Someone suggested that I request the community through [email protected] which, by looking at the previous posts and/or comments, seems to be working fine for people.
I will have to try and get the community back from the dead.
The point of federation though, is to spread things out so that no one instance has total control and all the burden of all the communities. Lemmy.ml is already feeling the load from an admin and hardware perspective. Creating a new community on a different instance lightens the work for the lemmy.ml staff and brings more attention to another instance. This strengthens the entire fediverse. You do you if you are dead set on having it on lemmy.ml.
I wish you the best, in both personal and lemmy life.