A 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.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Tbh, and I plan 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 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Tbh, and I plan 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.

Cool, it's a good idea. But there are also other instances.

Then there is the issue of communities with a large number of subs 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 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I know. That's why I think other instances should also do it lol

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

And that's exactly what the blogpost is trying to solve.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 3 days 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