I created [email protected] because I still find Lemmy a bit confusing. Since there are so many communities across so many servers, I never know where I should be posting certain topics.

The goal of this community is to help people find the right community to post specific content and, by doing that, hopefully, decrease posting friction and increase content.

Please subscribe and help people find the right community!

I know it may not seem like much, but I have had so many instances of content that I wanted to post but ended up just saying"fuck it" because I didn’t know where I should be posting it. This friction multiplied by hundreds of people does make the difference!

EDIT: I am looking for 2 (or so) mods for this new community. If you are interested in modding, please let me know. There shouldn’t be too much work. Just remove spam, if it ever happens.

  • JeenaEnglish
    4•27 days ago

    I think this is a very good idea, after two years I still have that question every now and then.

    At the same time I was just thinking that that would be a good use case for ai, where you’d feed it with the list of all instances, communities and theirdescriptions and it could then reason a bit and suggest two or three communities for you.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      3•27 days ago

      100% agree that this would be a nice job for AI. I have no idea how to do that though. If anyone wants to create a Bot that does this, please do so and let me know! I will do whatever I need to do on my end, if anything, to allow it on [email protected].

        • @[email protected]English
          2•27 days ago

          Are there people who want to do it manually and capable of doing so? If so, that’ll be ideal, but otherwise, it’s a perfect use case for automation.

          • JackEnglish
            3•27 days ago

            I do not look at this as problem to be optimised and solved, we are in a social media, the idea is to talk with people, to feel connected and to exchange ideas. It is not perfectly optimal, but it also shouldn’t be.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•27 days ago

              One of the problems with Lemmy right now is that it’s hard to find people with similar interests to connect and exchange ideas with. It doesn’t need to be perfectly optimal, but an improvement would be nice.

              • JackEnglish
                2•27 days ago

                I don’t think that is the case, but let’s for the sake of argument assume it’s so. Will populating lemmy with bots help this in any way?

                Isn’t better solution to make the spaces and be the person who interacts with others?

                • @[email protected]English
                  2•27 days ago

                  If the purpose of the bot is to help you find people to interact with, I think so. In my case, I’ve already made the space, but there’s no one to interact with. I don’t know if it’s a matter of no one on Lemmy having the same interests or that they don’t know that the community exists. A bot/person to redirect people there would at least rule out the possibility of the latter.

                  • JackEnglish
                    3•27 days ago

                    I do not oppose improving connectivity in lemmy, I oppose doing it using AI.

                    There are already sites that help you explore lemmy communities like this one.

                    And there are a lot of ethical and technical concerns of using AI. On this you can see this video. Or read anything in [email protected]

      • JeenaEnglish
        1•27 days ago

        The raw data is here: https://data.lemmyverse.net/

        But it’s probably too much to have it in a prompt. There needs to be some work done to add it to some training data or so?

      • JeenaEnglish
        2•27 days ago

        Ah I never see pinned posts because I browse the Threadyverse through PieFed :D