There are many dead or entirely empty communities on Lemmy.world. Many of which seem to have been founded simply to squat the space here on the Fediverse. This has come to my attention when I noticed that many communities I have requested moderationship of have been founded by a single account.

While I would love it if the fediverse were able to support so many communities, many of these empty spaces are only minor deviations within single topics, at most containing a singular post calling for moderators. My opinion as a proponent for the Fediverse is that a community should first justify it’s existence to be made, and evidently, I do not believe that there is capacity to justify these communities currently.

For example, the account, @[email protected] (i.e ‘community creator’), is the sole moderator and founder of a large amount of communities which are exemplary of those which fail to justify their founding. Many of these communities are in fact, miniscule deviations that may be served by a single community, which can be seen as this account moderates over twenty Call of Duty communities.

I am not familiar with Lemmy’s administrative tools, and this is simply a proposal; but if it is both possible, and the admins are willing, I believe it would be best if communities could be requested for deletion. I would, personally, be glad to identify unnecessary communities, which I could propose for deletion. My approach would include a rationale for each proposal, so that the admin team may make an informed decision without being expected to put in undue effort.