why must everything fall apart now.. windows is shit and has to go yet different linux devs are going crazy too apparently. And on top of that android is going to shit and has to go too and there are most likely similar problems with alternative phone operating systems too.

I wish I could just become a luddite and not use any advanced tech at all..

I always do "open a support ticket" but can't tell if that accomplishes anything.

Yeah given how corrupted the Supreme Court has become, I can see why they would hold off on that.

Hm... definitely don't automatically do anything with ponder.cat going forward, this instance is just on the verge of shutting down because the .cat registrar caught me not being Catalan. I'm a little surprised it hasn't already happened.

So what the !communities@ponder.cat bot does is, more or less, just grab https://data.lemmyverse.net/data/community.full.json, sort by (MAU / number of subscribers), and then make a post of the highest-rated community with at least 100 subscribers that hasn't already been posted.

I don't see !nolawns@slrpnk.net in that Lemmyverse list and I have no useful input for you as to why that might be... maybe something to do with Anubis? Is lemmyverse maybe trying to fetch the main page and crawl the .js instead of grabbing the list of communities from the API, something like that, so that it can't update slrpnk anymore now? I have no idea.

I appreciate the advice. I’m not quite grasping what !communities@ponder.cat does. It says it /reads/ from the lemmyverse DB. I wonder if it can solve the problem I write about here.

My experience from !communities@ponder.cat:

• MAU divided by total subscribed users, I found to be quite a good metric. It prioritizes new communities (maybe a little bit too much at the expense of more established communities, for your purposes) and requires them to have recent activity. The only flaw is that one post that blows up in an otherwise quiet community can spike that metric way way up for the whole month, but maybe that’s fine.
• I think crawling every node once a week or something, making a small handful of queries to get all the community counts, is probably more than fine.
• Yeah that stddev sounds too high, maybe look at a plot and check the math