I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy
I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy
Hey, I made a simple webapp, that shows you a random community with basic stats, description and top 10 posts of all time from this community.
You can use it without logging in, but for automatic following, the login is required.
All data is stored in your browser and code is open source.
Some info and issues of the app:
- I made it in a day, so bugs may and will happen
- It uses a json list of communities from browse.feddit.de
- It ignores all NSFW communities. I'm planning on adding a switch for that, but if you really want, you can change
nsfwFilterproperty in local storage through devtools.allis for everything,noneis for no NSFW andonlyis for only NSFW communities. - Sometimes it fails to follow a community. Maybe it's because community is not yet "synced" to the instance you logged in from. Don't know much about exact reason, because I'm new to lemmy from the tech side.
- There is also a planned feature to exclude whole instances. Currently only possible with editing local storage.
It's maybe an idea to filter out communities with less than 10 posts.
When I tried it, it gave me a community with 1 post and no comments (there's a lot of dead communities on lemmy, so you might need to do something to increase the chance of an interesting response)
Just pushed an update, that will hide all communities with less than 11 posts. I will make it configurable later.
To see changes, force refresh the site.
Thank you!
Am I missing something? Or is the link to this tool not actually present in the post? I only see a screenshot.
I cannot find the link for the life of me either...(browsing on the original webui)
The link is in the post after the first sentence
Where exactly? https://i.imgur.com/BRQ6AdB.png
I don't see a link either, even when browsing the original post on the instance that you posted it to.
Since for some people, the edit didn't work.
This is the link https://stirante.github.io/lemmy-discover/
Federation is a bit weird sometimes. Edits, deletions, and mod actions don't always federate very quickly or even at all sometimes.
I very much appreciate the effort, but is there any reason I should use this instead of the pre-existing Lemmyverse.net?
I wanted to focus a single community at once and make a sneak peak of it all which is some numbers, description and top 10 posts. This way it's less likely to accidentally skip some cool community. Also this shows you random ones and not some type of list so you're exposed to more niche ones.
Anyways I think lemmyverse is also cool, just a different approach to discovery of new communities.
Pretty good. It's kind of like Stumbleupon for Lemmy communities. The only "issue" I saw is it includes the forbidden no-no instances that are defederated by a lot of the bigger instances for being... troublesome.
I used the list from browse.feddit.de. I didn't know it includes defederated ones. I'll try to exclude these.
This is really nice; I second another person's opinion that it resembles a stumbleupon just for lemmy. Some kind of "Not Interested" button would be a good idea, though I don't know how feasible that is.
At any rate, it's a really cool tool, and I appreciate your having made it. I'm excited to see if/how it develops.
Would be cool if it blocked already subscribed communities, and also made those that aren't federated already on small instances to try and federate.
Looks great, thank you for this!
I think this was much needed, thanks! I used to use Random on Reddit to discover new subreddits.
Crazily unsecure I guess (you write your password into an unknown site) but crazily cool, it's so hard finding communities!!
Cheers!
The code is open source, the build process is open on GitHub actions and it's hosted on GitHub pages so you also see compiled site easily. The password never leaves your browser apart from going to the instance you chose when logging in. The password also is not saved, only the access token.
I tried my best at making it as transparent as possible.
This is really cool. I think why it won't let you subscribe sometimes is because the smaller subs aren't acknowledged by your signed in instance yet. You have to search from your signed in instance for that particular community, go to it, and then subscribe. Great tool though, thanks.
Yeah, this is exactly it. Though I think it can be worked around/automated. This tool did it: https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony
Looks neat I'll check it out. Would be cool if you could login and it would pull your subscribed communities and then come up with similar communities based on already subbed ones. Cheers.
I'd love to do that, but that would require me having info on all users' followed communities. Then I could cluster communities based on shared subscribed users and actually recommend communities. Basically if user A follows X, Y and Z, user B follows X, Y and Z and you follow X, then you might be interested in Y and Z.
Or some simple alternative would be to tag communities, but again someone would have to do it.
The Fediverse population seems generally quite hostile towards algorithms, but i would love something like that. Discoverability is a huge issue on Lemmy right now. Apart from searching on lemmyverse.net/communities, we basically only have !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
That's cool, thanks for it!
Loving the tool - but when i try to login and put in the instance of kbin.social it gives me an error
Sorry, I never tested it with Kevin. I suspect the API is somewhat different from lemmy
Even a simple kbin link would work.
For example since this community is "fediverse" on the lemmy.world instance my link would be
This is super cool!
I don't think login works if you have 2FA, but not a huge problem :)
I like the only NSFW option 😎
Bro betting the fap session
Thank you! Very cool tool
Good idea! I'll incorporate something like this in my own Lemmy App.
Too bad there's already a community search function.
