Lemmy has many nearly abandoned instances. Over the entire period of its existence - several posts. Shouldn’t the instance owner post content to attract users?

  • Rikudou_SageAEnglish
    24•1 year ago

    Are you thinking about a community? Because instance doesn’t really need posts, it can be purely a user instance with no communities. If you mean a community, then yeah, it happens for various reasons:

    • people think they can attract people to it, turns out they can’t
    • people sit on good community names to be part of the mod team in case someone wants to pick it up
    • personal problems causing people to have less time to moderate
    • possibly many more reasons