I feel like that would be better than total subscriber count.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
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    4 years ago

    The absent accounts don’t bother me too much (you won’t ever see them), but absent communities do. We have a TON of cases of community squatting: people making then immediately abandoning communities. I have a query to find recent activity in a community (posts or comments), but we need to come up with a time frame (no activity in 3 months? 6 months? a year?) for that too.

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      4 years ago

      I think there’s a clear distinction between an active community that at some point becomes inactive, and an empty community that has never been active. So different thresholds should be applied in these cases.

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      4 years ago

      Yes true, but the OP problems comes from the fact that subscriber numbers are inflated with abandoned accounts I would guess.