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Welcome Thread: [email protected] (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Rewrite: January 2024

Welcome one and all to BestOfLemmy! The goal of this community is "manual curation". Please post good (or best!!) posts you find around Lemmy, highlighting the discussions, communities, and people that make up the Lemmyverse.

The only real rule is manual curation. That is, if YOU think a post is worth sharing, that's good enough. Don't make automatic bots or algorithms (though you can use algorithms to aid you, like search engines or top-of-Lemmy lists... a human decision should be involved in deciding that a post is good enough to highlight).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How important is it to link/provide the original source? I have saved many great memes and such but would be majorly inconvenienced in trying to find the OP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Hmm. Ideally I'd like this place to help people find new communities in Lemmy.

Is it possible that you remember which Lemmy Community those memes came from? If so, a link to the community would be sufficient.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

hi. sorry the first thing i bring up is a criticism.

I don't see why the bestoflemmy on lemmy.world should focus on lemmy features. It seems like it should just the best stuff, like content stuff, on lemmy.world, curated for sure, but not focused. it seems a name like lemmyTricks or myfavoritelemmyfeature would encompass that mission. This is kinda sitting on a general name, and I wonder if that's why there are not more submissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There's a lot of engagement when I find truly good posts and post them here. But... I just haven't had the time to dig around Lemmy and look for the best posts.

Really, the big issue is that my #1 research tool, search-lemmy.com, has seemingly gone off-line for the last few months. So I've been discouraged with regards to looking for different good posts to highlight. Hmmm, maybe I'll make a "meta" topic about finding ideas on how to search for good topics?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To be honest, I think there are no more submissions because people just forgot about this community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok, so maybe complaining will bump it. This honestly should be a thriving place.

I for one, read the welcome message and thought "this isn't what is thought it was". I was hoping for a drop in of bestOfReddit. But of course, that is the wrong attitude. Lemmy is its own thing. I don't want to treat it as bestofreddit for lemmy unless that was the mods' intent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

To be fair, I think it's kind of a bestofReddit thing now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Test post for my alt to be promoted to moderator.