Disclaimer:
Rebel Moon is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to an actual Star War, living or dead, is purely coincidental
Edited to remove some erroneous results, but it's perhaps by-the-by, since federation seems noticeably worse since 0.19. 'Resolve_Object' doesn't seem to make any effort to retrieve a remote community that the instance hasn't already heard of. e.g.:
curl --request GET --url 'https://feddit.nl/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https://reddthat.com/c/dirtroads' --header 'accept: application/json'
gets
{"error":"couldnt_find_object"}
every time
You can use the web-ui to force through a blank version, but a community without any posts isn't much use.
My mum is really into recycling, so she's obviously a big fan of Lemmy's meme communities, ha ha ha.
Yeah, sorry, I've been feeling out of sorts lately. I'll always sticky something that anyone else suggests of course.
I'll create something for this Wednesday (give me an hour or so).
Posts from the past couple of days were MIA due to federation issues from feddit.nl (related to the 0.19 upgrade, I think).
Re: [email protected] - they'll be the odd crazy stat like this for a while, 'cos a dead community will only have 1 or 2 active users irrespective of how you're measuring them. The first new post in a such a community will spike the Active Users level, which I can't accommodate for because the 'first new post' can happen at literally any time. In future though, levels will be averaged out by similar levels of negative growth and will have to compete with more communities measuring things in the new way.
Re: [email protected] - from the instance I'm currently on (lemmy.world), there only appears to be 19 posts from 3 months ago (same as on other big instances I've tried). Visiting the site directly, there's loads more, but they haven't come through because there's apparently no subscribers from lemmy.world (which is the way it's supposed to work, I guess)
I had the benefit of seeing it without knowing anything about it, so enjoyed watching it trying to figure out what kind of movie it was going to be.
I can see why people have responded negatively to it, but I think I'll always like Sam Esmail's technically accomplished direction of his projects (i.e. Mr. Robot, Homecoming, and now this film)
lemmynsfw has implemented (or intends to) an interesting compromise, in that you can only downvote posts on that instance's communities that you're already subscribed to. Ideally, this means that downvotes are for the quality of the individual post, rather than as a reaction to the type of content.
Ha, this is me. I did exactly that (with a community for the TV show Andor) and am guilty of the behaviour you describe.
I've probably been thinking along the same lines as you and OP though, 'cos I deleted the community a couple of days ago. I realized that if I had something more to say about that show, it doesn't belong in it's own niche community, or 'Star Wars TV', or 'Star Wars', or even 'Television'. Perhaps a 'Movies&TV' comm, although - at this rate - maybe even 'entertainment' would be best.
I'm starting to think that instances that limit community creation to admins have the right idea (e.g. Beehaw, or - to use a non-federated example - tildes).
Some instances have started 'Community Teams', but I sense that anytime they discover a dead community, their instinct is to find ways to promote it, get new mods, drive engagement etc, whereas I'm more of the opinion that they should be nuked and consolidated (along the lines of what the 'cooking' communities have tried to do, I suppose).
From 'Hard Stare' to 'Thousand Yard Stare'
Edgar Wright said a similar thing recently: that the best thing they could do with superhero films is take a break, and wait for audiences to become excited about them again.
Please use his full name: Anakin Psycho-Cunt (apparently).
A sketch called 'These Guys Don't Know Star Wars' (available on YouTube). Much like Rebel Moon, it's surprisingly long.