It’s another bot that watches for communities that you might want to subscribe to, and posts them so you can subscribe if you want their content.

Enjoy.

!communities@ponder.cat

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Thank you! It is monthly active user count (MAU) divided by number of subscribers. That gives a good metric for active communities, with a preference for newish communities with a lot of organic activity.

    A few times a day, it takes the highest community by that metric, that has at least 50 subscribers and hasn’t already been posted, and posts it.

    • Fitik@fedia.io
      1·
      2 months ago

      That sounds pretty cool! I have a question, does it only shares Lemmy communities, or does it shares Mbin/Piefed communities too?

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I’m pulling data from lemmyverse.net, so it is only Lemmy right now.

        I just tried to add Mbin, but it looks like Lemmyverse doesn’t have the same MAU counts for Mbin that it does for Lemmy. I like the idea of adding it, if I can get it. Do you know of a place that summarizes MAU and subscriber count for those platforms?

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I realized that it’s pretty easy for the bot to just subscribe me to any good-sized community from an Mbin or Piefed server, and then get MAU counts from the Lemmy API. I’ve done that now. It’s a bit of a hack, but communities from those instances are included in the list as of now.