Save bandwidth by "pausing old accounts".

[shleeable]

Pitch

Somebody raised this idea
It'd be really sweet if say, an account that hadn't been logged into for 6 months would kind of soft-unsubscribe from things it followed in a way that didn't totally break the connections and could just resume if it was activated again.

I'd imagine if old accounts are the ONLY follow of a remote account, keeping those remote accounts in sync is wasting bandwidth.

Motivation

Saving bandwidth.

[flashymittens]

Wouldn’t that need support from all different federation servers since in the world of Fediverse others push content to you (as opposed to your server pulling), from what I understand? Not that’s impossible but need some coordination with others, perhaps? 🤔 Unless you simply drop what comes your way…

That will, however, decrease the amount of posts known to a server (and what people will be able to find, including with hashtag subscribes).

[shleeable]

Yeah.. being able to set an account to "inactive" would be nice.. but the actual point would be.. if an inactive account is the only account following a remote account on an instance, then soft unfollow.. if an active account is following them, it's business as usual.