"Lemmy Explorer" a new website to explore Lemmy communities and instances

you know what I really wish, some easier way to be able to subscribe to a community on a remote instance from your own account. Like a shared login or some browser extension that sees you're on a lemmy and allows you to subscribe from your account back home

maybe I'm using it wrong, but right now If I'm browsing lemmy explorer and find a community on lemmy.ca, I have to copy the address manually and then go back and find it on my local lemmy where I have my account to add it

What you're describing is one of the root issues with the current system. It's the same reason that if your instance goes down, your account and history go with it. I'd love to see an implementation of some sort of account awareness like you said, which could also make it easier to backup history to another instance in the event that your primary goes down.
- Oh this would be nice, a standardized way to back up instances so in the case of one going down forever someone else could pick it up and start running.
  
  I know I'm happy to run my instance, I have a great fiber line and a solid infrastructure, but if I get hit by a bus tomorrow I'd want someone else to pick it up and get running
- It's the main reason for mastodon feeling so off. Subbing to a community is something I can deal with, but having a network where you need to follow individuals and the way of doing it is cumbersome sucks. All of these places would benefit greatly if there was a solution.
- I'd be interested in something like a lightweight CDN/replication with OAuth2 for logging into other instances. Each instance 'replicates' your original account but isn't itself the master. One can be promoted to master in the event of an outage effectively migrating your account.
  
  Would make for some difficult security considerations given a rogue instance could attempt to hijack authority.
I'm not much of a programmer and my free time is too limited to move quickly, but the functionality looks possible based on the published frontend API. Someone will almost certainly beat me to it, but I am hoping to write a browser extension that replaces the blue "You are not logged in..." boilerplate text about how to subscribe to a remote community with a subscribe button that does the dirty work in the background for you.
- that would be amazing! even just like a hover popup or secondary link to send me to the community but through my instance would help a lot
Use this!
- Thanks, just what I was looking for!
You can do exactly that. Use the search function at the top of Beehaw, specifically type in the URL of the community like this: !ttrpgs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This way you'll reach that community while still "on" Beehaw and can subscribe to it. From there, you can head to your subscribed communities from your profile to make new posts or whatever.
- I don't think you understood what I was suggesting.
  
  Use the search function at the top of Beehaw
  
  I don't use Beehaw (my instance is lemm.ee), but let's pretend I do. My whole premise is I don't always start there. Like if run into a community on Lemmy Explorer or some other site (maybe a google search?), I can easily find myself on a community on a remote server.
  
  For example, can you click here: https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions
  
  What do you see? Any way to subscribe for you? It just tells you to go back home and search for it I would love there to be a browser extension or plugin that automatically recognizes the community's instance and address and sends it back home to Beehaw for you to subscribe. Can be via API or just redirect you to Beehaw's view of it

This is great! Feature request... Can you add this functionality to allow people to sub tho these communities easy. It's what I'm doing in a little javascript that has helped me tremendously!

Set a homeInstance type variable (ie; https://lemmy.ml) - manually inputted or select from found instances?
Add a button that links to "homeInstance + "/search/q/!" + community + "@" + site + "/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1""
- site is remoteinstance.whatever

That will take someone straight to being able to sub from their instance.

looks like OP is not one of the devs of this site. You should forward this idea to the github page that is linked there, as it's a great idea.

This is huge. Now take this data and tag each community with the closest subreddit and use the api to build a thing where you can plug your reddit user and Lemmy user to recreate your reddit account on Lemmy

🤯

To be fair, browse.feddit.de already did this
- Is there one that combines Lemmy and kbin communities?
- For some reason, browse.feddit.de only caches our Episodes community, but lemmyverse.net caches our entire instance. 🤔

650 servers?? they were just a bunch when I joined a week ago, that's a crazy growth!

p.s thanks for crossposting, site is very useful

Really well done! Much better to browse than browse.feddit.de I just wish you could "login" and hide the communities you're already subscribed to :p

Same, browse.feddit.de is not listing the latest communities. Whereas Lemmy Explorer (https://lemmyverse.net) is way better.
That one was missing a bunch of instances and communities for some reason, too. I'm glad we've got this new way to look at everything.

Wow. As a newcomer trying to make the leap over from Reddit, that’s really nice

Blows my mind that a good chunk of this just didn't exist a month or two ago

This is great! Anything to make Lemmy adoption simpler and easier for newcomers.

I personally don't understand what's wrong with communities tab, it seems to give a pretty similar list to this when you apply filters looking for the most popular of all communities.

If no one in my instance has subscribed or looked for a community, I won't be able to find it with the search unless I have its address.
I find this really useful for small instances that don’t have a large communities tab.

How is the instances list created? I just created my own instance last night and it's already in that list. Are all federated instances automatically listed?

I think it can be some sort of BFS/DFS method to find all instances.
- Yeah, I'd guess the same. I wonder how well that'd scale as the number of instances grows larger and larger...

Sweetest cherry pie!

Great resource.

Not sure if it is just me or is the problem on my work laptop, but Firefox is giving me a "Potential Security Risk Ahead" warning when trying to access the link.

Firefox isn't giving me that warning on my desktop, at least. Do you have HTTPS-Only mode on in Firefox security settings, maybe? I used to have that on, but it gave me false security risk errors all the time for some reason (no idea why) for a lot of websites. Especially it'd tell me a site didn't allow a secure connection/https, but then if I bypassed it and went to the site anyway, sure enough the url would actually show https and the little secure connection lock symbol, so as far as I can tell https is actually working fine.

If you're on a public network though I suppose interception is also a risk, when you're logging into things.
- Thanks, I'll check that tomorrow!

Very nice

This is extremely useful. I wanted to post a story about China but didn't know where until this post showed up. With this I get an overview over the instances which have China related Communities and they are sorted by users/posts/comments. This is amazing! Thanks for sharing it!

Oh and I checked it and my single user instance is there too :D

What does the exclamation mark do e.g. in this?

!news@beehaw.org

From my understanding, it's an indicator that differentiates Lemmy links from email addresses.

If you follow the link conventions, !technology@beehaw.org should link to a Lemmy community, rather than open a new email compose window.
- Do you know if it is normal that Jerboa crashes when trying to open Lemmy links? I assume on desktop it works correctly, but I haven't used it as much.
- Whould be nice to have a similar syntax that links that community as reflected in the current user's current instance.

This is awesome! I love seeing the whole community here like this!

There is so much Lemmy to go around. Cross posting this explorer for finding communities.

This is actually awesome. Thanks so much for this! It can definitely help bridge the gap a bit between traditional Rexxit paradigms and Fediverse ones.

the click to copy feature is neat

I love this!! Thanks for the link.

This is awesome!

Oh thanks, it was very useful :D

This looks like a great resource! However, I'm having trouble subscribing to some lemmy communities on kbin. I tried copying the community name into the kbin magazine search but nothing is found. Do I just need to wait for federation issues to be fixed or is there something I need to do to "push" communication between different instances?
(Edit: I didn't even realize at first that this post is on beehaw. Looks like I still have some work to do getting acclimated to the fediverse.)

On Kbin if the community you want isn't showing in the magazine list, what you need to do is go to the search bar that searches the whole site and type in the Lemmy community name followed by an @ followed by the instance name. For example: firefox@lemmy.ml

After searching it should come up and you can subscribe to it. It only shows up in the magazines list once someone on the instance subscribes to it, so if you are the first to subscribe to it you have to do a manual search first
- It worked! Thank you so much!
  I didn't realize that searches for outside communities need to be done in the general search bar and not in the magazine search.

Did the crawler break? Seems like it hasn't updated in a while.

Brilliant!

Dope!