https://piefed.social/f/lemmycategories
Here is the outcome from the brief chat I had here.
This is not finished - not in categories, not in organisation, not in communities, but I’m getting exhausted currently. Many communities on here are old, dead, tired. Some are new. Many categories are barren, some are overfilled and need more segmentation. I’m just sharing what I’ve built as I think this could be very helpful to community advertisement and exploration.
I’d like anyone who runs or knows of communities to let me know here, so I can add them.
Very impressive.
It must be collaborative or you’ll burn yourself out.
I wonder if it can be done on [email protected] and then that information gets pulled through to another site where it could be used for filtering. And/or, as Ibis now federates with Lemmy (see [email protected]), it would just appear on here anyway and you could search “political communities” and it would bring up the relevant wiki page inside Lemmy.
This also fits with what I was pondering on Threadiverse community alternatives to subs. There are a few sites that went up with the first Rexxit but they are no longer maintained and it would be better done in a wiki.
My thinking was that Lemmy instances could have their own Ibis instance that would include a page for each community named “c/community”. So we’d have:
wiki.feddit.uk/c/privacy
And elsewhere you’d have:
wiki.lemmy.world/c/privacy wiki.lemmy.ml/c/privacy
And these could then be linked in from both:
ibis.wiki/sub_alternatives ibis.wiki/threadiverse_privacy
Nail down your naming structure early on and it should go smoothly, with wikis being flexible enough to allow changes to be made if we needed to tweak things.
It is one of the reasons why I asked @[email protected] about being able to log into Iris with your Lemmy account, because you could closely integrate Lemmy and Ibis, especially now it federates (no point in having two accounts).
https://wiki.dbzer0.com/
Yep, they do a nice job of wiki integration. We definitely want something similar with Ibis.
So top level might be:
ibis.wiki/threadiverse_categories
Under which you might have:
The latter then might contain:
Then the last one would include:
Well until some collaborative function arrives, I’ll scan communities posted on advertising communities and invite people to communicate to me their community and its categories. Taking advice for new sub-feeds and reorganisation in here, or indeed, on a hypothetical matrix room.
While I doubt Fediverse wikis will replace Wikipedia, it can definitely take on wikis/fandom but, as mentioned, it can also act as the kind of wikis subs have. So you might have:
“c/community/faqs” “c/community/archive” “c/community/tutorials” “c/community/resources” “c/community/recommendations”
Depending on their needs - meme communities might not need much, while computing, privacy, etc might want quite a few to add in useful information and links that might otherwise get buried.