Nope, I'm all for closing down redundant inactive communities. It cuts down on confusion. If there are niche groups active then fine. But a lot of communities created after the APIcalypse have withered and died. They should be cleaned up imho.
Thank you for your comment
!europe@feddit.de is active but feddit itself is abandoned unfortunately
this post on !main@feddit.de clarifies the next steps: https://lemmy.world/post/16420574
In summary, people are getting organized to manage the handover from the current admin to the new organization (kind of a similar process to what happened to feddit.uk some time ago)
The recent update tells us no handover was able to happen, feddit.de will shut down and communities are invited to transfer to feddit.org
A community for all things to do with Europe as well as the EU/EEA.