I realized I cant check other instances individually with my stat system so I just took the average from all instances

for all communities that are visible to the instance 61% are dead so our instance is doing better than average

Probably a larger amount considering other instances don’t have a limiter for community creation so get a bunch more

I can check lemmy.world

with that there would need some way for people to have things to initially review to get the community started. Could do something like after the first 3 posts the point system goes into effect

Just created a community request post for it https://programming.dev/post/6295144

If anyone is interested upvote the request and if anyone wants to mod it let me know

Edit: community has been made at !code_review@programming.dev

“No connection to the Voyager app, it’s a staging environment for Lemmy named re: Star Trek”. Theyre saying its a staging area for lemmy itself not voyager

its named after the tv series star trek voyager. theres also enterprise.lemmy.ml named after star trek enterprise

Update: made !test@programming.dev and hid it from the feeds for an in-instance testing area

that exists in instances such as lemmit.online

the issue with having that in the main communities is communication will be one way if you try to reply to that. Theres bots such as the l4s bot that is in the middle of the two that ocasionally cross-posts link posts that are popular though. Thats still controversial but can be easily blocked

The testing instances were all blocked so that test posts didnt start populating the feeds

the voyager instance also has no relation to the voyager app, its not a staging area for it

if theres demand for a testing area we can make a testing community here and hide it from the feeds by default

I am noticing where its posting and im adjusting it accordingly based on that

I just didnt see a spot that has more comments than daily users as you said from the spots its posted to,but it has been posting to locations in general

The suggestion there I have fixed. The C programming language isnt being suggested anymore and dotnet and C# dont suggest each other anymore. I usually delete or edit the bots messages to account for my tweaks but forgot to do so there due to it being one of the first so ill do that now, ill also go and do the same for the rest of the bots messages. I agree other people shouldnt need to clean it up which is why ive been doing so and will do the rest now

again 1 comment occasionally isnt spam. This is just the same things over and over though in this chain so will stop on this chain. Just note I will clean up future bot messages and tweak it if it posts incorrectly which it should be doing much less now that its been refined. Other people shouldnt be needing to clean it up (if you call opting out as maintenance work its just one dm to send me and I can then deal with it) and it shouldnt be overwhelming communities. If I deem its been doing fine I can swap it to auto crosspost in the future although this doubles as leading people to post their future posts in that community without needing the bot

Ive been paying attention which is why I dont see the communities youre talking about (especially after ive tweaked things). If youre quoting the instance rules with that theres the rule #5 exception which can make bots transition to be opt out instead of opt in. If you want it removed from c++ node and cloud I can do that (I assume you do considering what youve been saying so will remove the three communities from the bots sight)

which communities? And triggering is relevant since by reducing how its triggered it reduces the about the comments it posts or as you like to call them spam

Ive responded so many times at this point saying why its not spam and why they add value

Just for you ill add a rule that it cant trigger on any of your posts

for node.js it seems like it was triggering on the .js which I just went through and removed so it should get barely any triggers now unless you explicitly mention something

for that community message it sent you posted an article about graphql and about performance

I made it not crosspost by default so I can tweak things and so people are guided for future posts. (and to prevent false positives while im tweaking things). Im purposely tweaking it to fire less and less and like I said im aiming to get it to fire on 2% of the posts

again, block the bot if you dont want it

The article on c/programming was about postgresql and the article on c/postgresql was about performance. Both were articles that could be crossposted to those communities and both are communities that need some more activity so the bot just lets the author and people who enjoy that post know about a community they may not otherwise know about.

Based on firing without me tweaking it to remove that case its fired twice in the past two days, once today and once yesterday out of all of the posts posted to the instance which is barely anything and is nowhere close to spam. There was 46 posts in the instance total today and 85 in the past two days. Its also one comment that can easily be ignored and will be buried by other comments due to how lemmy’s default comment sort works with putting newer comments at the top

If you severely dislike the bot you can block it and you will no longer see those comments

I leave this comment ulrik gave you

Hey, admin of programming.dev here

Heres a nice selection of communities from various of the topic instances including ours that might be nice for most people

• !science@mander.xyz - mander is the science and nature instance with this being one of their main communities
• !programming@programming.dev - main community for the programming.dev instance which is the instance for programming
• !gaming@lemmy.zip - main community for the lemmy.zip instance which has most of the game communities so far in lemmy
• !software_gore@programming.dev - community that just got started up in programming.dev where you can post any software malfunctions you come across
• !android@lemdro.id - main community in lemdro which is focused primarily around android

edit, heres some more:

• !chat@literature.cafe - literature instance
• !anime@ani.social - anime instance
• https://fanaticus.social - sports instance (doesnt really have a main community)
• https://lemmy.studio/ - music instance (doesnt really have a main community)

Fediseer tends to be what most people use to track and list this sort of thing (and its whats used for this instance)

https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/censured?page=1

A lot of blocks people have are of mastodon instances as well so if youre only interested in thread content that probably needs to be taken into account as well since mastodon instances tend to have more people than lemmy instances

It does add value, I just said what the value is. The bot isn’t just something that points out the opensource community, it’s for all communities and it just noticed here youre posting about open source which you are

But yeah open-source is one of the communities I’ve posted less to recently cause I tend to not get things I can post to it from what I normally browse but I can add some more activity there. Been mainly focusing on building up the language communities and communities that don’t even get posts in a week normally

I have two accounts, a mod account and a non mod account which I use to post called mac

