You'd think niche communities... niche servers... what a match, right? My communities were deleted or removed from all three Lemmy servers, even after being approved.
This was confusing to me. I've literally never heard of this happening. New communities are formed every day. Surely there much be some way to explain the unknown-to-me world this man experienced, where the admins started up their server just rubbing their hands together waiting for someone to try to start a community so they can DELETE IT! And then run off into the night, howling with laughter.
We were migrating two weeks worth of content (25-30 posts) just like we said we would do in our application. They suggested a third server (can't find the name/application now) which we applied to, got approved on, and let us post for two days before deleting us.
A haaaaa. The critical issue.
I've formed a few different communities on Lemmy. Only one was going to post-spam like this, and I talked with people on the server to make sure it wouldn't be an issue, and when it was, I found another place for my thing and moved it there instead. Everyone's happy. No one had to delete anything, and no one took any kind of attitude like their response was "unwelcoming." We just worked it out. Honestly all this would have taken would have been just not migrating the previous posts over, and creating a fresh community instead. Boom. Everyone's happy.
This attitude "YO YOU BETTER FIGURE IT OUT FOR ME OTHERWISE I WON'T BLESS YOUR NETWORK WITH MY PRESENCE." Dude Lemmy admins are not your parents. It's a culture of people who work together. Just talk to them, work something out, don't come in with what you want to do as your list of demands, and then if it doesn't make sense storm off in a huff demanding better service in the future.