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I created WhereToPost. The goal is to help find the right community for specific content.

https://lemmy.world/post/31353035

I created WhereToPost. The goal is to help find the right community for specific content. - Lemmy.World

I created [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.world/c/wheretopost] because I still find Lemmy a bit confusing. Since there are so many communities across so many servers, I never know where I should be posting certain topics. The goal of this community is to help people find the right community to post specific content and, by doing that, hopefully, decrease posting friction and increase content. Please subscribe and help people find the right community! I know it may not seem like much, but I have had so many instances of content that I wanted to post but ended up just saying"fuck it" because I didn’t know where I should be posting it. This friction multiplied by hundreds of people does make the difference!

Jun 14, 2025 at 9:20amWeb
Show threadSnokenKeekaGuardJun 14, 2025
Yeah this is useful. Long overdue community
Show threadCoelacanthJun 14, 2025
This is a great initiative.
Show threadamosJun 14, 2025
Essential community! Subscribed and will try to help people, though I am also a noob at lemmy. But yes, I agree that this sort of community is extremely helpful and could vastly improve lemmy.
Show threadJeenaJun 14, 2025

I think this is a very good idea, after two years I still have that question every now and then.

At the same time I was just thinking that that would be a good use case for ai, where you'd feed it with the list of all instances, communities and theirdescriptions and it could then reason a bit and suggest two or three communities for you.

Show threadwitJun 14, 2025
100% agree that this would be a nice job for AI. I have no idea how to do that though. If anyone wants to create a Bot that does this, please do so and let me know! I will do whatever I need to do on my end, if anything, to allow it on WhereToPost.
Show threadJackJun 14, 2025
Please do not, fuck ai
Show threadhowrarJun 14, 2025
Are there people who want to do it manually? If so, that’ll be ideal, but otherwise, it’s a perfect use case for automation.
Show threadJackJun 14, 2025
I do not look at this as problem to be optimised and solved, we are in a social media, the idea is to talk with people, to feel connected and to exchange ideas. It is not perfectly optimal, but it also shouldn’t be.
Show threadhowrarJun 14, 2025
One of the problems with Lemmy right now is that it’s hard to find people with similar interests to connect and exchange ideas with. It doesn’t need to be perfectly optional, but an improvement would be nice.
Show threadJackJun 14, 2025

I don’t think that is the case, but let’s for the sake of argument assume it’s so. Will populating lemmy with bots help this in any way?

Isn’t better solution to make the spaces and be the person who interacts with others?

Show threadhowrarJun 14, 2025
If the purpose of the bot is to help you find people to interact with, I think so. In my case, I’ve already made the space, but there’s no one to interact with. I don’t know if it’s a matter of no one on Lemmy having the same interests or that they don’t know that the community exists. A bot/person to redirect people there would at least rule out the possibility of the latter.
Show threadJackJun 14, 2025

I do not oppose improving connectivity in lemmy, I oppose doing it using AI.

There are already sites that help you explore lemmy communities like this one.

And there are a lot of ethical and technical concerns of using AI. On this you can see this video. Or read anything in [email protected]

Lemmy Explorer

Instance and Community Explorer for Lemmy

Show threadhowrarJun 14, 2025

Is your opposition to AI in general or generative AI? Because there’s absolutely no need for generative AI here.

I won’t have an opportunity to watch a video for a while, so maybe the answer is clearer with that context, but I don’t have it right now.

Show threadJackJun 14, 2025
Generative AI specifically, AI as a whole can be useful even tho currently it’s overhyped.
Show threadJeenaJun 14, 2025

The raw data is here: https://data.lemmyverse.net/

But it's probably too much to have it in a prompt. There needs to be some work done to add it to some training data or so?

Lemmy Explorer :: Data

Show threadBlaze (he/him) Jun 14, 2025

[email protected] ?

