Am I missing something? Or is the link to this tool not actually present in the post? I only see a screenshot.
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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
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/
Nope, wasn't there for me. Still isn't. The post was edited and the update haven't yet came through.
Actually, I can't find it either, which means that probably no one else in the commenters actually tried it ha ha
I don't see a link either, even when browsing the original post on the instance that you posted it to.
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!
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.
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 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 [email protected]
I think this was much needed, thanks! I used to use Random on Reddit to discover new subreddits.
Looks great, thank you for this!
Thank you! Very cool tool
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.
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.
Logins with 2FA aren't working, is it possible to fix?
Just added TOTP support in https://github.com/stirante/lemmy-discover/commit/e590c6a5cff366060e3fb6202031442b8bfe7fc8
Thanks, can now log in! Which brings me to the next problem - if I hit "follow" I just get a "community not found" error. Can you trigger a search for the community if it isn't found?
Can you add TOTP support?
Just added TOTP support in https://github.com/stirante/lemmy-discover/commit/e590c6a5cff366060e3fb6202031442b8bfe7fc8
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
Good idea! I'll incorporate something like this in my own Lemmy App.
This is super cool!
I don't think login works if you have 2FA, but not a huge problem :)
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
Sorry, I never tested it with Kevin.
I can't believe you'd do that to Kevin.
Ugh damn autocorrect