Depends on the policy of the instance where you are creating the account, for example, beehaw doesn’t allow for creation of new communities but lemmy.ml does
beehaw has a strict policy on new communities, but you could create a new account on a another instance like sopuli.xyz and the create a new community there, then you can add your account on beehaw as a moderator
Can regular pepole create these communities or is it locked to admins or specific people?
I just came from the Reddit exodus so I am still understanding how this works
Depends on the policy of the instance where you are creating the account, for example, beehaw doesn’t allow for creation of new communities but lemmy.ml does
so on beehaw, how would I go about creating one? Requesting somewhere?
beehaw has a strict policy on new communities, but you could create a new account on a another instance like sopuli.xyz and the create a new community there, then you can add your account on beehaw as a moderator