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I made a lemmy community directory (fstab.sh)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wasn't sure how to find the communities I'm interested in, so I quickly hacked together a scraper that makes a list of all the communities(1) of all the servers mine is federating to(2).

You can find it (with a very trivial UI) at directory.fstab.sh. Hover over the link to see the description. Use the search bar to search by text.

Is this something useful or there was a better way to do the same?

(1) it does its best to scrape them all but incidents might happen
(2) updated nightly

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does the directory discover communities? As, for instance, this community ([email protected]) does not exist in the directory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one was on page 3 of lemmy.world, heh. Rolling out the update that tries to scrape all pages proper right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Allright. Good luck 😉