seems to be down at the moment

DNS. It’s always DNS… It’s back now.

To answer your questions:

Who do you imagine would create the majority of these requests?

Ideally, the answer to this is “the users who sign up to a fediversed instance and see their favorite subreddit missing on the list of recommendations.” If this is going to be true, I honestly do not know.

How would the “best participating instance” be determined?

By the categorization matching. If someone wants to make a community to bring a local community (e.g, for a city in Australia) it would try to match the request with aussie.zone. If it’s a science focused subreddit, it should try to match it with mander.xyz, etc. Granted, this assumes that those instances are participating and using the fediverser software on their side, and at the moment I’m the only one doing, but the idea of the whole project is to create incentive for instance admins to use it.

How long would it take?

A request should trigger some type of message to the admin. So, “as long as it takes for the admin to act on the message”?

Even if a community is created, it needs people to grow it, making posts and contributing to discussion

100% agree. This is why the other leg of this creature is the “Community Ambassadors” feature, which is meant to help people to grow their communities and find them content.

I agree, but I think we need to be a little more granular than this. We don’t need to create a 1:1 mapping for every subreddit, but if at least we can make it in a way that each subreddit has a recommendation in a adjacent sub-category, it will be better than just pointing to the closest/most popular community in the higher-level category.

Imagine if you are into one specific genre of games and subscribed to a bunch of different subreddits through the years for the games you enjoy. When you come to Lemmy, the recommendation is simply that you signup to a generic “Gaming” community, only to find out that no one is really talking much about your niche genre. You’d be more likely to say “this recommendation is non-sense” than “ok, I will start posting content related to the things I am interested about”.

I will see if I can some improvements. In the meantime, can you please tell me if it’s possible to work by switching to Desktop mode and landscape?

sub.rehab is definitely the first, but it has not been active for quite a while, is not focused on fediverse groups (also list Discord as alternatives) and I reckon that our database is already larger than theirs.

Thank you! Communities can be managed on https://fediverser.network/communities. You can add them by going to https://fediverser.network/communities/create.

Yeah, totally understandable. I was going to suggest you to create a throwaway account, but then I realized that I am actually considering denying access to newly created accounts precisely to avoid bots and sockpuppets.

Great question and thank you for your interesting in helping. Authentication via Reddit OAuth does not give “access” to the account. Reddit will send only your username and the list of subreddits you have subscribed to. I’ve set it up this way to help build out the list of subreddits.

In any case, you are right that other authentication methods are needed. I’ll change the setup soon to allow “traditional” sign-up, and I can also add other signup methods.

tag-following / tag-muting?

There is no way to know without access to the admin dashboard. You can get an idea of how active an instance is by checking the federated timeline stream, though.

If you are the admin of the instance, you can it set up.

If you don’t have that problem, it is either because your instance is well connected and/or using some relay.

FWIW, all server-based software works like that. Lemmy, Pixelfed, Pleroma…

What we need is more clients implementing the C2S spec, but I will refrain from getting into another tirade about this.

I just pointed out “the old times” to respond to your idea that “it has always been this way”.

It’s funny how young people think that the world has been invented the moment they were born. Everything that came before that can be simply erased.

that it skews too much to the right.

Ok. According to you, extremism and othering is okay when done by a leftist.

Thank you very much for showing your true colors. You can go now…

Yeah, it would take one person on the bigger instances to do it. We can promote them in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and things should get bootstrapped.

Voting has always been about whether you agree or not with an opinion

No, that is absolutely false. Before Reddit’s Eternal September, voting was used as a way to signal quality content and it pretty much was followed by a good majority of the people.

Right-wing as in neo-nazi? I would not join a community in that server.

And this is precisely what people are talking about here. You might not see that way, but tankies are extremists. There are people that don’t want to join any conversation there, and therefore this is why they want alternatives.

Think of what?

It makes they think "what is so bad about this comment that it really warrants the downvote.

Does not voting against your post not count as compliance?

I didn’t ask you to remove the downvote. I asked you only to explain your reasoning, which is now quite clearly faulty.

It should: https://sh.itjust.works/c/jellyfin@poweruser.forum

Or do we expect people to hear about it by another mean?

Yes. Fediverser will help newcomers. Posting content in the “new communities” will help those already here. Everyone browses by all anyway, so the best way to promote new communities is by putting content there.

Do you think I can just keep the last comment in mind or something?

YES! It’s not like votes are worth anything here, but one of the reasons that voting mechanisms become completely useless as a way to signal quality conversations is when people blindly upvote/downvote everything just because they don’t like what is being said. People that do what you are doing end up showing more about themselves than about the one posting the comment that you didn’t like.

As does the drive to try and split communities

Would you feel so defensive about it if the communities were being hosted in a right-wing instance?

Why would tagging people who downvoted a post prevent a pile-on of downvotes?

Because it makes people think about what about the comment they are downvoting, instead of reflexively clicking on a button.

vote->get called-out seems to fit ‘blackmail’

It does not fit at all. I’m not trying to get anything out of you for my own benefit, and I am not doing it to submit you into compliance.

For that, I really have no answer other than “help with fediverser, stick with one community, and post as much as possible in the promoted communities”.

Don’t worry about it for now. I will do it until someone steps up for it. Also, don’t forget that I am actually working on tooling to make this job easier, so having any type of growing community would be an excellent way to find out the real pain point for moderators and work on the solutions.