2023-06-10-Lemmyverse.community.directory-06-10.txt
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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.

  • Evkob
    2·
    2 years ago

    It says access denied when I try to access it, would it be possible to paste the list to pastebin or something similar?

  • Troy
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m assuming this list is ballooning in the last few days. Do you have any revision history? Maybe number of communities over time?

    • tezoatlipocaOPM
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Troy
        2·
        2 years ago

        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 [email protected] so you can find it on your own instance quickly.