Be the change you want to see in the world, that's what mom always used to say. So here's a list of all the Local communities from the top 13 Lemmy instances by user count as per https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
For now its just a copy+paste from the communities listing page of each instance https://lemmy.ca/communities/listing_type/Local/page/1 ... I think today's programming challenge might be a script to scrape that and in the future we'll poke at Lemmy's API to see if we can't snarf a community list automagically. (if you have any ideas let me know)
edit: changed from dropbox to google drive. Let me know if there are viewing problems - other than having to go to (ugh) google drive.
edit2: permissions, ugh. Should be universally accessible now.
8 Comments
troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
I'm assuming this list is ballooning in the last few days. Do you have any revision history? Maybe number of communities over time?
tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
I'm sure it is. I spent my Sunday working on a script to scrape the community directories directly from an instance's community listing but got bogged down in HTML parsing regex hell. If I don't make progress by Saturday Ill manually compile another list. Best I can do atm.
tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
Well - just saw THIS https://lemmyverse.net/communities drop (and stickied) it. wow.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
Yeah, that's very cool. I like that they link to the community directly on each instance, but also give you a fast copy/paste option to copy !community@server.tld so you can find it on your own instance quickly.
Evkob@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
It says access denied when I try to access it, would it be possible to paste the list to pastebin or something similar?
tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
oh my godness Im so embarrassed. Try now.
Evkob@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
It works now! I've pasted it to Privatebin for anyone who wishes to avoid Google services :)
tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
awesome, thanks!