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Happy to take on wicca@sopuli.xyz

I'd be happy to take over Spanish if that's okay

What would it entail? I've moderated on other platforms before but not on the fediverse :)

I wouldn't mind modding !spanish@sopuli.xyz, although it doesn't seem very active :P

Same for !atheism@sopuli.xyz

Edit: 1000 communities and someone asked for spanish before me. Dang.

Football on Sopuli is active and has got active mods already (they migrated from .ee). You may already close Soccer and redirect to Football.

I think the Fediverse/Lemmyverse needs a general solution or protocol to handle this situation. I would like to see a canned plan for what will happen to these communities if they aren't claimed, and a timeline for when.

I think there needs to be some means of archiving abandoned communities so that they become read-only, but are still indexed and searchable on the fediverse (there might be perfectly good information and history that we want to preserve for future denizens of the Fediverse (fedizens?).

Then in the future, if someone comes along and tries to make a new community with the same name on the same instance, either:

1. The old community gets revived under new management, or
2. The old community posts remain read-only, perhaps all old posts get "versioned" or "generationed" in some way so that it's clear they happened under prior management, but are included in the history of the new community that is "masking" its name.

I like some version of option 2, personally.

The problem of random communities coming and going over time will never end for lemmy, and for the future of the fediverse I think it's important we come up with a solution that doesn't involve either making ad-hoc requests for new leadership or deleting the communities entirely.

Just my two cents, thanks again for your efforts!

Edit: I notice some of these communities are literally empty. I feel like those should just be autodeleted after a certain amount of time. It's basically the same as if the mod never made it.

For the communities that we don’t find any people to moderate we will add a sticky post with information on how to adopt these communities and hopefully redirect people to an active community that has a somewhat similar purpose/topic.

There seems to be quite a few completely empty communities on that list and while they have some subscribers I don't think it's worthwhile to keep them around. At least for random few I checked there's already alternatives on other instances with same name so at least I don't see any value on keeping an empty shell just in case.

I'd like to take Netflix and Linux Mint, I've made posts on both just now.

thanks for your help in the other post!

I'm surprised there are this many communities on Sopuli.

I checked out 10 that I might be interested in and none of them had posts during the last year, some of them never.

I only use Lemmy every few days, so I'm maybe not the best choice, but I would like to convey my feelings on !veganism@sopuli.xyz using the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer:

What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

I'd like to adopt the community.

Also, Wicca and Alchemy belong in the spirituality category.

Between these, I can take on the Termux community!

I'd be happy to take over !gai@sopuli.xyz. I hadn't realized there was a sopuli community for it, or I would have already been sharing some interesting articles there. I made a post here.

I'd also be happy to help as a moderator for !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz. I don't have as much to contribute there, but I've always enjoyed following that community. It might be better to have a lead mod there that is more active within the community though, so if anyone else wants that position I'd be happy to concede it to them. I have a comment here.

A lot of the smaller communities here sound really interesting as well, but are completely devoid of posts. I agree with some of the other comments here that I think those communities should be retired, let someone else restart them later if they're motivated to foster a new community.

Listaan on muuten lipsahtanut pieni kirjoitusvirhe: !NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz ohjautuu väärin koska lukee NiceNemes

I am very interested in !collapse@sopuli.xyz as I am a geologist and understand the physics/material reality of the cliff the earth has irrevocably launched itself off of.

I would be a new moderator, and I know this might be a touchy one to start with, but this is a topic I find I am driven to understand lucidly to a point most other people can't handle thinking about because the reality is so hopelessly brutal.

Offer is open, I know I have lots of strong opinions and comment lots so I understand any reaction to this, but if no one else is interested I am willing.

I'd also like to remind you all of donating to Lemmy's developers, whether it's via Patreon, Liberapay, crypto or other methods. They work full-time to make this brilliant open-source software, and as there are no ads, donating is the only way to ensure it.

Haluaisin myös muistuttaa teitä kaikkia lahjoittamisesta Lemmyn kehittäjille, oli se sitten Patreonin, Liberapayn, kryptovaluutan tai muun keinon kautta. He työskentelevät täysipäiväisesti tämän loistavan avoimen lähdekoodin ohjelmiston parissa, ja kun mainoksia ei ole, lahjoittaminen on ainoa tapa tämän varmistamiseksi.