This community is intended to act an index of new and active smaller and harder to find communities. Post new communities in one of the 5 primary posts.
Anyone can post new communities, just please abide by the format in the sidebar.
You can find new daily communities with this link:
https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=Local&sort=New&page=1
It’s not the best tool, but it allows you to see which communities have some activity and which are just dead spuds.
I’m open to suggestions on the descriptions of the 5 primary topics - I just ran with what I thought was a good descriptor of 5 different categories.
Feel free to use your own personal subscriptions of communities to add here. The idea is that this place can be a community pasteboard.
I’ve been using https://lemmyverse.net/communities to find communities. Warning: It has NSFW communities on it.
Seems to be mostly just a list of largest communities because it uses active users, posts, and comments as metrics. Top five are /technology /worldnews /no stupid questions /news /games all at lemmy.world
If it had option to filter newest community & scaled activity that would be neat. Lemmy needs some new communities, and the tools to allow them to grow - that’s what made reddit grow and improve (until enshittification smothered it).
Maybe you could have a weekly post to remind people this community exists? Like ‘Find a new (to you) community to follow!’ With links to the categories or something? I’m not sure how to improve discovery without occasional new posts.
But it would be nice to have a resource where you can easily leave a comment saying a community doesn’t exist anymore or it moved or whatever.
The weekly post is a good idea. I’ll look into maybe creating a bot for that in the future.
But it would be nice to have a resource where you can easily leave a comment saying a community doesn’t exist anymore or it moved or whatever.
Couldn’t anyone just reply to the deleted community comment link with something like <community deleted>?
I think most communities wind up kinda just going idle rather than deleted. The big communities have such power in numbers, it’s very difficult to sustain them without a mass influx like TenForward did. A few others have succeeded.
I think this just gives a little tool to the small communities that might need it, and it could improve Lemmy overall with more interesting and active smaller communities. The top 50 communities should really be in a constant flux if Lemmy is going to improve over time. Preferably on not just LW as well…
Couldn’t anyone just reply to the deleted community comment link with something like <community deleted>?
Oh, yeah, that’s what I was trying to say but I worded it badly. Unlike a separate website, people can just easily comment on the status. Or link to an active community with the same theme, or something.
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A bit late to the party, but as I’ve said on the other thread, could we maybe consider having this community elsewhere than Lemmy.world? Aussie.zone is still 5 days behind, and with the issues that Lemmy 0.19.7 has with pictures, it does not seem like LW is going to update any time soon
- https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5196
- https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=aussie.zone
I have a few communities I could post, but I would really prefer to have this community on another instance than LW. Lemm.ee or lemmy.zip as usual would be good candidates.
Is there a site that shows the status of all the lemmy servers? I saw the graph in your link, but I don’t fully understand what it means.
Copy pasting from the other thread
Aussie.zone is, and a few other instances regularly have issues. The issues have been here for months, are not going to be fixed any time soon as the latest Lemmy version still has issues like the pictures one: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5196
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Not sure how this will work if new posts aren’t created. Users simply won’t see this in their feed therefore they won’t interact.
Well that’s a good point. I guess it’s up to users to share the link to keep it alive.
@[email protected] , sorry I didn’t have it in the sidebar when you posted, can you edit your comment with a short description of what sticks is? thanks!
Sure thing.
The idea behind this community is to allow everyone to “create” the list of active and interesting communities without having to rely on moderators to manually curate, which typically results in links to out-of-date and inactive communities.
This is just a random idea I had, it’ll only work with community input.
I’ve found it’s really hard to find/create new communities and keep them active, and that’s mostly due to the algorithm that priorities existing communities over new.
This is one possible tool to create a user curated index to counteract the algorithm and create a list of good/active smaller communities.
I think that can work, and can complement what we try do to on [email protected] with the regular topic-focused posts
For community growth, feel free to join [email protected]
already did :) the idea behind /c/index is just that it can be a passive tool for when people need it. I’ll consider a weekly post as someone else suggested to keep it active.
