eviltoast.org is now discovering new communities automatically as long as they meet these criteria:
- At least 15 subscribers
- At least
5020 comments - At least
5020 posts
This means any remote community that matches the above criteria should show up when searching for communities.
I’m hoping this will help with discovering useful communities without needing 3rd party tools.
Due to the way lemmy works, the above communities are only “discovered” and we will not start getting federated posts/comments/updates for them until at least one account subscribes to the community.
In addition to the above criteria, any remote communities with over 500 100 active subscribers in the last month will also automatically be followed by a bot account.
These changes are already in place. After a few days, the above numbers might get changed to start pulling in more communities.
https://lemmyverse.net is the source being used for filtering remote communities.
Update 2023-08-06: Reduced the requirements to 20 comments, 20 posts, and 100 active users.
Can you explain what you mean by the bot account part? What is a remote community vs. a normal one? I noticed that in the Lemmy profile settings, there is a checkbox for bot account. I wasn’t sure what that was. I left it unchecked sunce I’m not a bot lol.
By bot account, I just meant an account that’s used by a script but not one anyone actually logs in to. Specifically, this guy: https://eviltoast.org/u/lemmyfollower
It’s one thing I do like about Lemmy so far. If people mark accounts as bots when they’re created, it makes it really easy to just filter out all posts made by bots. In your profile settings, you can turn off posts by bots and everything will be a lot less noisy because a lot of bots are just copying posts from reddit right now.
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