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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[–] Noit@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is very useful and I’ve added a few communities from this already, so thank you.

If you are taking feature requests, I would ask for the ability to filter out communities with zero posts, as it seems like some lemmys have gone nuts with creating communities that nobody is using yet.

[–] farcaller@fstab.sh 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not quite sure if the 'subscriber' count includes federated subscriptions. Does anyone know?