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Community creation questions (midwest.social)

submitted 2 years ago by hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social

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The option to create a community is right up on top of my screen. That implies to me that it's a thing any of us can just do. I'm new here, though, and I don't wanna make a faux pas or whatever. I have questions.

Is there accepted etiquette around who creates a community or when?
How general-interest should communities on midwest.social remain?
Might creating more communities right now exacerbate the high CPU usage problems in any way?

It's probably actually impressive how little I know about subreddit moderation, to say nothing of Lemmy community moderation. I just don't want to incessantly ask things of a small number of people during an anomalous influx of instance traffic that's probably already demanding enough.

Which... I guess is what this post is. Woof. Sorry. Just wanna be a good citizen!

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[–] planetaryprotection@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What happens when a community gets abandoned? I.e. someone creates a community, appoints no other mods, and then abandons Lemmy/that account. I assume a server admin can take the reigns and appoint a new mod(s)?

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, admins can transfer communities.