cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27216373
Instead of focusing of creating good algorithms to push certain content to users why don’t we focus on creating a good map that allows users to find the kind of content they want more easily?
I found this website that created a map of reddit with different countries for different topics and I thought it would translate to lemmy because instances sort of do this already really well.
So maybe like some sort of list of computer instructions – which tells the computer to generate a map, and then tabulates the data and presents it to the user like…
If only we had a term for this…
Like algoism, or arithmos… something to do with calculation or something…
I never said we shouldn’t use algorithms I just think what those algorithms were doing could be different.
I forgot the project explicitly mentioned “map of communities in the Fediverse” ha ha
I think its a cool idea. I had a similar idea once: https://fungiverse.wordpress.com/2024/07/27/floo-network-anouncement/ but for the whole social web instead of just Lemmy.
Its interesting, it could get overwhelming easily though. Maybe this could be solved by only showing instances of a certain size?
For discoverability, !newcommunities@lemmy.world has regular threads
How would this help? What is the problem this addresses?
People say they have problems with discoverability. A map will help people find the content they want faster.
Discoverablility of what?
Good communities, insightful posts, etc.
You just search what you like. I’m not following how you need to discover?
For that you first have to know everything that you might like by name
If we ditched the daft names?
I always thought it would be nice if communities (and/or posts) could be tagged. It would open up a lot of potential for discoverability
Aren’t they now with version 0.19.5?
