Davy_Jones

I asked something in c/nostupidquestions and got downvoted heavily, was I really out of line? I felt so unwelcomed that I decided to leave Lemmy.

I was wondering if there’s a site or database that shows how common different hobbies are in each country—like reading books, playing board games, listening to music, cooking, etc.

Does such a ranking or survey exist?

Imagine a TierMaker where everyone can rank the same things, and instead of just your personal list, it shows a combined “community consensus.” Would be interesting to see how the internet as a whole ranks thinks.

The other day I turned on the radio and the host was giving what sounded like a sermon about “growth” and how everyone loves it because it improves life quality and makes things cheaper. I already avoid mainstream news because it’s all one-sided and shallow, but now I’m getting sermons too.

Is there any way to listen to radio content filtered by topics I actually want, without having to manually build a playlist every day? Maybe podcasts or a feed aggregator plus with TTS to read it in real time?

I saw a post earlier about a local alternative to Perplexity (an agentic LLM + search), but now I can’t find it. Does anyone know the best way to track down posts like this?

Also, is there any community where you can ask for help searching posts on the Fediverse, or is nostupidquestions fine for that?

I really wish posts were properly organized using tags. Finding stuff would be so much easier.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55628224

I’ve been thinking about discovering underappreciated Lemmy instances. GitHub’s awesome-lemmy-instances used to serve a similar purpose, but it hasn’t been updated in a long time, and I haven’t found anything else like it.

I got the idea from this post about finding decentralized communities in the Fediverse. I’m thinking of a Lemmy bot that tracks Lemmy instances, calculates the average number of active users and standard deviation, and identifies instances with activity below the average plus two standard deviations. It would then rank these underutilized instances by performance metrics like uptime and response time, and periodically update a curated list on Lemmy to guide users toward instances that could use more participation.

I'd love feedback on how you would go about doing something like this. And specifically how to rank by performance.

Today I discovered the Fediverse Software Database, and it’s a bit disheartening to see how many platforms have so few users. What are some ways we could help promote these smaller or newer Fediverse projects and give them more visibility?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55547080

I’ve just found out that some Lemmy web interfaces let you sign in with multiple accounts and switch between them easily. Is there any client that can show notifications from all accounts at the same time, so I don’t need to switch back and forth?

I’ve checked out Voyager, Photon, Alexandrite, and Tesseract. They all seem quite similar to me. Which one would you recommend?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55547080

I’ve just found out that some Lemmy web interfaces let you sign in with multiple accounts and switch between them easily. Is there any client that can show notifications from all accounts at the same time, so I don’t need to switch back and forth?

I’ve checked out Voyager, Photon, Alexandrite, and Tesseract. They all seem quite similar to me. Which one would you recommend?