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.

    • 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.

          • @diorama
            1•4 years ago

            I also tried this community title w/o success: Italia - go to [#italy](/c/italy) or [#italiano](/c/italiano)

            • DessalinesOPMA
              2•4 years ago

              Oh sorry, yeah no markdown support for community names or titles. Only for comment, post bodies, message bodies, sidebars etc.

              You’d need to put this in your community sidebar.

              I also wanna say that name-squatting like that is discouraged. Someone might want to make or build that community.

              • @diorama
                2•4 years ago

                OK I can delete it after a clarification. It is name parking on purpose (redirecting to a language community and a topic community) made to avoid brandjacking.
                Reference here: https://lemmy.ml/post/32994

                • DessalinesOPMA
                  2•4 years ago

                  Italy isn’t really a brand tho, its a country. Someone might want to make an alternate italy community, this happens a lot on reddit when people don’t like the moderation of their local / country subs.

                  I understand the need to stop brandjacking, but luckily in our federation builds we use the fully qualified usernames / community names, so people are going to know its the real one.

                  • @diorama
                    2•4 years ago

                    Yes you are right. The analogy does not hold. I am going to delete the community. :hugging face:

              • @diorama
                2•4 years ago

                Because I made them work! I did:

                I leave as suggestion these 2 others community:  
* [#italy](/c/italy)  
* [#italiano](/c/italiano)

                But if I do the following in the card-body:

                I leave as suggestion these 2 others community:  
* #italia
* #italiano

                it does not link to the communities.