Largely the same as if they just disappeared and stopped logging in. The community would become abandoned and unmoderated.
Reddit had a system where you could request banned or inactive communities, Lemmy instances don’t usually have this, instead requiring you message that instance’s admins directly.
I did this once. The community stays without any moderator. Instance admin can assign moderators if needed.
Bertrand, is that you?
No, this is Patrick
Or a whole server just vsnishes like kbin.social. Account, crested magazines, participation in the fediverse…poofed out of existence in an “instance”.
Had an account there, and liked it. I understand why the creator/maintainer stopped, but I would’ve liked a bit of a warning instead of just… poof. I don’t even know if I could backup and reuse my account and activity, but it sucks nonetheless.
I used to be a kbin user, then I stopped cause it didn’t feel nice on mobile. I come back a few weeks ago to find it that it no longer works. Shit sucks
kbin.melroy.org is a good replacement
Same happened with kbin.run. Glad I set up an account on another instance before that happened.
I think, in an instant.
I believe it was intended as a pun
They generally go unmoderated until someone steps in to take over, or if the community gets abused it will be locked until someone steps in.
