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Blaze@piefed.zip 2 weeks agoIt doesn’t need to be that complicated. Most communities can be requested on instance support communities.
What usually happens is - community owner doesn’t want to close it, even if it’s inactive - nobody cares enough to request that community
fonix232@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
The issue with that is as you explained: it's up to the instance admins (who often don't care and/or are too busy to deal with it), and visibility due to it happening on instance support community is low.
Bake it into the service, and I guarantee you, average uptake of new moderators for stale communities will improve.
Blaze@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
I would take the bet. I’ve been discussing with other mods/community builders on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip for more than two years now. If someone isn’t motivated enough to request the community on an instance community, they are not going to last long as mods. Not that it’s a bad thing, moderating is not for everyone, but it still needs a bit of motivation.