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What to do about ghost magazines that have no content? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by DarkGamer@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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It seems like when the big reddit migration happened, a lot of new users claimed magazine names on kbin instances that were popular on reddit in order to have ownership of them, but they seemingly have no interest in posting content to them. This has unfortunately caused lot of otherwise useful magazines to remain dormant, vacant, and unused.

Would it make sense to have these ghost magazines expire or have a system for changing ownership of them if no one uses them? It's a shame if the good names are taken and immediately abandoned, and it's not a great user experience to look for communities only to find so many empty and abandoned magazines.

I'm curious what opinions are regarding this matter. Thanks.

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[–] qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spin up your own instance? Or make a new magazine on somebody else’s? Admittedly I’m a lemming so I’m not too familiar with kbins structure. But this is exactly why federation is a thing, no?

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spin up your own instance? Or make a new magazine on somebody else’s?

I suppose I could, but I don't really want to run my own instance right now. I'd rather add value and content to the main kbin instance in order help it get off the ground and keep growing, so I moderate a couple of magazines there. I imagine if I did spin up my own instance ghost magazines would be an issue there as well and would require manual culling.

Admittedly I’m a lemming so I’m not too familiar with kbins structure.

I believe magazines are equivalent to communites on lemmy, except they can have a list of associated hashtags in order to automatically include posts from mastodon-style microblog content as well.