Rewrite: September 2024

Welcome one and all to BestOfLemmy! The goal of this community is “manual curation”. Please post good (or best!!) posts you find around Lemmy, highlighting the discussions, communities, and people that make up the Lemmyverse.

There are two rules: Manual Curation and beginner-to-lemmy focus. Please share content on Lemmy that helps introduce Lemmy to newbies!

Don’t make automatic bots or algorithms make your pick here. Although its fair game to use bots / algorithms / search engines to look for content, the ultimate decision to post must be made by you. Aside from that, have fun!

EDIT: Discussion in this Welcome Thread is extremely loose. Its important for any community to have a place for freeform discussion, including meta-criticism and wandering off topic, so that individuals are free to express yourself. I won’t be moderating this topic as much as other posts however. Still feel free to report posts that cross the line, but comments here specifically are intended to be more freeform.

  • Ook the LibrarianEnglish
    3•11 months ago

    hi. sorry the first thing i bring up is a criticism.

    I don’t see why the bestoflemmy on lemmy.world should focus on lemmy features. It seems like it should just the best stuff, like content stuff, on lemmy.world, curated for sure, but not focused. it seems a name like lemmyTricks or myfavoritelemmyfeature would encompass that mission. This is kinda sitting on a general name, and I wonder if that’s why there are not more submissions.

    • @dragontamerOPMEnglish
      2•11 months ago

      There’s a lot of engagement when I find truly good posts and post them here. But… I just haven’t had the time to dig around Lemmy and look for the best posts.

      Really, the big issue is that my #1 research tool, search-lemmy.com, has seemingly gone off-line for the last few months. So I’ve been discouraged with regards to looking for different good posts to highlight. Hmmm, maybe I’ll make a “meta” topic about finding ideas on how to search for good topics?

    • @[email protected]English
      1•11 months ago

      To be honest, I think there are no more submissions because people just forgot about this community

      • Ook the LibrarianEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        Ok, so maybe complaining will bump it. This honestly should be a thriving place.

        I for one, read the welcome message and thought “this isn’t what is thought it was”. I was hoping for a drop in of bestOfReddit. But of course, that is the wrong attitude. Lemmy is its own thing. I don’t want to treat it as bestofreddit for lemmy unless that was the mods’ intent.