Is there anything that can be done about abandoned communities? In my search for a battlestation community there is one on Lemmy.ml where the only mod is someone who hasn’t posted in 3 years and one on lemmy.world where the only mod is someone who mass created communities and has no intention of posting or doing anything.
What recourse do the users of an instance have to taking control of such communities?
The good thing is Lemmy isn’t like Reddit where a subreddit becomes locked if inactive for an extended period of time. You could still post there and people who sort by new will see your content.
Even if the mod was active people would likely only see it by sorting through all or manually searching for it.
It wouldn’t be hard to find my post that’s for sure. It would be the only post. https://lemmy.world/c/battlestations
The person mass created communities and then left them to rot. I have no intention of posting until a mod exists there that isn’t inactive. Preferably they would add an icon and a banner so people don’t just ignore the community when searching for it.