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

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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[–] 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    How does the directory discover communities? As, for instance, this community (!fediverse@lemmy.world) does not exist in the directory.

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  • [+] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Looks like it might be very helpful on a computer. I never do anything on a computer unless it's absolutely necessary. It might be in this case though. I'd like to check out the Acoustic Guitar community on ml and maybe find out more about bagel transcription.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    This is very useful and I’ve added a few communities from this already, so thank you.

    If you are taking feature requests, I would ask for the ability to filter out communities with zero posts, as it seems like some lemmys have gone nuts with creating communities that nobody is using yet.

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