and just start squatting (so to speak) on the mod rights to communities
That already happens "manually". Two of the communities I mod were originally created by community name squatters who grabbed a bunch of "popular" names and then basically abandoned the site the same day. One of those two users had created 25+ communities just to sit on the names. And one of the "partner communities" on a different instance was created by someone who put zero effort into creating content - they only opened a magazine and expected others to do all the work, then eventually abandoned it when they lost interest (hasn't been online in 2 months). Luckily that magazine was recently adopted by someone who seems a lot more invested and active, but that doesn't change the fact that the magazine had been "dead" for months prior to the new owner taking over.
Granted, an automated system would make it easier for squatters to just kinda program a queue of communities they want to grab, but the problem itself already exists even without an automated system.
You have to request them on !support@lemmy.world ... and sadly it is not yet well-known. Automating the procedure (like making a community freely availiable after 6 months or so) would make adopting them a whole lot easier, but the additional hurdle of having to ask a supporter first means that they can decide on a case-by-case basis which lowers the risk of trolls taking over communities just to mess with them.
In recognition of this festive season, we caught up with the real-life Santa Claus. That’s right: Old Man Christmas is a real guy who legally changed his name to Santa Claus. Santa, it turns out, lives on Long Island, owns a barbecue company called Santa’s BBQ and has been Santa for more than 20 years.
One can request abandoned communities at !support@lemmy.world. The mods can either transfer ownership to someone else directly (which keeps all the content intact) or nuke the community so the interested user can start from scratch.
Not many people seem to be aware about this tho, or maybe don't want to ask openly, or feel bad taking over what someone else had started.
So, as for your actual question, I think culling completely inactive, empty communities after a while would be the best option, so the names are freed up again for people who are actually interested in moderating. If the community already has content but no (active) mods, then "adopting" it is the better option, but there should be an additional way to communicate all of that clearer to the userbase. Maybe something like the current "community spotlight" but advertising abandoned communities that are up for adoption ...?
... except, conveniently, for the Guardian parts used in the Skyview Towers (the "arms" that grab Link, the control units, etc.), or the dead Guardian atop the Hateno Tech Lab, or the Guardian "daggers" that were formerly turned into Ancient Arrows (which Link can DIY now), or the Purah Pad which is basically a rebranded Sheikah Slate, or the telescope atop Purah's little lab at Lookout Landing ...
Oh and of course the after-credits scene in BotW, where Zelda states that she wants to go investigate Vah Ruta to find out why the Divine Beast stopped working and check whether it can be repaired. The "Calamity" was dead by then as the scene takes place days or even weeks after the final battle, but I guess noone had told the Divine Beasts yet that they were meant to inexplicably go poof along with the main antagonist.
IMHO it would have made a lot more sense to say that the people of Hyrule actively dismantled and destroyed most Sheikah Tech they could find so it would be impossible for Ganon to possess them again. That would explain why there is still some of it left in remote corners of the Kingdom, and it is a more down-to-earth explanation than "it just vanished".
All in all, it really DOES sound like a lazy "I don't care" explanation.
The heart doesn't care where the adrenaline comes from - the strain on the organ will be the same either way. Anything that makes your pulse and/or blood pressure go up can pose a risk, independendly from whether or not it is "just a game".
..but like others have said already: better ask an actual doctor for advice on how to handle the situation. Maybe "small doeses" will be okay, or you can get a way to monitor your vitals and take a break before you get too worked up, but an actual medical professional should decide that in the end.
The entirety of Australia, because Flat Earthers often deny that this continent even exists and claim that it's the "counterweight" of the plate or some sh*t like that, and everyone living there is a paid actor employed by NASA to cover up The Truth™
No idea what Flat Earthers living IN Australia think of this tho...
I was going to comment pretty much the same. I haven't watched TV in over a decade and the only times my old TV gets turned on is when I want to play a game on the "big screen" instead of a handheld device. If I do want to just watch something without interacting, I watch a DVD or video on youtube, but on my laptop.
They "crushed the protest" in the same way the captain of the Titanic solved the iceberg issue. Silencing the people who point out the ship is going to crash and trying to ignore the passengers leaving in droves is not going to make the iceberg disappear, but it keeps the people at the buffet entertained and clueless up until everything goes down.
"Back in the day" I used to go to medieval fairs with friends quite often, and all of us were in full costume, from head to toe. It is a lot easier to change into those clothes at home rather than put them on when you arrive at your destination, so we already looked like a LotR troupe when we left home.
One time on of our knights wanted to quickly get some more cash before we drove off, so he marched into the bank - in full metal plate, only missing the helmet and weapons 'cause they were in the trunk at the time. It took a while before he came back, laughing his ass off because he had to reassure the lone bank teller in there that he was NOT a lunatic trying to rob him.
The bank got its first ATM a couple weeks later, which might or might not have been a coincidence.
Kbin and Lemmy.ml mostly. The majority of communities I follow and/or interact with are on Lemmy.World, but this is due to the fact that I have a bunch of rather niche interests and other instances lack content about those.
For example, there seem to be only 2 communities about The Owl House: !theowlhouse@lemmy.world (which is pretty active) and !theowlhouse@toons.zone which has a single post that is 6 months old and doesn't even credit the artist, plus an inactive mod. It's a no-brainer which one I want to follow.
I guess this "lack of content" will change over time, but as of now, the Fediverse still needs to grow a lot to make smaller communities worthwile.
That already happens "manually". Two of the communities I mod were originally created by community name squatters who grabbed a bunch of "popular" names and then basically abandoned the site the same day. One of those two users had created 25+ communities just to sit on the names. And one of the "partner communities" on a different instance was created by someone who put zero effort into creating content - they only opened a magazine and expected others to do all the work, then eventually abandoned it when they lost interest (hasn't been online in 2 months). Luckily that magazine was recently adopted by someone who seems a lot more invested and active, but that doesn't change the fact that the magazine had been "dead" for months prior to the new owner taking over.
Granted, an automated system would make it easier for squatters to just kinda program a queue of communities they want to grab, but the problem itself already exists even without an automated system.