!communities@ponder.cat - Yet another community for finding new communities to subscribe to
from PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to newcommunities@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 2024 19:31
https://ponder.cat/post/300442
from PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to newcommunities@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 2024 19:31
https://ponder.cat/post/300442
It’s another bot that watches for communities that you might want to subscribe to, and posts them so you can subscribe if you want their content.
Enjoy.
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Thanks for sharing, looks interesting! What do you use to identify new communities?
Thank you! It is monthly active user count (MAU) divided by number of subscribers. That gives a good metric for active communities, with a preference for newish communities with a lot of organic activity.
A few times a day, it takes the highest community by that metric, that has at least 50 subscribers and hasn’t already been posted, and posts it.
Great!
That sounds pretty cool! I have a question, does it only shares Lemmy communities, or does it shares Mbin/Piefed communities too?
I’m pulling data from lemmyverse.net, so it is only Lemmy right now.
I just tried to add Mbin, but it looks like Lemmyverse doesn’t have the same MAU counts for Mbin that it does for Lemmy. I like the idea of adding it, if I can get it. Do you know of a place that summarizes MAU and subscriber count for those platforms?
I realized that it’s pretty easy for the bot to just subscribe me to any good-sized community from an Mbin or Piefed server, and then get MAU counts from the Lemmy API. I’ve done that now. It’s a bit of a hack, but communities from those instances are included in the list as of now.
Thanks!
Neat, sounds useful!
Such kind of communities remind me of directory of phone numbers/companies in a specific area etc… Good luck anyway