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Quite a few comments here about this, but thought I'd give a perspective as someone who started a couple of communities which have mostly proved pretty quiet.
This is sort of me - although I haven't walked away, there's just nothing much to moderate.
I joined Lemmy as the momentum was building for the blackout protest in Reddit and, as I suspect many did, went looking for equivalent subs to those I was used to.
Two that I frequented regularly were for Arrested Development and MST3K, and not finding them on any instance, I decided to start them up here.
This was primarily to help people coming across from Reddit, perhaps just to have a tentative look at Lemmy, to feel like the places they were used to would be here too. I also made a few initial posts to try and provoke discussion, with minor, but non-zero success.
I was upfront about not having any mod experience, and from the start, I invited those who ran the subs on Reddit to get in touch if they wanted to do it here too.
One MST3K mod did just that, so now we are both mods, and the community does have a regular, if slow, trickle of submissions.
The AD community is quieter, but we have had a few posts, including one a few days ago, which was nice!
I guess, what I'm wondering is how much responsibility people feel mods have (or should have) to be generating content for the community on a regular basis? Genuinely, I'm not sure - I was a little concerned about it just being me shouting into the wind, partly because it can feel pointless, and partly because I didn't want to seem like I was dominating things.
Anyway, I just wanted to give an alternate viewpoint to those which are suggesting that people became mods as a power trip or whatever. That's certainly not the case for me - ideally, I don't even particularly want to be a mod, but I did want the communities to have a foothold for people arriving to Lemmy with no idea what to expect.
There's a big difference between creating 2 communities and creating 20.
Ah, well yeah, hard to argue with that!