I see communities with almost no posts and the only moderator deleted their account. Shouldn’t these be deleted?
I see no problem. As a user, I can just sort by most active communities when searching them.
Deleting communities to free server space also means deleting our history, doesn’t seem very nice.
Personal opinion: despite being empty and inactive, these comunities are still some sort of a history. And history is not deleted here unless it is strictly against rules. + I haven’t seen that admins are able to delete accounts or communities here at all, only ban them.
Also, Lemmy is a collection of instances not 1 big site. So an inactive community might be out of the reach of some admins
I haven’t seen that admins are able to delete accounts or communities here at all, only ban them.
Makes sense. Decentralized thing
Why would they?
I think abandoned communities just spend server space, right? This and unused accounts.
Unless it was a hugely popular community with years and years of content posted to it, not just text but videos and photos etc, the server space some text posts and usernames take up is a rounding error.
An inactive community barely uses any space
Ah, yes, got it. Thanks :)
Honestly, posts and users don’t take that much space on disk, especially relative to images. I rarely bother to clean abandoned communities on my instance.
Instance admins can appoint new moderators to any community if/when someone wants to take over one of the currently dead ones. That’s why many instances have a
community_requestscommunity, where anyone can request mod rights for a community that no longer has an active moderator.
