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Proposal: to add a new column in list of communities that displays "last active/last post" to indicate dead communities. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Last activity is a much worse indicator of liveliness. It'd be trivial for single people to necrobump dead communities with no users to make them seem lively by having recent activity.

instead of showing a liveliness of a community it just shows share of content creators, ignoring passive consumers.

Its not just posts, but comments too. Passive viewers don't make a community feel alive, only people who make some contribution do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

I see your point.

But in my perception "user/month" still may look like only 77 users from 833 subscribers visited community at least once per month. And such metric may make a feeling for users, that our already not that a huge instance consists of ghosts - inactive users and is even smaller than it is in reality. Reddit is huge, but I have never seen that they demonstrate amount of "active users among subscribers".

To check my point, you can simply ask someone outside a dev team and active contributers: "What does user per month in communities list mean?". Of course it is just a friendly suggestion.