I actually think its a major problem. I joined lemmy.ml because I could create a community. Now suddenly that has been pulled from under my feet. Essentially unless I run my own instance, I am at the whim of whatever someone want to change at any time.

Same problem :(

Ok interesting. Its lemmy.ml.

There is no create community icon. If I go directly to the create community page which I found by googling for it, it says “only admins can create communities”.