Idea: Fediverse community/"subreddit" explorer (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by mmaramara@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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A problem many have realized is that there are many /tech, /gaming etc. communities in different instances/servers. There is already https://fediverse.observer/ , so I think it wouldn't be too hard to make a service that periodically roams the fediverse, checks for example the last 100,000 submissions of each (or top 100 active servers or something) server/instance, and gets info on all the communities/subs involved. Users could search communities, and if they write "gaming" they would get a list of all the active /gaming communities and info about them: subscriping users, total submissions, instance location (geographical) etc.

This could be used to find suitable /gaming communities for your needs.

A desireable future feature for both kbin and Lemmy would be to find and subscribe to multiple communities with the same name from the fediverse, and manage them to a single feed if the user so desires.

Ideas, thoughts?

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[-] kaupas24@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Check out https://sub.rehab

[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is sick

[-] Brkdncr@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think you’re right to be looking and I hope the idea of browsing other instances becomes more native and intuitive.

[-] box464@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

What I’m looking for is lists or collections that I can create or the admin of the instance creates that combines common topics into a digest of subs. Then I just browse one digest on a topic rather than having to go through each separately.

Having Kbin and Lemmy instances use a common catalog of topic identifiers so they can be easily coalesced would be helpful, too.

[-] Little8Lost@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

You mean this? https://browse.feddit.de/

[-] leaskovski@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Is that just Lemmy instances or is it doing the whole fediverse?

[-] Mechanize@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure, but I think https://lemmyverse.net/ is basically what you are talking about.

It lists both communities and instances.

this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023

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