The hard part is that there is no good way to confirm whether an account or a community is truly abandoned. Any criteria for determining what gets removed is going to have a significant false-positive rate and piss off a lot of people.
I’m not sure there’s much to gain from a mass removal, anyway. Lemmy.world has several thousand communities, most of which are pretty quiet, but the mere existence of those communities isn’t causing any issues as far as I know.
Ok what if I went thru 50 to 100 communities a day and tell you which ones were not active? Or is abandoned?
No. Why? Is it taking up your hard drive space?
Better to have the communities there, so there is a place for people
I mean if the mods haven’t been active….
It would be nice to have active communities.
I get that, find a niche for people. But how about we get more partner communities like ask, askscience, askhistorians and stuff. I was just thinking about the dead weight and get more communities more active and such. Case in point we at !askhistorians@lemmy.world have been searching for people to do an AMA. And publicize it on both active communities. I took over askhistorians after a knowledge bombardment, but just like the mod then karmabot needed to go because he or she only had posts or comments years old. How about an admin come along see if the mods are still active and give them a month or something. Cause it will further push people to open up more active communities? Because with great power, come great responsibility. People get on to me for asking stupid question or flood communities with informative stuff just to get communities going and get more engagement and discourse.
