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At Lemmygrad, we love doing purges. stalin heart
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This post regarding “controlling the creation of minuscule communities and cleaning up abandoned ones” garnered a lot of agreement so it’s time we began cleaning up dead communities. The communities page should be more useful after this.

What we would like to do is clean up such communities in phases, loosening the criteria as we proceed with each phase. We will run each phase through the community to gather feedback before pulling the trigger.

In doing so, we hope to experiment and determine what a good criteria is for finding community candidates for removal. Once we have settled on a reasonable criteria, we can do this periodically. Maybe every six months. We can thus allow community creation freely when clean up at intervals to control the mess.

This is the first phase of this process.

Phase 1

For this, we want to catch the communities that have been dead since arrival. The exact criteria is:

  • Communities that are at least one month old
  • Communities that have not seen any post or comment for their entire existence

This criteria is pretty strict in the sense that it will only catch communities that we won’t mind being gone (I think).

There are 36 communities that match this criteria. They are listed in tabular format at the end of the post hidden under the spoiler tag. The removal process is going to proceed as follows:

  • Communities created in 2023 and earlier will be removed after two days at 2024-05-26 06:30:00 UTC.
  • Communities created in 2024 will be removed after a week at 2024-05-31 06:30:00 UTC.
  • If you would like any of the listed communities to not be deleted for some reason, you can comment here or message the admins. Maybe you want to adopt the community or whatever.

Communities Selected for Removal

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Name Title Created on Moderators
adelaide Adelaide 2022-03-26 00:58:41 UTC @Nique@lemmygrad.ml
agitprop Agitative Propaganda 2020-08-01 16:01:05 UTC @Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml
antiimperialism Anti-Imperialist Action 2024-03-27 18:31:30 UTC @Nestori@lemmygrad.ml
ask_socialists Ask Socialists 2023-06-16 19:05:51 UTC @ilir@lemmygrad.ml
australiansocialism Australian Socialism 2022-03-25 23:47:20 UTC @Nique@lemmygrad.ml
badempanada BadEmpanada 2023-06-01 19:18:02 UTC @GenZhukov@lemmygrad.ml
blackwolffeed Backup for /r/BlackWolfFeed 2020-07-11 22:44:59 UTC @Mary_Malloc@lemmygrad.ml
brisbane Brisbane 2022-03-26 00:44:56 UTC @Nique@lemmygrad.ml
cpa Communist Party of Australia 2022-03-26 01:48:09 UTC @CPbAsed@lemmygrad.ml
darwin Darwin 2022-03-26 01:12:42 UTC @Nique@lemmygrad.ml
fanfiction Fanfiction 2023-06-13 19:49:55 UTC @100beep@lemmygrad.ml
firepro The community of the Fire Pro Wrestling series of games 2020-07-21 15:11:25 UTC @Josh_Drake@lemmygrad.ml
genzedongea r/GenZedong Educational Archive 2022-04-04 20:31:28 UTC @kretenkobr2@lemmygrad.ml
greenandextreme GreenandExtreme 2022-04-04 18:22:30 UTC @B0rodin@lemmygrad.ml
hassanabi Hassan Piker 2023-07-03 23:20:14 UTC @scunner@lemmygrad.ml
hobart Hobart 2022-03-26 01:13:36 UTC @Nique@lemmygrad.ml
italiarossa Comunità italiana marxista- Italian marxist community 2022-03-24 13:39:21 UTC @anticringe@lemmygrad.ml
jucheprimalism ooga booga 2021-11-25 04:08:40 UTC @Hixen69@lemmygrad.ml
langex Language exchange 2022-01-16 07:14:01 UTC @felipeforte@lemmygrad.ml
leftwithoutedge leftwithoutedge 2020-07-11 08:25:34 UTC @Pheadrus@lemmygrad.ml
marxistculture MarxistCulture 2023-12-27 14:28:33 UTC @EdMarCarSe@lemmygrad.ml
panches CA “Panches” 2021-05-22 23:06:38 UTC @panches@lemmygrad.ml
perth Perth 2022-03-26 00:45:10 UTC @Nique@lemmygrad.ml
plants Plants, flowers and nature 2024-04-16 17:26:31 UTC @Markka@lemmygrad.ml
puroresu Here is a space to discuss Puroresu from a leftist perspective. 2020-07-19 21:43:58 UTC @Josh_Drake@lemmygrad.ml
raddemsoc Radical DemSocs 2021-01-29 17:33:51 UTC @a_very_rad_demsoc@lemmygrad.ml
revolt Revolt Chat 2023-07-03 05:58:22 UTC @SageSaul@lemmygrad.ml
southeastasia Southeast Asia 2023-03-27 09:12:18 UTC @Neptium@lemmygrad.ml
space_news Space News 2023-08-20 19:26:53 UTC @Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml
sydney Sydney 2022-03-25 23:48:25 UTC @Nique@lemmygrad.ml
theleftcoalition The Left Coalition 2022-06-17 04:42:09 UTC @itselectricboi@lemmygrad.ml
thirst_posting Thirst Posting 2021-01-05 03:25:55 UTC @vera@lemmygrad.ml
tip Türkiye İşçi Partisi - Workers’ Party of Turkey 2023-06-02 03:34:43 UTC @ottomanbeethoven@lemmygrad.ml
wargamereddragon Wargame: Red Dragon 2023-01-08 20:38:46 UTC @Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml
    • Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      Ditto. /c/hail_corporate is deleted now. I squatted /c/socialistra during the reddit migration wave – the original subreddit was never officially a project of the Socialist Rifle Association and had been the source of some grief for the org (and I didn’t want to see the same thing happen on Lemmy) – but I’ll leave it to admins to decide its fate.