this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2021
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True, but one thing I think the Lemmy.ml admins is doing wrong is opening the creation of communities to everyone. Lemmy have less than 4k active users, but more than 2000 community. that's less than 2 users for each community, so its fair to say that its stretched thin.
If I was them, I'd only allow "Community requesting", where people need to get approval before creating a community. /c/Memes exist? Applying for /c/Dankmemes is rejected. Until there is a substantial number of users, it would remain 1 community per topic. Might be a bit too restrictive for some tastes, but it is necessary imho.
or just delete communities with low or no users, no posts, and the admin has been dormant ever since creation.
It adds an overhead for the moderators, approving or denying all these requests, I think going with facebook solution of showing how active are communities in the search results is good enough.
But i think you could probably create a "middle man" server that implements this, it could sent requests to the front end from the regular lemmy server but when you try to create a community it would take over (and will be able to save relevant information).