witJun 14, 2025

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!

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 threadJack

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

Jun 14, 2025 at 6:04pmWeb
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.