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One of the harder aspects of navigation in lemmy is seeing interesting new communities on remote instances. What if there was a post here (meta) or chat that had links to all the local communities and when a new post is made to yiffit, a comment is added that links to the chat/meta post. That way if someone stumbles on something here they like, they don’t have to use some work around to see what else is here. I don’t know much about the lemmy API, but the list could simply check once a day?/week?/month? and update the post if anything changed.

Yes, I am aware !newcommunities@yiffit.net exists, but remote users probably aren't. I am also aware of the link in the sidebar (when present), but that is outdated and you only see it if you know its there.

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[–] Wander@yiffit.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's not a bad idea, but maybe we could have a link to !newcommunities@yiffit.net instead? Or it could be a link to a static page with a list of all communities. I think that's more feasible since it wouldn't clutter the comment section with a very long post.

[–] l_b_i@yiffit.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. The idea was not to have the list in the comments, but to link to a "static" post that has the list.

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cool, I'm already working on something. Used @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com's pythorhead library to keep it populated.

[–] l_b_i@yiffit.net 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't realize someone had made python wrappers for the API. I was actually thinking of spinning up a local instance or finding a test community to try and play around with it.