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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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[–] projectmoon@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Am I missing something? Or is the link to this tool not actually present in the post? I only see a screenshot.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I cannot find the link for the life of me either...(browsing on the original webui)

[–] stirante@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The link is in the post after the first sentence

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] stirante@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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/

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

When I try to follow while being logged in, it says ''Could not find community'' error.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Nope, wasn't there for me. Still isn't. The post was edited and the update haven't yet came through.

https://i.imgur.com/BRQ6AdB.png

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I don't see a link either, even when browsing the original post on the instance that you posted it to.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] stirante@sh.itjust.works 7 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.

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I very much appreciate the effort, but is there any reason I should use this instead of the pre-existing Lemmyverse.net?

[–] stirante@sh.itjust.works 12 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.

[–] stirante@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] OverfedRaccoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What's weird to me is I saw the edit (with the link) on this account, my main account on lemmy.world, when you first posted it, since I clearly followed the link to try it out. I don't know if all the DDoS stuff messed something up or the admins had to restore from an old backup or something, but that edit with the link isn't reflecting anymore on my lemmy.world account or my alt at lemm.ee.

[–] soullioness@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Federation is a bit weird sometimes. Edits, deletions, and mod actions don't always federate very quickly or even at all sometimes.

[–] Malice@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazily unsecure I guess (you write your password into an unknown site) but crazily cool, it's so hard finding communities!!

Cheers!

[–] stirante@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] floppy@rabbitea.rs 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Logins with 2FA aren't working, is it possible to fix?

[–] stirante@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] floppy@rabbitea.rs 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is exactly it. Though I think it can be worked around/automated. This tool did it: https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

[–] alex@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

This is super cool!

I don't think login works if you have 2FA, but not a huge problem :)

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Looks great, thank you for this!

[–] Cr4yfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Good idea! I'll incorporate something like this in my own Lemmy App.

[–] cassetti@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Loving the tool - but when i try to login and put in the instance of kbin.social it gives me an error

[–] stirante@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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