A new user might come along and post something that revives interest in it. What Lemmy needs are more users to increase activity.
New users are unlikely to be interested in immediately committing to maintaining a community with regular posts and moderation over a long period of time, but might be willing to contribute to existing communities. Better to have dormant communities that can be revived than to have a lack of topics for new users to contribute to.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
A new user might come along and post something that revives interest in it. What Lemmy needs are more users to increase activity.
New users are unlikely to be interested in immediately committing to maintaining a community with regular posts and moderation over a long period of time, but might be willing to contribute to existing communities. Better to have dormant communities that can be revived than to have a lack of topics for new users to contribute to.
Blaze@piefed.zip 5 weeks ago
Counterpoint: a new user has a look around, see that a community on a topic hasn’t been active for a month, they think this platform is dead.
While if they found that stale community, but with a pinned post to the active community on the same topic, it helps them to find active places.