Do we have a problem with squatters?

3 years ago by iorale to c/general_discussion

There are a lot of communities that were created in the last week but never had any kind of interaction or their mods never started to post to attract people (they don't even have rules or a description).
Will there be some kind of cleanup or will it stay there until someone asks to take over it?

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Afkargh 0 points 3 years ago

I've grabbed a couple in the hopes that I can keep the bots at bay until I can either grow them or hand off to an owner that do the same. I was concerned about bots taking them.

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stevecrox 4 points 3 years ago

How do you think that is going to work?

Grabbing /m/javascript on kbin.social doesn't stop people creating /c/javascript on lemmy.world and /c/javascript on programming.dev

People will ignore subs with no posts and go to ones with actual content.

You've just created an entry for people to scroll past.

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Kill_joy 0 points 3 years ago

You're pointing out flaws in the fediverse, not in the user's way of thinking.

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