this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
11 points (72.0% liked)
Asklemmy
43970 readers
818 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I imagine it was disabled during the influx to prevent a "land rush"
I feel like it is more load balancing issues. This is one of the more popular instances, so the admins probably don't want to bear the costs of housing too many communities.
This is also likely a factor. Probably the biggest now that you bring it up
what's a land rush?
A bunch of people rushing in to make and squat on communities. The Lemmy devs also wanted people to find instances that better match the community, so I imagine it will be permanent.