Cool!
Cans has source? I’ve been hacking on a per-instance community scraper (that pulls a list of communities from the community directory page) for !lemmy411[email protected], in an attempt to have a regularly published community list, but I’m a bit bogged.
I’m kinda dissapointed in Randall on this one. The science behind this is actually pretty simple.
As weird and magical as it seems. :)
I know something like 28 thousand active daily users!
Yeah, I’m only seeing plumbing and homeimprovement subs. :)
And a lot of people posting “hey, what happened to <sub>?”. Like… have you been living on the sun the past two weeks?
You’re missing the precursors:
Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot… :)
The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
Naw, because sometimes it works and sometimes it don’t. I think lemmy.ml is just getting slammed right now.
Try it with a community from a different instance.
Its federating to lemmy.ca now. : https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]
I just had to bash the search form a few times. Intra-instance community discovery/seraching seems to be a bit “sticky” for lack of a better way to describe.
Also, as the “prime” instance lemmy.ml is getting hammered with new Reddit exodus users at the moment, so I suspect lemmy.ml may not be the most responsive atm.
I also find that sometimes the search takes… a while?
So by wow you’re talking about the world of warcraft community @ lemmy.ml?
Took a bit of futzing in the search screen but I see it:
Well that begs the question then - if communities are “homed” on instances (although the same community can exist on two different homes as completely separate communities) and then get “subscribed” or federated to other instances through searching, how does one know what all communities exist? Short of going to, or scraping the /Communities page of each Lemmy or Kbin instance, how does one know whats available?
Clearly we need a Lemmy411 Community. :)
Be the change you want to see in the world: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmy411 TADA!
I think mebbe that’s what OP is missing. A new (empty) instance doesn’t know anything about what other communities exist. @[email protected] you gotta search for the communities before your instance will start snarfing posts.
Hrmm. Lets see. I’ve sub’d to @[email protected] from my mastodon account. If this works, I should see THIS comment show up in my feed.
yeah there was some inbound federation struggles with lemmy.ca the past few days, those might still be persisting. its where I’m homed, it works great from the inside! :)