Yes, there’s also flipboard.social in those results which is worth noting through as people seem to be using that for link aggregator accounts too (especially as only a select few magazines have been brought over so far)

I just typed “flipboard” into search in Tusky:

Very true. The success of BookWyrm makes me hungry for other variations covering a range of stuff but the pool of talent isn’t massive and they all seem to be busy on various projects.

No problem. The whole.point of it is as a federated Goodreads replacement - the data is freely available, so all Goodreads has in its favour is it’s momentum and the sunk cost fallacy.

Ever since Amazon bought Goodreads I’ve been waiting for something like this, although I haven’t found the time to.impott my data and get properly stuck in. The main downside is I now want a BookWyrm for films,.comics, action figures, etc, etc. They’ll turn up eventually I suppose.

With Anna’s Archive there’d be issues of the legality of linking to it but BookWyrm does provide OpenLibrary links where available.

Ultimately, someone could create a more piracy focused fork of BookWyrm and start their own instance but I think it would be problematic for the core project to bake it in and open anyone running an instance up to legal issues. I suppose there’s nothing stopping Anna’s Archive from doing it to provide a more social interface to their database.

If you could point me to one I’d be happy to look again.

Try this.

BookWyrm is designed to be a replacement for Goodreads, so it operates in a fairly similar way.

When you log in via reddit, we should be able to get the list of all (non-user) subreddits that you are a subscriber.

It’s not anywhere near a complete list. I’ll run through it later and get some examples.

Great tool that should make migrating from Reddit smoother. I submitted quite a bit to the other sites but stopped when the updates dried up.

I am curious as to the criteria you use when displaying a list of my subscribed subs as it’s not complete but some of the subs not included are larger than some that are.

Anyway, good work and keep us in the loop.

I don’t know what the solution is on a platform level

It’s not really Lemmy’s problem, using “All” on a large instance like l.w is going to get you blasted in the face with a barrage of low effort posts, that’s just the nature of the beast.

I’m on a smaller instance (they’re all smaller than l.w which is the size of the top 50 other instances combined) and use subscriptions to manage what I see and it works out nicely.

On Lemmy (and most of the rest of the Fediverse) there aren’t, yet, fancy algorithms serving you a bespoke selection posts that filter out a lot of the “noisier” communities and boost the more interesting ones. You have to get out there and curate your own feed, it’s pretty easy but whenever I see a post complaining that there’s too much about Linux or too many memes it’s clear that the OP isn’t taking (m)any steps to improve their feed.

I’ve noticed a significant decline in the niche communities that were originally active

Niche communities can often only have one or two people posting regular content. If no-one else chips in or replies then that can be a dispiriting experience and that’s how communities die. If there’s a community you like then drop in, comment, make a post from time to time. That’s how communities gain momentum and start thriving.

Is this article/nytimes.com part of the Fediverse? Yes

FTFY. Problem solved.

if we speak about the Fediverse we mostly mean social networks like Mastodon and Lemmy.

I don’t know who this “we” is but I don’t. The Wikipedia article has a couple of good diagrams showing what most people consider to be the Fediverse - sure it includes the big dogs like Lemmy and Mastodon but it includes Wordpress and Diaspora (still need to dig out my old Diaspora account).

I don’t know, marketeers are always trying to sell you something as new that already exists.

Next step - Lemmy stats.

Yes, I don’t know enough Python to be able to take it on but I keep an eye open for these kinds of threads and throw in some context in the hope that this time it might get enough traction.

I suppose everyone’s definition of good quality code differs but you have a point about starting from scratch and if the idea was to create a more general/modular then it might make sense.

All I can say is take a look, they’ve had to solve a lot of problems most variations would also need to solve but, even starting from scratch, the solutions could be brought over.

I think the main developers being tankies might put people off from contributing, so it might also be a way to get more people involved even if the changes ultimately feel back into Lemmy itself.

The one I saw the other day was !pangora@programming.dev - the developer said their idea was to work on things the community really wants like moderation tools with the idea that this could either be integrated back into Lemmy or, if it got traction, it could become a thing in its own right.

I did Google for others and found Lenny, described by someone else as a “Lemmy fork/instance for bronies” or “a Lemmy where I can use ethnic slurs”.

Lemmy has been forked, so we may end up not actually using Lemmy here either (it’s not unusual as I’m on Calckey a fork of Misskey, although Calckey is now called Firefish and has been forked as IceShrimp - I don’t care as long as it works).

I think it took me less than a minute to block the lemnit bot.

We want to grow beyond just being a Reddit clone/replacement - mirroring active discussions here just feels like stalking an ex on Facebook.

That said, in a previous discussion about about archiving good answers from Reddit, I did suggest that this would be a great use for a wiki that was integrated into Lemmy. Being about to semi-automate the retrieval and formatting would be useful. I think starting new threads for them isn’t the way to go.

I like it:

"LemmyKnow: Your Guide to Lemmy and the Threadiverse’

LemmyGuide seems suitably beginner friendly and should do better in search engine results.