If you delete a community, can a community with the same name be recreated again? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by trymeout@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

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Lets say I made a community with the name !home@lemmy.world. If I delete this community, could anyone else later on in the future recreate the community using the !home@lemmy.world name on lemmy.world. Or is it once a community name that is taken, even if it is deleted will not longer be available?

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[-] ateles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Great question, I’m also interested in the answer to this. Otherwise, what stops a malicious actor from creating and deleting a bunch so they can never be used?

[-] puddlexplorer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wild guess: the admin can restore the community and assign mods.

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