I made this website to crawl and display Lemmy instances since the existing ones were lacking certain filtering and search options.
I have licensed it as MIT and the code is on https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer
Let me know if there’s any issues, and create a GitHub issue if you want some features :D
Damn, this is real impressive! Nice work!
This is great work, thank you very much! I have already found a couple communities that I couldn’t see before.
Keep up the good work!!!
Great work! Actually wrote up a quick-and-dirty script to find and list top communities for me but this is quite sexy I’m gonna use this instead
Very slick, good work!
What’s the reasoning for “Hide no banner”? There are lots of great communities without a banner, and having that filter checked by default will make those communities invisible for most users.
Edit: one more suggestion would be to include uptime % in the instances list - that’s actually a super important detail for users looking for a home instance.
Thanks for the feedback! The reasoning for the banners thing was that the best communities should have one set, and there are a lot of communities, and the display looks better with them 😁
There was another comment on this, so I’m just deploying a change that will have it default to not hide them.
I could also definitely improve the layout for communities without a banner and instead show some additional details about them (longer description, languages, etc)
Regarding uptime, I don’t really want to have to monitor every instance, but as I’m looking to build a “Join an instance” page I will want to have this data, I may look to use a similar method to this one which uses https://api.fediverse.observer/
Now if there was a way to subscribed directly from the results, I’d say this should be core functionality. Amazing work 👏!
I have a backlog item for that feature 😉 I think it should be possible with the Lemmy websocket API! https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/5
