I'm resuming my work on Fediverser, and I need as much help as I can get to build the Recommended community map. This crowdsourced data will be one the key points for instance admins that want to make use of the Fediverser services, and it will help immensely for people who want to migrate away from Reddit.

How does it work? The front-page gives you a list of all the subreddits with its corresponding recommendations of Lemmy communities. The ones that have no recommendation go to the top of the page. One example. You can open the page for that subreddit entry and make all the suggestions that you think are appropriate.

Every suggestion goes into a queue which I can then review and merge to the main database.

One of the things that I will be adding soon is the ability to request a community to be created. For subreddits which there is no equivalent community, people will be able to fill a form (similar to the "Create Community" page on Lemmy's default client) which will check what is the best participating instance in the network, and if the instance admins approve, the instance can be created right away.

How can you help?

Categorize the subreddits that have no entry.
Reaching out to the mods of the uncategorized subreddits
Creating community requests for the ones that are still missing.

Thank you!

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is a great project! I'll try to help out later (site seems to be down at the moment).

I do have some questions/concerns with this part:

One of the things that I will be adding soon is the ability to request a community to be created. For subreddits which there is no equivalent community, people will be able to fill a form (similar to the "Create Community" page on Lemmy's default client) which will check what is the best participating instance in the network, and if the instance admins approve, the instance can be created right away.

Who do you imagine would create the majority of these requests?
How would the "best participating instance" be determined?
How long would this process take?

We've deliberated for several days on the "best instance" for a community, and getting instance admin approval can also take time in some cases. This seems to be at odds with the "right away" goal.

Even if a community is created, it needs people to grow it, making posts and contributing to discussion. Creating new communities is not the challenge. Growing them is.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 4 months ago

seems to be down at the moment

DNS. It's always DNS... It's back now.

To answer your questions:

Who do you imagine would create the majority of these requests?

Ideally, the answer to this is "the users who sign up to a fediversed instance and see their favorite subreddit missing on the list of recommendations." If this is going to be true, I honestly do not know.

How would the “best participating instance” be determined?

By the categorization matching. If someone wants to make a community to bring a local community (e.g, for a city in Australia) it would try to match the request with aussie.zone. If it's a science focused subreddit, it should try to match it with mander.xyz, etc. Granted, this assumes that those instances are participating and using the fediverser software on their side, and at the moment I'm the only one doing, but the idea of the whole project is to create incentive for instance admins to use it.

How long would it take?

A request should trigger some type of message to the admin. So, "as long as it takes for the admin to act on the message"?

Even if a community is created, it needs people to grow it, making posts and contributing to discussion

100% agree. This is why the other leg of this creature is the "Community Ambassadors" feature, which is meant to help people to grow their communities and find them content.