Yeah this is useful. Long overdue community
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!lemmy411@lemmy.ca already exists no?
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.
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.
Unfortunately the name makes it seem like it's just for ads and not asking where to post. And I am honestly surprised that you, who I think has the view of "don't make communities with the same purpose on multiple servers, consolidate unless there is a big moderation/content philosophy difference" are cool with !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca both existing. Is there a moderation/content philosophy difference I am not aware of? Is it that !newcommunities is only for new ones and !communitypromo allows any? I recall being able to post old communities that I revived, or that had to move instance on !newcommunities without any blowback, but that was awhile ago so perhaps they actually do have different philosophies now.
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
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.
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