Instance and Community Explorer for Lemmy
“iusearchlinux.fyi” is one of the greatest domain names ever.
This is really cool, but yeah I’m hoping that a similar directory will exist for kbin down the line. I noticed when using the magazine search function here that magazines local to the instance get listed first which is fine, but there’s no way to sort the threads/comments columns by highest to lowest. Sometimes you just want to be able to subscribe to one community/magazine which is the most active for a particular category and not clutter up your feed, even if those are on beehaw or lemmy.world.
How come all these browsers don’t work with kbin communities (magazines)? The feddit doesn’t show any of them, same as this one. And yeah I know it’s called “lemmy explorer” but still, with both being backed by AP and showing together on the feed, I’d assume a browser would work with both too.
There is no single list of every single ActivityPub Group (community, magazine) and there’s no way to make a 100% accurate list. Any software that tries is just estimating because they can’t know when a new instance is stood up until they’re told about it. They’re probably finding these instances by querying the API of known instances. For example, we know lemmy.ml exists so we can start there and find all instances it knows about. Then go to each of those instance, do the same query, dedupe the results, continue as long as you want. Since lemmy and kbin use separate APIs, most hobbyist focus is probably on one or the other rather than implementing two different APIs.
note: kbin and lemmy aren’t the only Group implementations. There’s also https://gup.pe, https://chirp.social, and something called lotide, though I’ve never seen that one in the wild.
This is awesome, this is basically exactly what I wanted when first joining.
It’d be real neat to see something like this that could pull in your current subscription data, so you could filter it down to only communities you aren’t currently subscribed to. It’s difficult to find new ones when you’re already subscribed to a bunch… see something that looks up your alley, search it up, and find you’re already subscribed, then repeat.
