The hard part is that there is no good way to confirm whether an account or a community is truly abandoned. Some users prefer to lurk. Some users don’t reply to Lemmy private messages. Some users keep an alt account for moderating and use another account as their daily driver, so the mod account looks inactive even though there’s an active user behind it. Some users are sitting on an empty community with aspirations of growing it in the future when they get some time. 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.
luthis@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
No. Why? Is it taking up your hard drive space?
Better to have the communities there, so there is a place for people
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I mean if the mods haven’t been active….
It would be nice to have active communities.
Patnou@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.