I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

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.

I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

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.

I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Ugh damn autocorrect

I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I never tested it with Kevin. I suspect the API is somewhat different from lemmy

I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Since for some people, the edit didn't work.

This is the link https://stirante.github.io/lemmy-discover/

I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Probably the edit somehow didn't work for you (I forgot to post the link initially, but added it after like 2 minutes).

The link is https://stirante.github.io/lemmy-discover/

I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I just pushed an update. If you log in, it will fetch defederated instances from your instance as well as communities you already follow and hide them.

I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I used the list from browse.feddit.de. I didn't know it includes defederated ones. I'll try to exclude these.

I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

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.

I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy by stirante in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

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.

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I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by stirante@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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:

  1. I made it in a day, so bugs may and will happen
  2. It uses a json list of communities from browse.feddit.de
  3. It ignores all NSFW communities. I'm planning on adding a switch for that, but if you really want, you can change nsfwFilter property in local storage through devtools. all is for everything, none is for no NSFW and only is for only NSFW communities.
  4. 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.
  5. There is also a planned feature to exclude whole instances. Currently only possible with editing local storage.

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