• Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Wait, if a creator deletes their account, then their communities are deleted?

    That’s kind of alarming for communities with absent mods. They could come back at any time just to leave.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Pretty much. There’s currently no mechanism to stop the creator of a community from deleting it and no way to get it or the posts back.

      It has come up on GitHub where concern was raised.

      • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        aaah! hm… do you happen to know if it’s possible for the server admin to change the owner of a community?

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yes they can, I’ve done it a few times. It’s also possible for the creator of a community to transfer it to another Mod and leave the community (I’ve done it that way a couple of times too).