Seems like I forgot to mention that you should do it if you’re confident in posting there from time to time. Otherwise there will be 2 dead communities instead of one.

LW is too big for it’s own good. Admins have to take care of a lot of stuff and centralisation itself isn’t that great for lemmy/fediverse either. I say create a new one on different instance. I think mander is more scientific when solarpunk is more progressive?? I have a feeling that it would fit mander more where people know their stuff could see and comment on the posts.

Happy cake.

I’ve been staring at it for a moment and am still unsure if I understood everything properly. xd

They just want to stick to the platform being a link aggregator and not social media. Don’t remember the arguments because I haven’t read the issues on that for a while now.

Also lemmy devs refused to implement this after the exodus. If nothing changed then it won’t be implemented.

I will start working on a post describing what this directory is and how it works tomorrow. But it boils down to:

1. I work on markdown and organise communities in obsidian and then copy/pase it into github files which get synced into directory posts through script. It’s to prevent a situation where posts are relying on one person and allow more people to work on the directory.

2. Weekly (soon every 2 weeks) posts made for each category where best posts from each community in the category are ranked for people to discover more communities they might like. Each category is posted by a separate bot so people who don’t like a specific category can yeet out the bot and only see what they want.

3. I discover communities through my alt (this LW account). I do that by blocking communities that are already in the directory and communities that I don’t want to add (at least short term) and subscribing to communities that I want to add. I sort by new.

You can follow the github page for the discussions and plans regarding the directory. Today I set up some milestones so you can take a look at them too: https://github.com/fnic-lemmy/lemmy-directory/milestones

I plan to finish the first milestone and announce the directory next week.

Almost forgot, the person working on the code is the other person you see on this github project. We also had small help with code from someone else that isn’t as deep into the project as both of us are.

I’m working on a directory (community list specifically, someone else is taking care of programming) !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com to make it easier to discover communities to follow and block communities you’re not interested in because I also dislike the political stuff. I’m currently busy with other parts but soon I will be looking into ways to allow users to subscribe/block communities in bulk. Sharing this because I just happened to find this post while looking for communities for the directory.

E: here’s the GH page for it: https://github.com/fnic-lemmy/lemmy-directory

I did this and somehow still see them. Not sure the reason.

I also made this comment before I realised what the OP was trying to achieve. I thought he was downvoted because he asked “stupid” question as I was barely awake at this point. Haha

I still think some communities would benefit from disabling them though. But as you say there probably isn’t a way to achieve that with current lemmy.

This community urgently needs to be hosted on an instance without downvotes. Maybe there’s one somewhere.

@Blaze@reddthat.com you like migrating comunities to better places so maybe you could look into that. I don’t mind featuring the alternative community above this one when I implement discussion section in the directory.

I thought it would fit because it’s pretty much nonexsistent in today’s world. If more people are for deleting it then I will delete it and replace it with a different hmmm.

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