I have a... less than wholesome feeling about this!
Dear lord, you're the best!
Oh, oh, oh...
I'm in tears right now
I did try logging in that way and then clicked around the stuff you mentioned, damn.
Still nothing.
EDIT: Let me take a nap right now, and hopefully this will all be a ridiculous dream a little later..
Thanks, tried it just now. Got this:
Yes, "DELETED BY CREATOR" was the very first thing I noticed! 😠
But yes, I looked around the upper-right, but didn't see much of anything like a "Restore" link. Now I did try pressing the "Joined" button, and now it looks like this:
Ugh, so now I've made the whole situation somehow worse?
Oh, but check this out-- I have a "homepage" community under my same ID ( https://lemm.ee/u/JohnnyEnzyme) and I notice that the EDIT button:
...sits weirdly right next to the trash-can icon:
So... I guess probably I touched the one whereas I meant the other??
Thing is-- such a thing was almost *inevitable* as someone who tried to keep updating our site documents (resources and FAQ).
Exactly, thanks.
All of our individual post URL's seem to still be there, but the front-page seems to be weirdly in a "deleted" status.
Tolkien’s short stories
I remember a lot of them being in poem form, something I had to be in the right frame of mind to get in to. But I liked getting more backstory on Bombadil in particular.
Indeed, I kind of get a kick out of Tolkien fans arguing to this day what kind of being Bombadil was.
There's absolute mass quantities, as Beldar the Conehead might say.
It's easy enough to guess that plenty of people just grabbed a community name in case they might find it useful one day, but I'm guessing plenty of others legitimately started up a community, put some effort in to it, then ultimately got discouraged and abandoned it. A big part of that likely due to not being able to attract many subscribers and contributors.
Personally what I've found is that if you really want a community to grow, you need to seed it with content on a regular basis; preferably daily. Posting bots are probably a good way to help with that, altho if the sub looks like it's little more than bot posts, I don't think users will be inclined to post or comment much.
What I haven't quite figured out myself is how to incline users to post on their own, but hopefully with time that issue will kind of resolve itself due to sheer user count.
Btw, see here:
https://lemm.ee/c/fedigrow
I remember this craziness.
I remember that craziness because as a young adult, I was working nearby and saw the smoke clouds.
...and of course, it was all considered ok.
I'm unaware of anyone at all those days who considered it 'all okay.' On the contrary, it put a kind of national spotlight on Philly police' brutality going back to the Rizzo days, and doubtless contributed to Rizzo never being mayor again. And I think even amongst the folks who believed the bombing was justified, a large segment had to admit that it obviously went very, very wrong.
All that said-- yeah, as a nation I'm not sure we learned a damn thing out of all that. The police certainly didn't appear to.
It's fertiliser, enriching the earth! ^^