Title is a bit of a loaded question but I tried to fit it into one sentence.
Do you think Lemmy’s search and use functions are hurt by all the communities that were made and abandoned during the 2023 Redditfugee influx? As in, do you think that Lemmy would be better off if some of these communities were consolidated into larger general pages until it gets a big enough user base to warrant individual communities for specific TV shows, for example.
I think being able to start your own community so easily is a great feature of Lemmy, and I also think that abandoned communities regardless of when they were started up should be culled or mothballed after a certain duration of inactivity.
But I thought I read a post where this was actually happening anyway, I think it’s down to the instance’s moderation how strictly policed communities are