combat@sh.itjust.works
Would it not be better to simply delete those communities and/or direct people to bigger/established communities instead? It would avoid making people join multiple communities in fear of missing some content out. I feel the fragmentation is holding lemmy back in some ways because there is no way that I know of to easily merge communities into a single one on the client side
In these specific instances I agree with you. The few I looked at were just single or no post communities. I think the mods just want to give these a chance in case anyone actually does want to take them over and breathe some life into them.
In general though, I think it’s healthy for the fediverse to have options, even with similar topics. I’m sure you might recall situations on Reddit where people didn’t like how a sub was moderated, so some people would set up r/TRUEwhatever.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I’d expect plenty of these to be deleted, but if a few of them have some life breathed into them that’s even better.