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.
The mod voting thing we’ll postpone for a longer discussion, because there isn’t too clear a way to do that without it leaving subs open to hijacking (we have a github issue for it somewhere).
But ya community squatting is something all instance runners will have to deal with. I do like the lemmyrequest idea /u/AgreeableLandscape mentioned where idle / modless communities could be requested by whoever, then that gives a chance to ping the mods there and see if they’re inactive.