I’ve seen a few of these already, but since I already spent time working on it I thought I’d share mine also.
Right now it’s pretty basic, but that was the idea. I wanted a fast and light weight site kind of similar to old web directories. I’d like to add some advanced features like detecting hashtags in community descriptions. I also plan to build some automation around it to keep things updated and automatically discover new instances quickly.
Feedback is welcome. Hopefully someone finds this useful.
Some other similar projects I’m aware of are:
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Awesome, thanks for your work! Bookmarked.
Fast and light weight is great.
Feedback: I accidentally clicked on links. The clickable area of for example “Lemmy.world - lemmy.world” extends across the whole width, although most of it is apparently empty space. Either make the whole width look like a button or make the part unclickable which does not look clickable ;)
It would also be very practical to include discovery links, like [email protected]. The smaller the home instance of a user is, and the more niche the community they search, the higher the chance they must discover it first using this bang link.
To add to your list, here are other similar projects:
- https://browse.toast.ooo/communities
- https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances#all-lemmy-instances
- https://lemmy.directory/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/1
lemmy.directory seems to be down for a day or so. It’s a regular lemmy instance dedicated to subscribing to all communities in all instances, in order to replicate something like /r/all. Which means you can search from their site to find communities. If it’s up.
Thanks for the feedback! I’ll try to fix/add those things.
Noticed the page navigation URLs were wrong. They are fixed.