Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?
justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 6 months agocreated various identical communities on various instances…most of which went on to gain no traffic whatsoever
I just want to add here that users can adopt abandoned communities to give them a second chance. So if, in your example, the mods of !nerves@lemmy.world would rage quit and just squat on the name out of spite / indifference, then someone interested in cleaning up the mess can go to !support@lemmy.world and request to adopt the community. The admins can then decide to either directly transfer mod rights to the new user, or purge the community so another one can reopen it again, so there is technically no need to create additional communities in such a case.
In case of a direct transfer, no posts or comments get deleted either, so you won’t lose content that you would otherwise have to repost or crosspost to the “new default community”. ;)
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
On my home instance there was a call for mods for take over communities that had been created and apparently abandoned, both with and without content. “If no one steps up, we’ll just delete the ones without content and make the names available again for the future.”
In practice, it’s not much of a problem.