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Thoughts on having a comment on every post that links to a list of local communities? (yiffit.net)

submitted 10 months ago by l_b_i@yiffit.net to c/meta@yiffit.net

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exists, but remote users probably aren't. I am also aware of the link in the sidebar (when present), but that is outdated and you only see it if you know its there.

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[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not from Yiffit but I think this would make a lot of sense on the NSFW communities especially, since there's not really going to be many comments anyway and if you're clicking into NSFW furry posts you're probably looking for more.

On a semi-related note, pawb.social just got set up with this thing and it's neat: https://boost.lemy.lol/

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 3 points 10 months ago

I need to have a look at this. Thank you!

[–] l_b_i@yiffit.net 2 points 10 months ago

Its a small instance too so not too many communities to list either. Its not like .world with nearly 10k communities.

[–] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 3 points 10 months ago

Seems like a good idea, fediverse navigation isn't the easiest

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 2 points 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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.