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

  • Blaze@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    Thanks for sharing, looks interesting! What do you use to identify new communities?

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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      6 days 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
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        4 days ago

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

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          3 days 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.

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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          4 days 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?