You can assign others as mod or ask someone else to make the community. But when you make a community, Lemmy automatically makes you the moderator of the community. It is not weird to ask others to help modding a community after you set it up initially, not everyone has the time to moderate.

yo, i'm 100% behind sh.itjust.works and the wider fediverse, i'm eager to post, mod, upvote, and comment. just gimme a community to mod. i created a few but ain't nobody posting

I've recreated around 30 subreddits into communities with different icons and banners on my instance. Most of those communities remain empty, but I welcome anyone wanting to post content. You can check out some of the communities I created here. I don't know if some topics are of your interest.

To respect the rules of the lemmy.world instance and community, I want to disclose that my server is nowhere near as powerful as the specifications of the lemmy.world server indicated in this post. Nevertheless, I started my own instance because I wanted to do my part and support the decentralized nature of federated social networks. I also believe we do not truly know what will happen after July 1, and whether or not the more populated lemmy instances such as this one will get overloaded.

I feel like it's a bit weird to defederate a whole instance, wish we just had the option as a user to block instances ourselves, makes it a bit more "open" like that

Which are you after ? Similar May exist.