Want to get yall’s feedback on community squatting.
There are a good amount of communities with zero posts, comments, etc, as well as some users who have created communities but aren’t trying to grow them or even post to them in any way.
I’d rather have the creators of communities be someone who’s at least contributing to them.
Some options are, occasionally deleting communities with little to no activity, or limiting modship to a small number of communities.
I have one I made a year ago that I would gladly hand over if I knew the password. Perhaps I may suggest a use it or lose it policy. If you don’t log in for a year (more than enough time), your account is forfeit.
As a moderator I’ve noticed many teams attempt to jury rig ways to purge active users on their respective platforms. Many big titans who have operated for years with millions of users occasionally do inactive user purges to free up old usernames.
Edit: I think a reasonable option would be messaging and removing the moderation team if no manual moderator actions take place within a medium timeframe. Three months sounds good to take into account the more sporadic communities.
I agree. I’ve just set up https://lemmy.ml/c/community_requests as a place to revive / transfer abandoned communities.