Any user over the age of 13 can create their own community and invite others to join it. This can be disabled via parental controls if required. When a community is first created, the creating user becomes an admin for that community. If other admins are created and the original user removes their account, the community will continue to exist.
To create a community, navigate to the communities page on the app (middle icon on the toolbar) or in the web interface (‘My communities’ in the left hand menu) and select the ‘+’ or ‘Add community’ icon.
When the community is first created, a template must be selected which determines parameters such as role names, safeguarding rules etc, some of which can be reconfigured later. Once created, the community cannot have its template changed.