Just a thought: But I was reading this thread, and although I had thought of it before - it came back to me again. Seems to me that Lemmy, even a particular instance, could work on a sort of "Categorisation System" function whereby communities would be categorised under certain tags so new users (and anyone really) could filter for communities they have interest in. So you would filter by, for instance: Conversational, Memes, News, Politics, Movies, Gaming, Technology etc. Some communities could have multiple tags. It would even be cool if you could exclude certain tags too. So someone might want to see "News" but not "Politics" and filter for communities focused on news, but without any political focus. There could even be subcategories too, so: "Conservational" would have specific types of discussion underneath it: "Debate", "Casual" etc.

You could then order by activity, subscribers, creation date - much like you can now on here.

I realise there have been some attempts at this, like: !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com, but it seems abandoned (and incomplete) and too much work and too awkward to somehow represent in a particular community.

I also think that if such a system was to exist, it would have to somehow be moderated by others as any community mod could poorly or deliberately categorise their community badly. Something on a larger scale to Piefeds system.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hello @tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net, could you please help with this?

(tgxn is the owner of Lemmyverse: https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer)

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I actually can use piefed with this, and tie in custom feeds to a community but many names are taken

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

One day it would be cool if the creation and curation and maintenance of feeds more collaborative, like a wiki. Right now one person can squat on a tasty name/url and just do nothing with it, potentially. It'd be great if there was a process to get others involved in each feed, if necessary.

One day...

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if ur being sarcastic or not lol

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not :)

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You may notice I'm being spammy on there rn, but I have no intention of abandoning anything lol. I only asked because you are from piefed lol.

EDIT, oh you're the dev of piefed lol. Well I assume you can see what I'm doing then

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also, when you return - I've identified a bug with nesting. If you've got a Discord or Matrix chat or something it'd be easier to show it in screenshots.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I sent you the https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-general:matrix.org on Matrix

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, got it. Thanks (as you know)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://feddit.online/feeds allows to create feeds too.

Names should be less taken as most of the feeds were created on piefed.social

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Making feeds isn't working atm on feddit

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Hello @Jerry@feddit.online, is this a known issue?

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I already get tags from Fediseer - I don't really present them other than in the filters section.

I could probably ad them somewhere else or expand the list view with more information. Time is still pretty tight to work on new features though :(

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for coming back! We can try to crosspost this idea elsewhere and see if other people want to contribute to the Lemmyverse code.

@Skavau@lemm.ee would you be okay to create another post on !lemmyapps@lemmy.world to see if anyone would be interested in adding this feature to the Lemmyverse code?

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well presumably this on Lemmyverse would just be a tagging system at core, right? Not a nesting system.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could be both, that would be up to the dev.

As we've discussed, the nesting classification needs to take into account some categories belonging to multiple parents, but that might be possible

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Well a tagging system would just allow multiple tags. I suppose you could also build a tag hierarchy system.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm building a big nesting system on the Piefed rn. In any tagging system you make I could literally cut and paste them to communities if you trust me to do that.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't it for communities?

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Sorry, yes. Communities. My head still uses "instances" to refer to "communities".

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Didn't Lemmy already get tags for better visibility on Mastodon and other Fediverse platforms? We'd just need a way to filter or group communities by the tag and we'd be 2/3 of the way there.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Lemmy - Mastodon interactions are still clunky:https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/41740527