**Why YSK: ** I’ve noticed a few communities which have been abandoned by the mods entirely (the ones I’ve seen, have only been a single mod). This means the community never gets the traction it deserves.

Just a FYI, you can ask Lemmy World admins for ownership of communities community and actively moderate it, to help revive them, if you believe they are no longer being moderated

Some general indicators are:

  1. No Comments / posts by the mod in years
  2. There is only 1 mod in the community, but, no posts by them whatsoever
  3. There has never been a post at all (even if you check old).

I’ve seen a few communities now with a lot of potential (like c/debian), and some of those communities even have regular contributors (who may not have even realized yet that the mods likely disappeared years ago).

Even if you don’t think you can post super regularly, posting every few weeks is better than a community with no ongoing posts.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    10 days ago

    This means the community never gets the traction it deserves.

    Honestly, I think that the larger problem with communities not getting traction is a lack of users posting, not a lack of moderation.

    Yeah, in theory, uncontrolled spam can drive users away, leave the place dead except for spam. But I can’t think of a single community I’ve personally seen on the Threadiverse where that’s the case. As of 2026, the problem of communities not getting traction is, I think, almost always a lack of content being posted.