The option to create a community is right up on top of my screen. That implies to me that it’s a thing any of us can just do. I’m new here, though, and I don’t wanna make a faux pas or whatever. I have questions.

  1. Is there accepted etiquette around who creates a community or when?
  2. How general-interest should communities on midwest.social remain?
  3. Might creating more communities right now exacerbate the high CPU usage problems in any way?

It’s probably actually impressive how little I know about subreddit moderation, to say nothing of Lemmy community moderation. I just don’t want to incessantly ask things of a small number of people during an anomalous influx of instance traffic that’s probably already demanding enough.

Which… I guess is what this post is. Woof. Sorry. Just wanna be a good citizen!

  • seahorse [Ohio]MA
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    1 year ago

    Feel free to make pretty much whatever community you want to. Shouldn’t increase cpu. Just be aware that you’ll be the mod of any community you make.

    • hrimfaxi_workOP
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      1 year ago

      Well then I hope you people like making fun of and embracing the insanity of stupid houses. Any reason not to simply cop the name of the subreddit I’d be ripping off?

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      1 year ago

      What happens when a community gets abandoned? I.e. someone creates a community, appoints no other mods, and then abandons Lemmy/that account. I assume a server admin can take the reigns and appoint a new mod(s)?