Aha, I am doing the exact same thing π https://lemmyverse.net
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It looks really good! When I saw it on my feed my first response was βoh shoot someone beat meβ π
Hehe they do look quite similar so great minds right π I had the same thourght when I saw yours! I'll add a link to yours to the list on my about page if you want π
that would be great, i'll make sure you add yours as well π
Excuse me, this is a capitalist society. Please compete to the death
I wanna give both of you props for your work on these. It's pretty cool to see the community jump on things like this. I've been half considering an attempt to whip up an android app just for a personalized experience, but I'm worried I'll be too ambitions lol
Potentially dumb question, but I've seen lots of people linking to this website:
What's new/different about https://browse.toast.ooo or https://lemmyverse.net?
Is it because they also show instances, not just communities? Or is it more just a hobby project (nothing wrong with that, I'm π― on board with building things for the sheer enjoyment of it - even if it's already a 'solved' problem)
I can only speak for myself, but I started work on mine since the Feddit one is fixed wide mode and the searching/filtering is less than ideal, I wanted to be able to see more details. Feddit one doesn't show instance stats iirc. There are also other lists, but I didn't find any of them super user-friendly.... If Lemmy is gonna succeed Reddit there needs to be some super friendly tools to assist community discovery.
For me these two community browsers linked here are a little more usable then the browse.feddit.de version (I am on desktop). Everyone is just trying to help grow the community in whatever way they can, and redundancies and choices never hurt. There is talks of each instance hosting a community browser over on the github issues, so this likely will be implemented in some form for each server as well.
For both of you, wouldn't it be nice to let me add my home instance so you could provide quick links to subscribe (and open the community in my home instance).
Cool!
Cans has source? I've been hacking on a per-instance community scraper (that pulls a list of communities from the community directory page) for !lemmy411[email protected], in an attempt to have a regularly published community list, but I'm a bit bogged.
Iβm probably going to put the source up shortly but how I decided to find communities is by scraping my instances βfederated withβ list from https://toast.ooo/api/v3/site
Then going through the /.well-known/nodeinfo -> /nodeinfo/v2.0.json (or whatever url the well-known gives) to check the software to make sure itβs a Lemmy instance
Then using the Lemmy rest API to paginate through the open communities for that instance
I have links to the source for my crawler (written in nodejs with redis task queuing) on https://lemmyverse.net (GitHub link top right) π€ It's a bit messy at the moment but has all the community crawling stuff.
How are you adding instances? I have a few communities I'd love to have listed.
In my other comment I described how I find communities but with this alpha I have a set list of instances to use
Are your communities listed on your current instance (lemmy.ko4abp.com)? I can add that to the temporary list if youβd like
They are! I would like that and I will be involved with your project if you decide to take the source public!
Thanks for sharing !
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