A bot-driven site, providing a daily list of Communities trending across the LemmyVerse, determined by growth in subscribers.
Some people have already discovered it (meaning it’s currently featuring on its own list!), but I always intended to post on here once the bot had been running for a few days. Now that it has, it can average daily growth over the previous days, to better highlight consistent growth (vs. a random spurt in popularity).
It’s early days, but I think it’s already illustrating some interesting things: e.g. the popularity of table-top RPGs on Lemmy, the kick that “Accidental Renaissance” got from Reddit migrants, or how the sudden investment in “Antiques Memes Roadshow” threatened to break the “All” feed. There’s also appearances from Communities that featured here, so it’ll be intriguing to see if the likes of “Deal Malls” can stay on the list (tune in tomorrow to find out …).
There’s also a “NSFW” version (see the link in the sidebar), and a post to discuss suggestions for improving the algorithm and how the results are displayed.
Link 1: Trending Communities
Link 2: !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
Nice. Is there a GitHub link anywhere? I’d like to use that in my App. I was looking to implement trending communities literally the other day lol.
Not yet. It’ll be a few days before it will have 7 days’ worth of complete data to take a rolling average from. It’s fudging things a little in the meantime.
That said, it’s just a bash script (I’m not much of a coder), so I don’t know how much use it’ll be to you.