he never censors freedom of expression,

I know you’re trolling, but I’m going to respond because this is dangerous misinformation. The Trump administration is making a point of suppressing free speech and free expression. They openly brag about revoking legal residency status and deporting people who dare to state political opinions that the administration doesn’t like.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75720q9d7lo

I removed the community. With no mod and no content there is no reason to keep it.

I wouldn’t expect jets from other countries to be any different. Aircraft in general get a lot of inspection and maintenance. Military jets planes push the limits of what their materials and systems can handle, and it takes a toll.

Idk how credible the site below is, but they claim the F-16 averages 15 hours of inspections ad maintenance for every hour of flight time. Also that military jets are generally only mission-ready about 50%-75% of the time, which means they spend an awful lot of their useful lives in the inspection and maintenance queues:
https://simpleflying.com/military-aircraft-maintenance/

Ok. The community has been locked and I changed the description to note that it is dormant. Rather than pin a post I put a note in the sidebar.

The .world community does appear to have an absentee mod, but I don’t think I would describe either community as particularly active. Both have posts from 2023 on their first page. Maybe just build up the community you like and let the other one be? People should be drawn to the one that shows activity.

Would you consider editing the display name of the community to include ‘[Dormant community]’?

Done.

I locked the community and pinned an explanatory post. Best of luck to the slrpnk community!

As an aside, these situations always make me a little nervous that I’m going to step on a user’s toes. The mod account having no visible post/comment/vote activity does not confirm that they are truly gone from Lemmy. They may have become a lurker.

We’re aware. AFAIK, nobody has expressed interest in taking over that community and bringing it back to life.

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world would you like to volunteer?

It’s in the “Blocked Instances” section, where it should be.

sh.itjust.works explicitly blocks Threads. They held a vote among the local users: https://sh.itjust.works/post/11308397

It is odd that threads.net appears on our instances page, while the same is not true for other Lemmy instances which have not blocked Threads. Lemmy.world is federated with Threads by default simply because it is not on our instance block list. I do not believe our instance has done anything special to force a link with Threads. I mentioned it in our admin chat and will update this post if I learn anything.

However, even with threads.net listed on our instances page, Threads does not seem to work with Lemmy. I am able to search and view Mastodon user profiles from lemmy.world, but it does not work for any of the Threads test profiles.

Edit: The lemmy.world database has no records for a person on threads.net. Our best guess is that a Threads user tried to interact with lemmy.world. Perhaps the process got far enough for our instance to recognize threads.net and add it to our instances list, but not far enough to create a record of the user in our DB.

Spoiler alert: the drain is just a straight pipe to a bucket below the counter.

I empathize with your situation. I’m in the same boat. Even with hundreds of subscribers, if everyone’s lurking then the community gets stale and withers. Becoming a one-person content machine isn’t sustainable.

Though on a brighter note, with this post you just gained a subscriber to your community. Browsing through it reminded me of how fun geocaching was. I just dusted off my old geocaching.com account from a decade ago. I’ll have to take my kids out and see what we can find!