• jaykrown@lemmy.worldOP
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      I think it will, another reason I built this, because new people coming to matrix will need a way to browse rooms more easily.

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    This is very cool. Have you uncovered any hidden gems with it yet (eg genuinely active nice communities, etc). My brief experience with matrix left me feeling that either a) either all of the activity on matrix was for matrix-related things, or b) it was just impossible to actually find active communities.

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      Yea I have, and that’s exactly why I created this. Finding them without this tool would have been really annoying. Here’s a screenshot of the top 12h rooms:

      Right now they are pretty diverse. The two most active I recommend starting off in if you’re English speaking are #envs_lounge:matrix.org and #anime:matrix.org

      This is the one I made https://matrix.to/#/#all-topics:matrix.org before I created the activity tracker and realized there were several others.

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        So there is nothing about like niche hobbies on there? Like gourmet mushroom cultivation, or brewing I take it?

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      The biggest problem I’ve noticed is that the amount of “Members” is displayed in clients, but so many rooms have a lot of “Members” but no real activity. Which is what this tracker attempts to solve by looking at actual chat messages and timestamps.

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    I’ve never explored the Matrix. Reddit use to be the only ‘social media’ type outlet that I frequented, and now Lemmy. Total Accounts: 2,222,678. That seems significant.