I’ve been posting a ton of content on various communities (and am the most active poster) but this bot is just to help guide people from things like the programming community to the more specific topic communities to help get those active since c/programming tends to have content that would fit in those and its supposed to be a collector community to filter people towards other communities due to lemmy having bad community discovery out of the instance

I’ll be tweaking the triggers and making it fire less based on what I see happening over time

• that also didn’t ping me btw, you need to include the @programming.dev at the end

sometime in the next couple weeks probably based on their last development update

Theres a new algorithm that should be coming in an update soon (I assume 0.19) called Scaled

This is basically the hot algorithm but takes into account the monthly active users of the community so communities with less monthly active users show up more and arent dominated by the meme communities

Would fix the issue you say there

users/day and users/week is from all instances. Only subscribers are from your own instance (so the other two comments are wrong)

The reason is cause that only counts users who have either posted or commented and not those who have upvoted only

Source is up at https://github.com/PangoraWeb/link-bot

The one issue I ran into is alternate UIs other than lemmy-ui dont seem to collapse crossposts in the post feed so the recommendation of cross-posting everything floods people not using lemmy-ui

Going through and making issues in all of their repositories

yeah although I havent pushed changes to a repo recently, ill do that and share in a sec

figured having it as a message also makes it a spot where readers can see communities for that topic as well

Note weve also got an advent of code community that got started up into this instance at !advent_of_code@programming.dev

yeah federation broke one way only when it was broken. Replies on broken posts from here wont propagate no matter when its done

Looks like that post was made when federation was broken (there was a small window 14 days ago when it went down again) so itll still have issues with federating comments. Recent posts and comments in the community seem to still be fine

Everything seems to be fine in the database so not sure why that wouldnt propagate. Ill do some testing

The one linked by snowe above and is the cause of this is on a feature request but its not a feature request made by snowe, its one made by dessalines.

All of snowes comments got collapsed due to getting marked as off topic which seems to be making people think hes dessalines when thats another lemmy dev

Snowe in the thread explaining it

The bug report is a different thing from this (although now snowe cant comment on that thread due to being banned and everything there and in some other spots such as a pull request I was making are also marked as off topic). Probably will get resolved by dessalines based on dessalines comment but weve got Pangora being built up as well

Currently theres mostly just community requesting to create communities and community adoption so people can adopt a community if the owners and mods are gone (which I think should just be the way to handle abandoned communities)

For the gamedev community the main gamedev community gets all the gamedev posts while the others are intended to get crossposted into for people who want the separation until we get flairs (but theres been basically no gamedev discussion content in either) (children are news, showcase, discussion, and game design) I can try to get it more active

yeah its our end and thats why. Federation should be fixed now (things posted when down wont be federated still but new things will. Were setting up a cron job now to get this updated every day so it shouldnt be a problem any more)

After 3 days of no response lemmy considers things dead but the issue is is its not checking for a response

yeah it broke again for a bit, getting that up rn. Seems to be that the instance isnt automatically marking things alive so after 3 days everything is marked as dead again

Also to show thats its working heres this post on lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/post/7091281

Also adding onto this but there was an issue with the pictrs storage getting full that made the instance offline for a couple days while it affected it and so the instance could be moved to object storage. (communicated about over on the mastodon account since the site was down https://mastodon.social/@programming_dev/111237442491837823). Thats a separate issue from this one (and prevented this from getting tested properly for a bit)

lol rip guess someone broke the modlog again. If a mod enters too large of a time lemmy cant handle it and just crashes the page

Lemmy doesnt have shadow banning

Weve been struggling here with getting outbound federation working after the update to 0.18.5. Have an open issue on the lemmy repository about it. But basically currently any posts or comments made from programming.dev wont federate to other instances (but we still get all content)

Been running through some solutions today trying to get it up and probably going to pin a post about it

The grayed out button is new, normally it still lets you post but just wont show it in other instances.

Were currently just using base lemmy since pangora isn’t done so not sure why we would be different from other instances. I can try to look into it

Update: I haven’t been able to replicate jshelter showing high. I’m thinking though it might be something about lemmy 0.18.5 vs 0.18.4 since we’re on 0.18.4 still. Lemmy.ml is on 0.18.5

Update #2: Was able to replicate it from a computer restart. Could not replicate it on other lemmy 0.18.4 instances

It was put into place mostly due to that since a bunch of those communities were made with no limitations. We can look into changing if it seems to be limiting the creation of some communities but so far has just been limiting mostly topic hyperspecific communities so that the more general communities get used before splitting off into subcommunities

Eh sure, its sort of on the border but if it survives the request zone it can be added. We just require all community ideas get a score of at least 7 from !community_request@programming.dev in order to get added to show theres enough interest in the idea

lemmy.world is in general. Just instances appear in more than one spot (and some general communities appear for a category if they have the largest community for that category and theres no topic specific instances for it). For example of multiple spots lemmy.db.zer0 is in A.I., anarchist, and a couple others since it has those topics in it

The instance finder is built to encourage the use of topic specific instances rather than general use ones so that communities are grouped together better in the same site. The site can then manage all the communities effectively and have the site customized to accomodate them better (and make it feel more like a home for what you like looking at and discussion with others rather than one of many reddit clones)

Categories are mainly so that people are sent to a topic instance that matches their interests. Science goes to mander, programming to p.d, sports to fanaticus, gaming to lemmy.zip, etc.

If youve got some suggestions on how to improve it though let me know, still in progress