I’ve noticed a few communities where the mods haven’t ever contributed to the community (and its dead), or / and haven’t even posted anything to lemmy in years.
Just a FYI, you can ask Lemmy World admins to takeover ownership of communities community and actively moderate it, to help revive it
It seems there were a few people who simply grabbed the community names when Lemmy grew, and had to plans to contribute to them.
Some of the communities that were affected , I’ve seen have a lot of potential (like some of the larger linux distros).
That’s fair if they’re obscure, and if there are extra mods (or at least an attempt to get some). Like, I wanted to start c/plantarfascitis, and yeah, that would be dead.
However, some of the communities I took over, I took them over because there was only 1 mod, who had never even posted to that community, and they weren’t obscure topics (debian, redhat and Fedora actually)… And, the mod had never even posted
fedora and debian has so much happening constantly, it shouldn’t be dead for months… And I feel that if the mod hasn’t used them in 2 years, maybe its time to pass it on