Being a newcomer and seeing as there is an increased amount of users migrating from reddit I wanted to see if there is one, or create a community.
I have found that the community going by country name, has only one user, one mod and that mod is flagged as banned.
Additionally, they are the sole moderator of similar communities by name as to somewhat gatekeep them, I supposed.
What is the course of action from freeing up these communities? Or is it just better to create a new one in another instance and be done with it?
Someone suggested that I request the community through !community_requests@lemmy.ml which, by looking at the previous posts and/or comments, seems to be working fine for people.
I will have to try and get the community back from the dead.
That is indeed the place to request it!
The point of federation though, is to spread things out so that no one instance has total control and all the burden of all the communities. Lemmy.ml is already feeling the load from an admin and hardware perspective. Creating a new community on a different instance lightens the work for the lemmy.ml staff and brings more attention to another instance. This strengthens the entire fediverse. You do you if you are dead set on having it on lemmy.ml.
I wish you the best, in both personal and lemmy life.
That’s true, but as you can only create communities on your own instance, I don’t blame anyone not wanting to make a new account.