seems to be down at the moment

DNS. It’s always DNS… It’s back now.

To answer your questions:

Who do you imagine would create the majority of these requests?

Ideally, the answer to this is “the users who sign up to a fediversed instance and see their favorite subreddit missing on the list of recommendations.” If this is going to be true, I honestly do not know.

How would the “best participating instance” be determined?

By the categorization matching. If someone wants to make a community to bring a local community (e.g, for a city in Australia) it would try to match the request with aussie.zone. If it’s a science focused subreddit, it should try to match it with mander.xyz, etc. Granted, this assumes that those instances are participating and using the fediverser software on their side, and at the moment I’m the only one doing, but the idea of the whole project is to create incentive for instance admins to use it.

How long would it take?

A request should trigger some type of message to the admin. So, “as long as it takes for the admin to act on the message”?

Even if a community is created, it needs people to grow it, making posts and contributing to discussion

100% agree. This is why the other leg of this creature is the “Community Ambassadors” feature, which is meant to help people to grow their communities and find them content.

I agree, but I think we need to be a little more granular than this. We don’t need to create a 1:1 mapping for every subreddit, but if at least we can make it in a way that each subreddit has a recommendation in a adjacent sub-category, it will be better than just pointing to the closest/most popular community in the higher-level category.

Imagine if you are into one specific genre of games and subscribed to a bunch of different subreddits through the years for the games you enjoy. When you come to Lemmy, the recommendation is simply that you signup to a generic “Gaming” community, only to find out that no one is really talking much about your niche genre. You’d be more likely to say “this recommendation is non-sense” than “ok, I will start posting content related to the things I am interested about”.

I will see if I can some improvements. In the meantime, can you please tell me if it’s possible to work by switching to Desktop mode and landscape?

sub.rehab is definitely the first, but it has not been active for quite a while, is not focused on fediverse groups (also list Discord as alternatives) and I reckon that our database is already larger than theirs.

Mario Kart Tour!

Thank you! Communities can be managed on https://fediverser.network/communities. You can add them by going to https://fediverser.network/communities/create.

Yeah, totally understandable. I was going to suggest you to create a throwaway account, but then I realized that I am actually considering denying access to newly created accounts precisely to avoid bots and sockpuppets.

Great question and thank you for your interesting in helping. Authentication via Reddit OAuth does not give “access” to the account. Reddit will send only your username and the list of subreddits you have subscribed to. I’ve set it up this way to help build out the list of subreddits.

In any case, you are right that other authentication methods are needed. I’ll change the setup soon to allow “traditional” sign-up, and I can also add other signup methods.

tag-following / tag-muting?

The GitHub page would be the initial place to get started. It works as a separate service that needs to run alongside your Lemmy docker stack. You will need a reddit API key to allow users to login/register via Reddit.

I just advise to wait a bit because the current release is still working based on Lemmy 0.18.3 database schema. I will update it later this week.

Yeah, you are right. Looks like no one was subscribed from my instance, so it is not getting updated. If I go there directly, there are more posts.

Would you be interested in coming over to [email protected]? Now with football season starting the instance is going to be one of my main focal points to work on the new Fediverser features.

No, the LW one is even more dead. No posts for almost an year.

It’s a string of my own posts at [email protected], even though we are on week of the finals and the Celtics are close to winning their first ring since 2008.

I was thinking of breaking main into !news, !highlights and !talk. Football@soccer seems a bit redundant (and schizophrenic in terminology)

You have higher costs as you manage 10+ instances.

The costs of running the instances is sunk already, because I run them on the same infra that I use for my projects, and it’s not a couple of hundred dollars per month that is going to make or break things for me. The worst case scenario is “I go back to a full-time job and Communick becomes yet-again a side-project/hobby”. The case where any of these instances become big enough to the point that it demands more from me is better than any of the current situation.

(begware is) another model that can also work (most of the instances have celebrated their first birthday recently).

I honestly don’t see it this way. Activity through the network has been abysmal. Operating an instance at this level should be incredibly easy, but even then we have things like bigger instances having issues with lack of moderators, basic federation issues between the larger instances mostly because of network latency… all that show that we should be collectively putting a lot more resources into this if we truly want to have a credible alternative to Reddit and Facebook Groups.

If anything happened to the most popular 10 instances, Lemmy would probably die overnight.

I don’t want to sound too pessimistic, but Lemmy feels pretty much dead already. My feed is mostly content from the communities that I’ve been posting + the two of three stubborn users (like yo)u who have been trying as hard as possible to make something out of it.

Then can we do it with one, maybe?

Instance management is a much more important commitment than moderation, though.

Do you want any more commitment than a business running 10+ instances for almost a year now? Paying $1000+ per year on the domains alone?

Forgive my bluntness, but it seems that the fact that Communick is (or tries to be) a for-profit venture bothers you?

It also helps that I am running a managed instance hosting business, and I should be more comfortable doing this than the average hobbyist?

You really dislike “main”, huh?

There is also [email protected], if you prefer.