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.
Since for some people, the edit didn’t work.
This is the link https://stirante.github.io/lemmy-discover/
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.
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.
I honestly don’t know how it should be. I’ll leave that up to you. I wasn’t logged in when I was going through communities. So that might be a way to filter them out easily - if you can pull a list of blocked instances from users’ home instances once they log in.
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.
That was quick! Logged in and went through a few skips. Not seeing anything worth noting, which is a good thing. I appreciate that it also pulls from smaller instances I’ve never even heard of.
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
Even a simple kbin link would work.
For example since this community is “fediverse” on the lemmy.world instance my link would be
I like the only NSFW option 😎
Bro betting the fap session
That’s cool, thanks for it!
Thank you! Very cool tool
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.
Good idea! I’ll incorporate something like this in my own Lemmy App.
Too bad there’s already a community search function.
