I made a lemmy community directory (fstab.sh)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by farcaller@fstab.sh to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I wasn't sure how to find the communities I'm interested in, so I quickly hacked together a scraper that makes a list of all the communities(1) of all the servers mine is federating to(2).

You can find it (with a very trivial UI) at directory.fstab.sh. Hover over the link to see the description. Use the search bar to search by text.

Is this something useful or there was a better way to do the same?

(1) it does its best to scrape them all but incidents might happen
(2) updated nightly

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[-] farcaller@fstab.sh 2 points 3 years ago

I could add another screen to show the description on the phone, I guess. It renders and works fine from the phone, but, obviously, the descriptions are lacking.