there are 3-4 Animal Crossing communities, but none are active. One is posted to by a bot. There is basically no Animal Crossing community on Lemmy, even though spaces exist. Same for my favourite band, favourite singer, favourite film — all of which had active communities on Reddit.

Admins need to do routine pruning…

A shit ton of people jumped over from reddit and instantly created a bunch of communities just so they’d be “top mod” but there was either no demand or no supply. So accounts that mod 20-30 communities went inactive years ago at this point.

I picked up a /fantheories community no one had ever really posted to, just because I didn’t want to post somewhere that didn’t have an active mod.

But I guess any type of community on reddit that isn’t on lemmy is gonna get created anyways.

But if you see dead communities about something you’re interested in, admins are usually pretty thankful if someone offers to take it.