I created !wheretopost@lemmy.world 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.
Yeah this is useful. Long overdue community
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca already exists no?
Oh, I did not know about this. What a horrible name, in my opinion… I will keep !wheretopost@lemmy.world as I think it has the better community name.
In the US, 411 was the number you dialed for “information” meaning to ask for phone numbers iirc. So it makes sense, you just may not have that context
It has a pinned post with a list of active communities, and “where to post” posts are welcome
The goal of the community seems slightly different. And also the community name itself.
It allows the same type of posts, but no harm if we want to build a few communities for people to use :)
Very good community idea. If you still need more moderators, I can mod.
Essential community! Subscribed and will try to help people, though I am also a noob at lemmy. But yes, I agree that this sort of community is extremely helpful and could vastly improve lemmy.
This is a great initiative.
Thanks! Bc I’ve asked this question myself tooo many times. This community should be very helpful to all!
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.
It has a pinned post with a list of active communities, and “where to post” posts are welcome
Ah I never see pinned posts because I browse the Threadyverse through PieFed :D
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 !wheretopost@lemmy.world.
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?
Please do not, fuck ai
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
