And that’s exactly what the blogpost is trying to solve.
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Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoA lot of the “less active ones” are completely dead. Many mid-tier topics (not niche, but not “meme shitpost”) have a sea of dead communities and 1-2 active ones and it’s difficult to find them without actually clicking through the full list of results.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 weeks ago
I think this could also be improved with a better search page, which shows how active the communities are in the search results so you don’t have to click through them all, I think v1.0 is getting that
Skavau@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Tbh, and I llan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.
If a community was active and then isn’t, that’s fine, but a lot of communities are made and then never used.
Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Cool, but there are other instances.
Then there is the issue of communities with a decent number of subs (much more than active communities) but where the last post was 7 months ago and they have 0 MAUs. While a community with a lot less subs can have several posts per week and at least some MAUs (couple of hundred).
Skavau@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I know. That’s why I think other instances should also do it lol