Submitted 3 days ago by Blaze@lemmy.zip to newcommunities@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/88dfb83f-153d-422f-b670-8f0b0d68c249.webp
To see it in action:
Crust.piefed.social (the Piefed development instance)
Not all instances implement it yet, I guess it depends how often they pull from the dev branch
One important thing about Lemmyverse is that you can search for communities your instance isn’t “aware of” yet. Seeing the “Add remote community” button, I guess this is something that’s not possible with Piefed’s community search?
The other day I made a feature which automatically adds every community posted to newcommunities@lemmy.world. And another feature that automatically posts to that comm whenever a local community is created.
Piefed loads the data from Lemmyverse: piefed.social/post/531611
This post only says that the Lemmyverse data “is used to suggest search results to people when adding a remote community.” Is this data also included in the communities page?
Another thought about the linked post: Removing inactive communities from the Lemmyverse data is certainly a good thing for stuff like “technology”, “memes”, “news” etc., but if you’re looking for a community about a very niche topic you might even be interested in an inactive community without active alternatives to perhaps “revive” it with your posts.
Another important thing about piefed, it was invented by a piece of shit.
People feel the same way about lemmy.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 days ago
What we really need is a revival of the functionality of the bot at !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl that died. I still miss it so much :(
Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
There was a revival attempt at !trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe , but it was short lived.
That probably shows a trend: those type of tools need to be built-in into the software, relying on Raspberry Pies, scripts and external tools to provide such features will likely lead to them being abandoned
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 days ago
Oh I missed that somehow! I’ll subscribe just in case, but I agree with you that the functionality should ideally be built in to the software.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 days ago
We do.
!trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe
But it's also running intermittently, and hasn't been updated in a week or so.
SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 days ago
Is there a Python wrapper for writing PieFed bots? Or does Pythörhead work of-the-box for PieFed?
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I don’t think piefed has the same API has lemmy, so no. It’s been something I wanted to onboard (the piefed API) ,but I haven’t fouind the time.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 days ago
No clue, sorry.
nethad@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
didn’t even realize it died :/ do you know why?
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 days ago
No idea, it just stopped working. It already didn’t work with Piefed communities I think, maybe it was taken down for maintenance and never put back up?