New Communities
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Rules
The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.
1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.
A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.
B. No illegal content.
C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.
D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.
E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.
2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Formatting
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/community@instance.com)
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
FAQ:
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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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.
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca ?
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.
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
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.
Generative AI specifically, AI as a whole can be useful even tho currently it's overhyped.