NRSK made a small website to introduce new users to the basics of Lemmy and give them an (incomplete) list of Lemmy Communities.
Hopefully this will help users find a lot of interesting content across the network, despite the home instance not federating with a particular community yet.
Such a list was something that was sorely missed when the NRSK administrator first became a user on the lemmyverse, and quite so after creating a new and isolated instance.
As mentioned, it is an unofficial site and if the devs disapprove, I can make the “unofficialness” of it clearer or discuss how we can make it work.
Manually sorting, cataloguing and estimating activity on 283 communities sure was something.
That’s why everybody is welcome to contribute to the list by submitting your own suggestions and corrections in the linked community. As of now the list is curated manually, I assume I’ve made several errors - Particularly when it comes to what “Topic” the different communities belong in.
Yes, you can sort nearly 300 communities by:
- Topic
- Name
- Instance
- Activity
- Recommendation
A lot of it could have been scraped the first time around I assume, but then there’d be no sorting by topic for sure.
You can visit the “Welcome” community by following the post link or visit https://nrsk.no/c/welcome.
The list includes a lot of instances which are essentially inactive, or even full of spam. If the list was randomized, those would often be shown at the top. I think showing most active instances is better, as people will be able to find actual discussions. I would also be open for other sorting suggestions, as long as they dont need manual intervention.
a priority can be implemented to put inactive and unmoderated instances always at the bottom of the category/tag they are listed in, explicitly acknowledging this fact in the interface.
I mentioned that it should need manual intervention. Otherwise, who will decide which instances count as active? I certainly dont have time for that.