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I don’t know how we fix the absentee mod problem either. Sure you can create the community on a C new instance, but then it’s even less likely to be successful. I Lemmy is on and I’ll never go back to Reddit, but I don’t see anything replacing it 1:1 the way Lemmy is trying to. It took Reddit a decade to mature in regards to niche communities. Lemmy has a ton of barriers already such as the roadblocks put up by absentee mods and the difficulty in finding communities at all. Lemmy’s All feed seems to bury new communities even worse than Reddit does, but that’s just an unscientific impression.
One suggestion I saw was auto-deleting communities that are still empty after a week, incentivizing new mods to upload something, not just squat names that were popular subs in hopes of I guess having some sort of power if they pick up?
I'm not saying there are no good reasons to make a community without posting, but when that's all a user has ever done, and they've done it dozens of times, I have a hard time assuming they're just trying to help the fediverse thrive.
Presumably worth reaching out to the instance admin if a mod is squatting on a community name on that instance.
Might even be worth just messaging that mod too - they might have taken a 'build it and they will come' stance and would welcome another hand to mod and post.
question: can instance admins remove/change mods of a community?