Assuming you’re continuing to develop this, maybe try displaying it like a bubble graph with posting frequency being the bubble size, and having nodes show all of the community names inside the largest bubbles at a particular zoom level.

Allowing the user to sort the data based on different criteria would be useful too, and links between nodes showing size of shared userbase might be interesting although you couldn’t show the connection between all nodes at once. One quality of life feature that would be great is pinch to zoom in/out rather than the current selection zoom.

Would be great if eventually users could subscribe to communities directly through this as an interface.

Keep up the good work! Thanks for considering my idea!

Are they clustered based on shared userbase?

This is cool, keep adding more features. Not sure if my comment wishing this existed inspired you but nice to see a proof of concept!

I’m not on Bluesky, what downsides are you seeing in their app?

I was picturing a graphical map with circles for the communities at different sizes for the amount of traffic. It could be based on proximity for how much overlap there was in user posts and comments, and also by category, color the circles by instance maybe too? Like make it waaay more visible and accessible than Reddit. Somebody must have the chops to make something like that here, right?

If votes became truly public, what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made? Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.

I really hope a solution is found and if Lemmy goes the way of truly public votes, it would probably turn this into a nonparticipatory medium for me, I’d still read posts but not vote or comment.

Edit: also, most casual Lemmy users aren’t aware of public votes and would be upset that it already works this way, and only particularly invested or curious users are even reading this thread.

I think most users assume votes are private and most will have a similar reaction to learning about this unintuitive negative feature of anything built on ActivityPub, including Lemmy.

Baked in visibility of votes and blocking that only works one way makes Lemmy (and anything based on ActivityPub) less functional from an end user standpoint. Wish I knew a decent, somewhat popular alternative that implemented these features

US and UK flights are grounded because of the issue, banks, media and some businesses not fully functioning. Likely we’ll see more effects as the day goes on.

So, hey, can someone explain to me about Linux Mint, like since it is derivative of Ubuntu does that mean that the new system of having to pay for Ubuntu updates is inherited by Mint?

I’d love to see this implemented, a lot of non-English communities I’d like to read if they would autotranslate.