I agree. They publicly declared their intent to abandon the community. Which it seems they have already done. There is no purpose in keeping them around as moderators if they no longer have any intent in moderating. The only logical conclusion is to find new mods.
Hate is a strong word, but I don't like the power that comes with an extremely centralized internet. I also don't like the ad driven internet. So Reddit as a website is no good in my opinion.
Just making a community and doing nothing is malicious in my opinion. If you had no intention of engaging in the community you made that is malicious intent.
Having a rule against the mass creation of communities with malicious intent is not a big ask in my opinion. Or in the event of an abandoned community. This isn't some kind of quirk of instance policy, but a thing that will happen on all instances and should be dealt with by all instances. Otherwise the instance will be seen as lacking administration.
In most cases they are not going to respond either because they are inactive or they are intentionally squatting the names for whatever reason. They can't respond or they don't want to.
I've been trying to get an active mod to take over on the lemmy.world battlestations community, but despite my efforts posting in the lemmy.world support community which the admins have suggested doing for this exact issue there has been no change.
https://lemmy.world/u/mandlar
In general I find it pointless for there to exist a million empty communities even when the creators have good intentions. Most of them are sub communities of a broader category which only serves to unnecessarily split a community while there is barely traffic in the broader topic. You shouldn't make a more specific topiced community unless the subject you want to discuss is getting burried in overwhelming traffic of the broader community.
It's not like there is absolutely no solution. There are a lot of tools for finding Lemmy communities right now. You could go to one of these tools and search for Ukraine and get a list of communities.
Subscribing to all of them is effectively making a conglomerate of their content in your home feed. I don't see anything wrong with this approach. Other than that things will naturally work themselves out over time as people tend towards a single community.
The plot of the Blame! movie is almost non-existence in the manga. Some elements of it are in there for sure, but I would not consider it even attempting to adapt the manga. But at the same time it doesn't really matter due to the nature of the manga. Which is basically Killy going on an adventure over an indeterminate extremely long period of time across an indeterminate seemingly infinite distance. Since his adventure is basically endless the events of the movie could conceivably happen at any point in the manga.
So the only problem with the movie is that it ends. Which means you don't really understand how endless his journey is.
I've also just never seen Macross. The art always looked beautiful, but I've never picked it up because I didn't understand the concept of the singing in a sci fi setting. I'm sure I would enjoy it whatever is going on, but I've had endless other things to watch and read.
2 billion seems kind of high. That is like a fifth of the planets population as active users. I don't think they even have 2 billion registered accounts including duplicates.
I've only read the first book and didn't like it very much. How different are the other 5 Dune books? Are they still primarily focused on the characters? I'd really like them to talk a bit more about the technology of the world and why things are the way they are.
Trains and short range motor bikes or human powered bikes can definitely replace cars. The problem is the city needs to be designed for it. It can't replace it in most places in the US because all infrastructure has been biased towards cars for more than 100 years. But if you imagine a city built from the ground up with trains and bikes in mind it is completely doable.
It's going to take another century to undo the car centric society we have built in the US.
I've read Artemis so perhaps I'll give this a look. I actually didn't like Artemis very much mainly because the main characters angsty attitude got a bit annoying. The world building and tech was interesting though so if there was another story in the same setting I'm sure I could find it enjoyable.
I agree. They publicly declared their intent to abandon the community. Which it seems they have already done. There is no purpose in keeping them around as moderators if they no longer have any intent in moderating. The only logical conclusion is to find new mods.