from wit@lemmy.world to newcommunities@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 2025 09:20
https://lemmy.world/post/31353035
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.
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Yeah this is useful. Long overdue community
This is a great initiative.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
!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
Very good community idea. If you still need more moderators, I can mod.
!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
I had no idea it existed and if I seen it I’d have had no clue what it meant
Thanks! Bc I’ve asked this question myself tooo many times. This community should be very helpful to all!
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca ?
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 :)
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.
Joined! Great idea thanks