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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 with 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.

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 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 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.

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

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

Can't take any more communities sorry, but if it's possible/wanted, !arab@sopuli.xyz could be consolidated with !arabs@lemmy.dbzer0.com, the only active arab community as of now. No pressure, just an idea.

!arabic@sopuli.xyz while unmoderated, does look interesting. I'll keep an eye on posts (if there are any lol) thanks!

!cplusplus@sopuli.xyz should probably be deleted and/or merged into https://programming.dev/c/cpp

I was hoping to get some Finnish C++ forum active there to differentiate, but since mine is the only post, I don't think it's going to catch on.

Though I don't mind taking the mod hat if there is interest for Finnish C++ forum at some point.

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

Happy to take on wicca@sopuli.xyz

Voisin ottaa vaikkapa Estonian (joka on toinen äidinkieleni) ja Translator. Saako muuten yhteisöjen nimiä vaihtaa? Samalla muuttuisi tietenkin yhteisön tarkoitus, mutta tuo Translator on sellainen, että se ei kerro oikein mitään. Facebook (anteeksi ruma sana) on väärällään jotain käännösryhmiä, jossa ei-kääntäjät tarjoavat palvelujaan eikä sellainen ole mistään kotoisin. Minusta parempi yhteisö olisi Translation Studies eli käännöstiede, jossa saa keskustella kääntämisestä tieteenalana ja ilmiönä. t. opiskelen alaa.

English: I can take Translator (which I'd love to re-name to Translation Studies) and Estonian. I won't promise that the communities will get huge amounts of new members, but I can post some content to get things started. It ain't much but it's honest work!

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.

!python@sopuli.xyz should probably be consolidated towards !python@programming.dev.

I don't know what the !mead@sopuli.xyz was supposed to be about but if it is meant to be about making mead it is unnecessary because there is already !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

We agreed that it should stay general for everything beer, mead, wine ... until there is really demand for splitting it to neache community's.

Mi parolas esperanto iomete, tial mi povus moderigxi esperanto@sopuli.xyz 🫠 I often play TF2 so you know 🫣

So I guess one should have a Sopuli.xyz account to be a moderator huh ??

Because I am kind of interested in moderating tech-based communities (esp. Privacy ones)

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.

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!

Between these, I can take on the Termux community!