Easy if you just want a community; I did it for !eldenring@lemmy.world by just messaging the admins because the og mod just parked it and fucked off.
For the whole instance you’d have to snipe the domain name or make some kind of deal with the current owner(s). From what I have heard, the software itself is tied to a domain name, so even migrating to a new domain is kinda fucky. Let alone taking over an instance that exists but is abandoned.
Depends on the instance.
Easy if you just want a community; I did it for !eldenring@lemmy.world by just messaging the admins because the og mod just parked it and fucked off.
For the whole instance you’d have to snipe the domain name or make some kind of deal with the current owner(s). From what I have heard, the software itself is tied to a domain name, so even migrating to a new domain is kinda fucky. Let alone taking over an instance that exists but is abandoned.