Someone created the ChronicPain community and then abandoned it. I have messaged this person with no response. They haven’t posted, commented, or anything since they made it.

It’s probably a widespread issue but ChronicPain is a support group for those who suffer from it. Is the only real option to create a second one or is someone abandons a community they create can they be removed?

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    Admins can purge communities, freeing up the name for other uses.

    However, I’m really not sure how that works with federation.

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      It works on the individual instance, which for all intents and purposes means it works for everyone since everyone can see the instance.

      You just have to make sure you’re pinging the right admin for your instance. In this case it’s ruud I believe for lemmy.world

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      1 year ago

      This is my understanding - federated sites push out their content, so just like a new post will propagate into any place it is subscribed, a deleted community/magazine will also propagate (and I suppose remove the subscriptions? Just as housekeeping). I know I’ve seen that is how removal of prohibited topics would work, so it should be the same.