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.

  • wit@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    22·
    1 day 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 !wheretopost@lemmy.world.

      • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        1 day 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.

        • Jack@slrpnk.net
          English
          3·
          1 day 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.

          • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
            21·
            1 day 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.

            • Jack@slrpnk.net
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              2·
              1 day 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?

              • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
                21·
                1 day 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.

                • Jack@slrpnk.net
                  English
                  3·
                  1 day 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 !fuck_ai@lemmy.world

                  • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
                    1·
                    20 hours ago

                    Is your opposition to AI in general or generative AI? Because there’s absolutely no need for generative AI here.

                    I won’t have an opportunity to watch a video for a while, so maybe the answer is clearer with that context, but I don’t have it right now.