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• fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That might be an option. I personally would be fine with that but I’ve noticed that many / most users get very upset about the notion that posts / communities / users are impermanent ?

  Another solution is to simply promote these dead communities - if anyone is interested in warming them up then they should do so. If they’re consistent then after a few months ask existing mods to add them as mods, or ask admins to do so if the mods are not responsive.

  This approach runs the risk that the person doing the work may not become a mod, but honestly I don’t think being a mod should be the objective of creating a community.

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I just thought about my suggestion more and one thing I think that has given reddit so much staying power is the fact content sticks around so long, I’d imagine many of us here would specifically search in reddit for reviews or help with something and found a like 3 year old thread with the answer.

    So… Pruning is probably a bad idea lol.

    Unfortunately threadiverse searchability is pretty bad, assumedly because of the nature of the fediverse with content being copied across instances essentially I am sure its a little more difficult for an indexer to properly handle it, not to mention somehow deciding which instance to specifically link to for a certain thread. On top of that, it wouldn’t surprise me if all the corpo search engines would deprioritize most fediverse sites out of self preservation 🤷

    On the “warming them up” that makes sense in theory, but usually if I’m making a rare post it’s to engage with a group of people, if I don’t see the engagement I’m probably not going to go there again to post whatever it is because what’s the point if no one sees it anyway?

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    • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean “warming up” a community intentionally.

      For example, one of the subs I regularly read on reddit is /r/audiobooks, looking for recommendations et cetera. The audiobook communities here are dead.

      If I want to adopt one of those dead communities here, I could just decide to make several posts a week for a few months. Thereafter, if I’m still keen, and still haven’t had any interaction from the existing mods, I could approach the admin of that instance and make my case for being appointed as a mod.

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• Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe we should put a pinned post at the top of each dead community that just says “go here instead”

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• moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pruning is a bad idea imo. Old communities here (like on reddit) can be great resources for solutions to technical problems, for example. And weird one-off communities that have like 2 memes from a decade ago can be really funny when you get linked to them.

  Perhaps a notification-type nag, a tab of “communities you used to use but haven’t posted to for a while” but with a snappier title, alongside “local” and “all”.

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  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    and now PieFed supports moving posts! piefed.social/…/piefed-1-5-is-released-move-posts…

    So Piefed admins/mods could consolidate communities by moving the posts before deleting the community

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    • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      oh that’s a great feature

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just to give you an example, I help mod a community called !askusa@discuss.online where we wanted to open up a space to discuss topics of interest to people in the USA, yet remain a safe space away from politics.

    What then is there for us to talk about, these days, that does not involve politics?!?!? (this btw was the topic of my 2nd-to-last post, six months ago now)

    I do not need a nagging reminder to help me realize what is happening here… :-(

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