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What can be done about people who create a community and then abandon it? (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SpezCanLigmaBalls to c/lemmyworld

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] Ryumast3r 12 points 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.