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Piefed now has a built-in alternative to Lemmyverse to discover and search for active communities, with the "Active people" filter on the communities page (weekly basis) (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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To see it in action:

Crust.piefed.social (the Piefed development instance)

Not all instances implement it yet, I guess it depends how often they pull from the dev branch

Example of search for 'movies'

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Is this different to Lemmy's communities tab sorted by 'Top Week', which sorts by weekly active users?

IMO, the main advantage of Lemmyverse is the better text search and presentation.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    No it's not. It's just a way to sort by active weekly users, but you can mix and match by filtering with feeds which you can't do on Lemmy.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Lemmy's view does not allow to search and keep the data about active users, you immediately get into this view that doesn't show active users

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Indeed. You can also search a term and then sort by active users, or filter it by a feed. But I think there needs to be some UI cleanup on the feed drop down box as that is going to be really, really long as people on different instances make new feeds

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What would a Feed/multicomms' actively weekly users even be? An aggregate of all the comms weekly users, or just the highest one? Or does Piefed go through all the comms and collect the unique actors (God, that would be an expensive operation)?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The text search on Piefed is similar to Lemmyverse. Example for 'movies'

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You still don't see the number of weekly active users.

    On Piefed, it's the 'Active people' column, where you can see the numbers without having to go to each community. Lemmy (and Photon in this case) only show subscribers, which isn't an accurate metric as most of them are ghost accounts.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The active user counts are returned, suppose we just need a client that actually displays it.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago

    That could indeed be the case, but that's probably a low priority item for most of the client devs.

    I had been asking Rimu to add this feature for a while as Lemmyverse doesn't show Piefed communities on the community search, and as a lot of people use Lemmyverse to search for communities, Piefed communities are basically invisible.

    This solves it, if other clients want to implement it too, that would be nice of course

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