I’ve come across some inactive communities on instances other than mine. A few I’ve thought would be worth restarting but I’m not sure how this works on Lemmy.

Alternatively, I thought about starting a new community under the same theme and growing a community there but, again, I am not sure if everyone is free to start a community or if it is something that you have to gain approval of your instance first.

  • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    29 days ago

    Are there any official or unofficial rules about starting a community? Do you have to get the support of your instance first or can you just start one? I can imagine someone wanting to start two or three different themed communities and the instance the user uses having different opinions about hosting one or the other: Being very happy about one but very opposed to another. And keeping an array of profiles on different instances just to avoid upsetting one instance or another wouldn’t be ideal.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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      29 days ago

      Unofficial? Don’t do what that person said. Follow the advice of others and request the dead community.

      Officially? No.

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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        29 days ago

        Don’t do what that person said. Follow the advice of others and request the dead community.

        I found that most dead communties’ moderators are also MIA. Kinda tough to request a dead community when nobody’s answering…

    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Every instance can do as they please. Check the current instance where the community is hosted. Or just start a new one on a different instance…