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I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by stirante@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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 nsfwFilter property in local storage through devtools. all is for everything, none is for no NSFW and only is 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.

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[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I very much appreciate the effort, but is there any reason I should use this instead of the pre-existing Lemmyverse.net?

[-] stirante@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

I wanted to focus a single community at once and make a sneak peak of it all which is some numbers, description and top 10 posts. This way it's less likely to accidentally skip some cool community. Also this shows you random ones and not some type of list so you're exposed to more niche ones.

Anyways I think lemmyverse is also cool, just a different approach to discovery of new communities.