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What is something lemmy can improve upon? (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 90 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I would like to see recommendations for communities based on my communities. It's not trivial to solve, but discoverability isn't great right now.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Problem here is also that your instance may not know about all communities from the instances you're connected to. This could probably also be improved.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Yes, that's what I mean by not trivial, a centralized system can do analysis like this a lot easier. But even on your own instance, they could find the N users with the most overlapping subscriptions and check which communities they follow to give you recommendations.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I guess the 'simple' way of doing this would be adding tags to communities like 'art' 'hobbies' 'sport' 'football' etc. This might then let the app suggest others based on the tags you are subscribed to.

    It would probably still require some AI/analytics to work out the links based on user activity in different communities/tags but I think it would make it easier to group interests and promote smaller communities.

    It could also improve Lemmy visibility in Masterdon if the tags are used as hashtags or something. (Would require more work)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Recommendation algorithms are a big reason for the enshitification of other social media. You don't need to be connected to everything everywhere all at once. Enjoy your handful of small communities.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    I don't want random posts to appear in my feed from communities I haven't subscribed to, but I want to have a feature that shows me suggestions for communities when I ask for it. That's a big difference. Right now it's (too) hard to find these communities.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Hashtags could possibly help with this. When making a post, a user can add hashtags which categorize the content. One can then search hashtags, or subscribe to them to find new communities. Probably not as passive as you'd be looking for, though.

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