Lefty Memes, 37.37% subs growth over 7 days
Google Pixel, 23.49% subs growth over 7 days
nature is fucking lit, 16.93% subs growth over 7 days
Fuck YOU In Particular - Not him, nor her; just you., 15.46% subs growth over 7 days
CreepyWikipedia, 14.50% subs growth over 7 days
Software recommendations, 13.81% subs growth over 7 days
Be Amazed, 12.61% subs growth over 7 days
James Webb Space Telescope, 11.44% subs growth over 7 days
hmmm, 10.88% subs growth over 7 days
Vintage, 10.43% subs growth over 7 days
Don’t You Know Who I Am?, 10.03% subs growth over 7 days
OnePiece, 9.22% subs growth over 7 days
Entomology, 8.88% subs growth over 7 days
internet funeral, 8.04% subs growth over 7 days
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs, UFOs, The Phenomenon), 7.66% subs growth over 7 days
electricvehicles, 7.55% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Fox pics, 7.12% subs growth over 7 days
Ask Men, 6.68% subs growth over 7 days
cool websites, 6.31% subs growth over 7 days
DiWHY: Questioning why some things exist, 6.25% subs growth over 7 days
Red Pandas, 5.98% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Enshittification, 5.98% subs growth over 7 days
Mealtime Videos, 5.50% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Doomers, 5.29% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Perfect Fit: Things fitting perfectly into each other, 5.24% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Trash Pandas, 5.11% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
FitMoe, 4.90% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
metal, 4.81% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Data Engineering, 4.11% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Raspberry Pi Pico, 4.06% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
bunnies, 3.95% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Shin Megami Tensei + Persona, 3.47% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
FoundryVTT, 3.41% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Dogs, 3.19% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Indonesia, 3.14% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Bikepacking, 3.12% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Proxmox, 3.07% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
New England Patriots, 2.73% subs growth over 7 days, NEW ENTRY
Linguistics Humor, 11.51% subs growth over 6 days
Ask Lemmy, Ouija Style, 7.99% subs growth over 6 days, NEW ENTRY
cubers, 4.80% subs growth over 6 days, NEW ENTRY
What’s this Bug?, 4.33% subs growth over 6 days, NEW ENTRY
Trending Communities (Who? ME?), 19.93% subs growth over 5 days
Alternative Nation: 80s College Rock to Today’s Indie Music, 12.33% subs growth over 5 days
microgrowery, 8.95% subs growth over 5 days, NEW ENTRY
LightNovels, 4.63% subs growth over 5 days, NEW ENTRY
The Default Community, 9.43% subs growth over 4 days, NEW ENTRY
kitchenconfidential, 5.85% subs growth over 4 days, NEW ENTRY
Dead by Daylight, 5.72% subs growth over 4 days, NEW ENTRY
All things Dragon Ball 🐉, 4.68% subs growth over 4 days, NEW ENTRY
I absolutely love these posts, I just wish they also displayed absolute numbers for total members.
Yeah lots of them show growth but only have 1 or 2 posts. I think a description of the community would be nice too.
That being said every day I’m finding new cool places here. Love these posts.
Adding descriptions would be complicated tbh: some are massive (so it’s difficult to know where to cut off), the JSON from lemmyverse.net doesn’t include them, and I’d have to make a new decision about how many Communities to include (this post would probably be unmanageable if it was full of descriptions too)
The metric used (subscriber growth) doesn’t account for if there’s actually much of anything there, but I like that these lists highlight new stuff that people might be interested in, rather than ones that people probably already know about.
I don’t think adding descriptions should be a priority. It would be a nice-to-have if it could somehow be in the tooltip when hovering the link, or in a spoiler maybe, but that seems like a lot of work for marginal gain. I definitely would not want the post cluttered, and I think having a longer list is better than a shorter list but with descriptions. They’re only a click away in the community sidebar, anyway.
These lists have been great and like I said elsewhere, I wish it was actually incorporated officially somehow, either as the “trending communities” (which currently only means “newly created communities” as far as I know) or as a default subscription for new accounts or something.
Still, I wonder if it can be refined further. Is it possible for the formula to account for posts? Maybe that’s undesirable, but for me, I’m usually looking for communities that are somewhat active when browsing these, so filtering out results that haven’t had a new post during the last week would be great for my purposes. Or at least filtering out completely empty communities. Or is Lemmy still at a stage of growth where this would be unproductive?
EDIT: punctuation
This is the response for a community:
{ "baseurl": "lemmy.world", "url": "https://lemmy.world/c/starwarsmemes", "name": "starwarsmemes", "title": "Star Wars Memes", "desc": "Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.\n\nTechnical note: if you're coming from another star system and are getting a \"Subscription pending\" message when trying to dock, that's just the console being slow to display the right message. The connection is already established. (Probably.)\n\n\n\nSp", "icon": "https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1df05a77-c6dd-4662-9ea3-62a24ca9a25f.jpeg", "banner": "https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a6a96e24-de89-4720-9bbe-9ca5447dc6e3.png", "nsfw": false, "counts": { "id": 287, "community_id": 465, "subscribers": 7847, "posts": 216, "comments": 1734, "published": "2023-06-07T14:25:41.586869", "users_active_day": 10, "users_active_week": 204, "users_active_month": 905, "users_active_half_year": 945, "hot_rank": 0 }, "time": 1689730109444, "isSuspicious": false, "score": 2895543 }To give you an idea of which information is / isn’t available (I don’t know why I thought the description wasn’t in there)
The other “trending” lists work off “users_active_week” I think, but - for me - seem as likely to link me to something inactive/empty. Post today vs. posts yesterday would be doable (but I’d probably rather read one interesting post in ‘hobbydrama’ over then posts from ‘risa’)
I think posts today vs posts yesterday would filter out too many communities since Lemmy is still - on the whole - fairly small. Domain-Driven Design ( !ddd@programming.dev) for example is on todays list, but has no new posts the last 24 hours and only one post the last week.
If we’re hunting for a single metric for trending communities, what about a composite between both subscriber growth and activity this week compared to activity last week?
Thanks for the suggestion - I’ll give it a try. There’s so many Communities (about 20k) and they don’t change that often, so it’s difficult to know what the best metrics are. Only really to try something new and see whether it produces something interesting. So I’ll continue experimenting.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
The new posts (from today onwards) include the subscriber count in them.