Thought this required its own post as we might need to create a new community.
I managed to get in contact with the creator of the community (same username on reddit). I don’t think he’s coming back to lemmy. He’s offered to delete the community if that frees up the name for us to create an identical community on lemmy.world. I don’t know if that’s possible or if the community can be transferred to another user instead.
Staying on lemmy.world seems like a good idea imo as new arrivals will gravitate towards that.
Anyone have any ideas of the best way forward? Anyone fancy being an admin/mod lol?
Edit: He might not be permanently gone. Just coming back every once in a while.
Here’s the conversation if anyone is interested.
https://i.ibb.co/sPQgCc0/Screenshot-20230704-124927-Boost.jpg
I would try contacting one of the admins here and explain the situation to them. They should be able to add you as an mod on c/football, if they think that’s a good solution. I think @ruud is one of the admins.
You could also ask the mod to add you as a mod. He should be able to click on the three dots of this post and see an option to make you a mod.
Either one of those is better that than having the mod wipe out this community so it can be recreated. That seems kinda crazy.
I don’t really have any interest in becoming a mod tbh. After the post from a few days ago, I was just wondering what will happen to the community if there is no one to steer the ship.
If we start getting spam or something we’re stuck with it. If the community starts to grow we’re stuck just making standard posts without stickied posts, no bot accounts to make regular posts etc.
I can try to help with bots or something but I’m no expert.