Mod is active on lemmy, however community has been inactive for quite some time. I did post on there a while back, but all content in the community seems to have been deleted since. Last October I sent DMs to the current owner requesting mod/transfer of leadership, however never heard back. I am the founder/mod of c/thrashmetal. Thanks.
Requesting c/heavymetal
Submitted 16 hours ago by serpineslair@lemmy.world to support@lemmy.world
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Wasn’t that the one that got shuttered in favor of !metal@lemmy.world ?
I might be misremembering that, but c/metal is the one most people use currently. It’s not exactly a high volume of posts, but it’s steady
serpineslair@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Idk anything about that. I understand most people post to !metal@lemmy.world, but it would be nice to have a platform specifically for heavy metal/nwobhm, rather than random non-specific tracks. I’m personally less knowledgeable about heavy metal than, say, thrash or death, but I too would be interested in what people could contribute, looking to learn more about it. I have enough to contribute initially to hopefully get it off the ground. I just wanna try to revive it and see where it goes. If people don’t play ball in at least a few months, then what will be will be.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Hey, if you wanna try, go for it.
I’d say you’d serve the lemmyverse better by starting one fresh on a different instance, since there’s already issues with .world having laggy federation.
As a user, and a metal head, drawing a distinction been between “metal” and “heavy metal” is, well, a circle jerk. Now, a fresh nwobhm specific one, that makes sense; as lemmy does seem to keep growing slowly, so there’s eventually going to be enough users that genre specific communities is useful.
I hate throwing circle jerk in there like that, but I can’t think of a less aggressive term that still expresses the lack of any real difference outside of very narrow usage that even fairly dedicated genre heads don’t always use.