Want to get yall’s feedback on community squatting.

There are a good amount of communities with zero posts, comments, etc, as well as some users who have created communities but aren’t trying to grow them or even post to them in any way.

I’d rather have the creators of communities be someone who’s at least contributing to them.

Some options are, occasionally deleting communities with little to no activity, or limiting modship to a small number of communities.

  • @diorama
    2•4 years ago

    I made a community to expressly park a name against predatory attitudes of “ethical publishers” (see this) in my native language/piece of land.
    I suggest to prevent brandjacking in this discussion. Please participate. :hugging face:

    • @diorama
      2•4 years ago

      Also: please please please enable [Link](http://a.com) in community titles e.g. for meta-community reference. :hugging face:

        • @diorama
          2•4 years ago

          thanks for the kindness and prompt reply! shall I remove my comment? what is th lemmyquette?

          • DessalinesOPMA
            2•4 years ago

            Haha you’re good, no need to remove comments :smiling face with sunglasses:

              • DessalinesOPMA
                1•4 years ago

                I don’t understand. That link works, its to the /c/italia community.

                • @diorama
                  1•4 years ago

                  I clarify: it is the title of #italia referring to #italy or #italiano, e.g. see the first line in card-body:

                  1. it is:
                    1.1. Italia - go to #italy or #italiano
                  2. I expect:
                    2.1. Italia - go to #italy or #italiano
                  • DessalinesOPMA
                    2•4 years ago

                    This uses markdown, so all links have to have the full link. I’m really unsure about re-working the markdown engine to do auto-parsing like that, I’d rather just have explicit markdown links.

                    Mastodon doesn’t support markdown which is why they have to do weird things like that.

    • @dirtfindr
      2•4 years ago

      Please give a different link.

      archive.is is a Tor-hostile CloudFlare site, and it cannot be circumvented by using Tor Browser or by using archive.org (which gives: “This page is not available on the web because of server error”).

      BTW to be clear, brandjacking benefits the human users of Lemmy. To oppose brandjacking is to put the interests of corporations above the interest of human beings. Non-biased control cannot be achived if the brand owner is in control of the community.

      • @diorama
        1•4 years ago

        Yes you are right.
        Also: the archiving default way of Lemmy is via archive.is. Would you mind to fork a post on /c/asklemmy ? <3