It has a pinned post with a list of active communities, and “where to post” posts are welcome

Community Promo - Lemmy.ca

— Promote your favourite communities and groups! This includes communities on Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, NodeBB, Matrix, Signal, etc. — — 🗣️ Tips for promoting a community: - Use a descriptive title - Link to the community using the universal format: [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo] - Add an image or icon to your post — While you can still ask about communities that you are looking for, we recommend that you: - Post in [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmy411] (not limited to Lemmy communities) - Check out this guide: How to Find Communities (fedecan.ca) [https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities] — — Community Rule(s): 1. Reposts: Outside of major community changes (ex. events, new management), please limit posts about about a particular community to 1 post / month —

Show threadJeenaJun 14, 2025
Ah I never see pinned posts because I browse the Threadyverse through PieFed :D
Show threadeatham 🇦🇺Jun 14, 2025
Very good community idea. If you still need more moderators, I can mod.
Show threadFundMECFSJun 14, 2025
[email protected] already exists no?
Lemmy411 - Don't know where to find what you're looking for? - Lemmy.ca

This is where you ask about the Threadiverse community you’re looking for but not finding. See the stickied post for tools and other communities that may help you find what you’re looking for or discover something new. When sharing community links, please use the universal format: [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] Rules 1. Don’t be a jerk or be deliberately unhelpful 2. Please post a clear easy to understand request for a community (or instance!) 3. Pls no NSFW requests - if you want to create /c/NSFW411 go ahead. 4. No posting of personal information 5. Please refrain from suggesting users should use search engines or directories. 6. No joke, troll or misleading suggestions or requests 7. No spam

Show threadwitJun 14, 2025
Oh, I did not know about this. What a horrible name, in my opinion… I will keep [email protected] as I think it has the better community name.
WhereToPost - Lemmy.World

I created this community because I still find Lemmy a bit confusing. Since there are so many communities across so many servers, I never know where I should be posting certain topics. The goal of this community is to help people find the right community to post specific content and, by doing that, hopefully, decrease posting friction and increase content. --------- Lemmy Verse [https://lemmyverse.net/communities] is extremely helpful for this sort of thing. In order to link a community, you should be using the format [email protected] [/c/[email protected]].

Show threadTrickDacyJun 15, 2025
In the US, 411 was the number you dialed for “information” meaning to ask for phone numbers iirc. So it makes sense, you just may not have that context
Show threadLady Butterfly she/herJun 15, 2025
I had no idea it existed and if I seen it I’d have had no clue what it meant
Show threadDearMoogleJun 14, 2025
Thanks! Bc I’ve asked this question myself tooo many times. This community should be very helpful to all!
Show threadBlaze (he/him) Jun 14, 2025

[email protected] ?

It has a pinned post with a list of active communities, and “where to post” posts are welcome

Community Promo - Lemmy.ca

— Promote your favourite communities and groups! This includes communities on Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, NodeBB, Matrix, Signal, etc. — — 🗣️ Tips for promoting a community: - Use a descriptive title - Link to the community using the universal format: [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo] - Add an image or icon to your post — While you can still ask about communities that you are looking for, we recommend that you: - Post in [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmy411] (not limited to Lemmy communities) - Check out this guide: How to Find Communities (fedecan.ca) [https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities] — — Community Rule(s): 1. Reposts: Outside of major community changes (ex. events, new management), please limit posts about about a particular community to 1 post / month —

Show threadwitJun 14, 2025
The goal of the community seems slightly different. And also the community name itself.
Show thread[email protected]Jun 14, 2025
It allows the same type of posts, but no harm if we want to build a few communities for people to use :)
Show threadElevator7009Jun 15, 2025
Unfortunately the name makes it seem like it’s just for ads, and I am honestly surprised that you, who I think has the view of “don’t make communities with the same purpose on multiple servers, consolidate unless there is a big moderation/content philosophy difference” are cool with [email protected] and [email protected] both existing. Is there a moderation/content philosophy difference I am not aware of?
Show threadLady Butterfly she/herJun 15, 2025
Joined! Great idea thanks