Submitted 1 month ago by Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
There should be a kind of “sorting hat” personality test to attract the interest of prospective Lemmy joiners. People who love solarpunk stuff, for example, would easily find their home in slrpnk.net. Set a link to it on sites like join-lemmy.org to make the fediverse more approachable to casuals.
I’m Hufflepuff or I’m NOTHING
i saw a bird once
New user puts on hat
“Tankie!”
Next person tries on the hat
“Furry……I mean Linux user.”
Final user puts on the hat
“German!”
Doesn’t join-lemmy.org have that?
When you click to join a server, it asks about interests and language and suggests servers.
They list lemmygrad under general purpose lmao
General Purpose (of Destroying the Capitalist Pig Dogs By Siding With… Fascists?)
Unfortunately, that seems to be about local communities, which aren’t really important. In fact, due to federation, that’s the least important aspect of an instance.
By default, Lemmy is wide open to anything and everything. You need to see what they have turned off/blocked/removed, to see if it’s what you want.
Yeah I see your point. How easy would it be to sort a thousand instances automatically? Sure you could limit to the top instances, but smaller ones can be niche and I think you still need a way to recommend them. New instances also need a way to work their way up to being recommended.
A sorting hat would be cool but sounds like a lot of manual work!
It is run by the Tankie devs so I would be careful.
This is better: lemmyverse.net
I’m not quite sure what part of that Lemmyverse.net page is like a sorting hat. I would say the official one is a gentler entry point than a big list of instances.
Though I am thinking another page with a better sorting hat would be better. It’s kinda crazy a place like Hex-bear gets suggested when you want a general instance. The Fediverse Observer recommends servers but it always recommends Hilarious Chaos to me, which is crazy (it’s Exploding Heads reincarnated).
I love it, but the test would need to ask our preferences about federation and if that’s a priority. In my case, I’m in this instance because it lets me read a lot of other instances (even the infamous triad). I don’t know if we have a certain personality; I just like to lurk diverse communities.
Lemmy could really use some differing opinions and backgrounds.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I completely agree on principal.
But also think that the rule of Lemmy is that all algorithms end at porn.
But our porn and has unique surroundings of anime, politics, and Dutch.
xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Huh? I don’t see any porn, even when sorting by hot. Ah, that’s because there’s a checkbox in your settings to let you choose whether to see NSFW posts or not. I guess it works really well.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Turning it on doesn’t work well either. I have enabled NSFW and never see any of it.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And Marge Simpson, don’t forget her!
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
already said “porn”
LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I literally just saw a merge sort meme with marge
LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I don’t rlly wanna see straight porn (no hate, just not my thing xd) and honestly, I was in a pretty good spot. Then someone told me I was scrolling active instead of hot and OH MY- that’s a lot of porn
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
You’re sorting by hot, shouldn’t it be only porn? /s
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All good in the hood.
I live in /All sorted by New.
Many reasons, but I just like… seeing the whole X-ray.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I have no idea what you are saying but I upvoted because porn