An attempt to start an index of communities on Lemmy for people to find new topics.

!index@lemmy.world

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org
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    26 days ago

    Nice, let’s see how it goes.

    As a side note, did it have to be on 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

    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.

    Edit: also, !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com exists

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldOP
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      24 days ago

      Is everyone 5 days behind LW? I don’t quite really grasp how exactly there is a 5 day lag, shouldn’t Lemmy be close to real time? I don’t fully understand what’s going on in those charts but it looks like the delay will be gone in a few weeks/months?

      As far as hosting it on a different instance, this is just kinda a playful experiment. If it goes well anyone can copy the list and put it a version of it on their server.

      I clicked 5 of the links in the lemmydirectory github/wiki list and all of them the last post was 1 year ago. That’s what kinda sucks about all the indexes is that they’re either the extremely popular communities which show up in the communities tab, or extremely dead communities. The goal is to get a list of extremely active smaller communities and without changing Lemmy source code myself, this is the next best thing I could think of to make a list like that.

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldOP
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      26 days ago

      It is locked for new posts by design, everyone can comment. The idea is to have 5 main posts and a discussion thread. The 5 main posts can act as a user voted community list, and I can change the layout if anyone has suggestions in the discussion thread.

      I figured this would actually be a fairly quick way to build a curated list without any moderator involvement - essentially commenters and voters would create the list.

      • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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        26 days ago

        Sticky all of the index posts and they will always be on top. Then other people can post their own additions/discussion to allow the community to trend and be seen by people who are not subscribed.

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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        26 days ago

        Yeah, it hasn’t federated to my instance yet. I wasn’t seeing any posts, or any way to interact with the community at all. Right now, only one post is currently visible from my instance.