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I'd also like to remind you all of donating to Lemmy's developers, whether it's via Patreon, Liberapay, crypto or other methods. They work full-time with this brilliant open-source software, and as there are no ads, donating is the only way to ensure it.

Haluaisin myös muistuttaa teitä kaikkia lahjoittamisesta Lemmyn kehittäjille, oli se sitten Patreonin, Liberapayn, kryptovaluutan tai muun keinon kautta. He työskentelevät täysipäiväisesti tämän loistavan avoimen lähdekoodin ohjelmiston parissa, ja kun mainoksia ei ole, lahjoittaminen on ainoa tapa tämän varmistamiseksi.

Listaan on muuten lipsahtanut pieni kirjoitusvirhe: !NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz ohjautuu väärin koska lukee NiceNemes

For the communities that we don’t find any people to moderate we will add a sticky post with information on how to adopt these communities and hopefully redirect people to an active community that has a somewhat similar purpose/topic.

There seems to be quite a few completely empty communities on that list and while they have some subscribers I don't think it's worthwhile to keep them around. At least for random few I checked there's already alternatives on other instances with same name so at least I don't see any value on keeping an empty shell just in case.

I think the Fediverse/Lemmyverse needs a general solution or protocol to handle this situation. I would like to see a canned plan for what will happen to these communities if they aren't claimed, and a timeline for when.

I think there needs to be some means of archiving abandoned communities so that they become read-only, but are still indexed and searchable on the fediverse (there might be perfectly good information and history that we want to preserve for future denizens of the Fediverse (fedizens?).

Then in the future, if someone comes along and tries to make a new community with the same name on the same instance, either:

1. The old community gets revived under new management, or
2. The old community posts remain read-only, perhaps all old posts get "versioned" or "generationed" in some way so that it's clear they happened under prior management, but are included in the history of the new community that is "masking" its name.

I like some version of option 2, personally.

The problem of random communities coming and going over time will never end for lemmy, and for the future of the fediverse I think it's important we come up with a solution that doesn't involve either making ad-hoc requests for new leadership or deleting the communities entirely.

Just my two cents, thanks again for your efforts!

Edit: I notice some of these communities are literally empty. I feel like those should just be autodeleted after a certain amount of time. It's basically the same as if the mod never made it.

Football on Sopuli is active and has got active mods already (they migrated from .ee). You may already close Soccer and redirect to Football.

What would it entail? I've moderated on other platforms before but not on the fediverse :)

Can't take any more communities sorry, but if it's possible/wanted, !arab@sopuli.xyz could be consolidated with !arabs@lemmy.dbzer0.com, the only active arab community as of now. No pressure, just an idea.

!arabic@sopuli.xyz while unmoderated, does look interesting. I'll keep an eye on posts (if there are any lol) thanks!

I'd be happy to take over Spanish if that's okay

Happy to take on wicca@sopuli.xyz

I'd like to take Netflix and Linux Mint, I've made posts on both just now.

thanks for your help in the other post!

I wouldn't mind modding !spanish@sopuli.xyz, although it doesn't seem very active :P

Same for !atheism@sopuli.xyz

Edit: 1000 communities and someone asked for spanish before me. Dang.

I only use Lemmy every few days, so I'm maybe not the best choice, but I would like to convey my feelings on !veganism@sopuli.xyz using the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer:

What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

I'd like to adopt the community.

Also, Wicca and Alchemy belong in the spirituality category.