You Should Know @lemmy.world DisappointingIntro @lemmy.world 12 mo. ago

YSK About Trending Communities

This is a bot driven community which scans subscriber counts daily and uses the difference to generate a list of trending communities. Great for discovering new, active and growing communities!

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Appreciate this but by what I've observed that many communities have a lot of people subscribe to them but have no posts.
- Yeah I clicked this link and it's completely blank for me. No posts, no nothing.
- Sometimes you have to change your post sorting option once you click through to the community to see all the posts. I have mine set to "Top Twelve Hours" as the default because I like that for my front page, but once I get into the community I often have to change it to "New" and then I'll see a lot more posts.
Thanks, I subscribed.
Crazy how much of the fediverse activity is on lemmy.world - and is swaps for the usual subreddit suspects
- I blame unfederated subscriber counts. If you look up any community from an account on lemmy.world and there is a local version and a remote version... the local version LOOKS bigger when it's about half the size because the remote version only shows subscribers from lemmy.world whereas the local version shows subs fediverse-wide.
  
  If sub counts were apples to apples for remote and local communities, people would much more frequently sub to the bigger remote comminity. But lemmy.world is so big, that when people are subbing locally because they're confused about which is bigger... the lemmy.world community actually becomes bigger very quickly. So it's winning the community scaling races consistently on pure confusion. The resulting community centralization is not all that healthy and they often overtake better run and more established communities for no meaningful reason.
  
  I'm with you on all points
  
  How can one avoid this "trap?"
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Weird, I see no content there from my instance but if I open it normally I can see the two posts
- It depends on if you were the first person on your instance to subscribe, and if that subscription happened before or after the posts were made. Lemmy doesn't do backfilling content, which means only new content after the subscription happens will be visible to your instance. I'm not a fan of that personally, but I can see why they did it that way.
  
  AFAIK lemmy will backfill older content but at the lowest priority.
  
  Oh, thanks for explaining that. I started following some kbin magazines on my instance and thought there was maybe a sync issue, but no new posts have been created yet, so this makes a lot more sense!
  
  It's coming up as empty for me too, how can that be if others from this instance have already subscribed? Does my subscription need to be approved or something?
Maybe this is a stupid question but following that link on my phone takes me to a place to login on Reddit.nl, my username doesn’t work there. I also tried myusername@my.instance and it didn’t work. So how’s the best way to subscribe to these?
- On Kbin I search for this: @trendingcommunities @ feddit.nl (no spaces)
  
  And subscribe to the community/magazine in the search results.
  
  For you it's probably available at: Lemmy.world/c/trendingcommunities
  
  Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
Test post to see how to make the link clickable in a way that opens it in apps.

/c/trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

Edit: this worked
- Not for me, I see no posts on that link.
  
  If you’re the first subscriber from your server you need to subscribe and then refresh
YSK that there's also an NSFW version:

!trendingcommunities@lemmynsfw.com

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