Why can't lemmy mods or admins clean up dead communities like askhistorians and others? I know they have a hard job and everything but we need an active user base to make lemmy to thrive.? (lemmy.world)

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[-] thefactremains@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'll try to use a scenario to better explain the problem, but I'll admit that I don't know the solution.

Scenario: new user searches for a topic because it's important to them. The only exact match community has 17 subscribers vs many thousands on Reddit. User decides Lemmy isn't the Reddit killer (or at least not yet) and goes back to Reddit.

this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024

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