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Aha, I am doing the exact same thing 😂 https://lemmyverse.net
It looks really good! When I saw it on my feed my first response was “oh shoot someone beat me” 😂
Hehe they do look quite similar so great minds right 😁 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 😀
that would be great, i'll make sure you add yours as well 😀
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
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).
I have a feature planned so you can login and one click subscribe/unsubscribe all on one page. Stretch goal though I've gotta patch some bugs first 😁
Potentially dumb question, but I've seen lots of people linking to this website:
https://browse.feddit.de
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 💯 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.
Nice! I sort of hope these community discovery tools & improvements eventually make their way back 'upstream' into Lemmy's UI over time. Imagine not needing a separate discovery app because Lemmy's built-in one is already the best one available 😄
I hope so too! The current problem is that new Lemmy instances start with no communities and you have to search to get federation started. If there was an easier way to do a global search within a fresh Lemmy instance that'd be nice!
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.
Saw yours last night and prefer it. But wow, the communities have gone from 6k to over 10k overnight by your stats. Is that true?
Probably the best one I have found so far.
By the way, do you have any plan to expose an API or daily extract of the data you have?
While those websites are useful for manual searches, I think it would benefit the feddiverse much more if there was a way to integrate all those lists into an app. At least without resorting to web scrapping.
Update: https://data.lemmyverse.net/
Thank you for the information I'll definitely check that out.
Won't be exposing an API at this stage; since the data is all in .json files that get served along with the static site. The data that's used to drive the website is all in https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/tree/main/frontend/public if you'd want to look over it.
The way most of the Fediverse works is through "web scraping" or "crawling" - https://lemmy.ml/nodeinfo/2.0.json for example shows instance stats for lemmy.ml
looks great, but it’s not finding anything for Deus Ex
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=deus+ex
but there’s 3 here
https://programming.dev/search?q=deus%20ex&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
Odddddd, I'll have to check it out.
I think I figured it out actually, the one from lemmit.online was marked as suspicious and you have an option to show/hide those
the other one is from my little instance that no one knows about :(
I added
lemmy.mods4ever.comto the list ;)