Lemmy411 - Don't know where to find what you're looking for?

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As with /r/411 this is where you ask what Community you're looking for but not finding. Perhaps a bit more helpful now that some communities are only found on certain instances.

Found/new community announcements - there are numerous "announcement type communities - see https://lemmy.ca/post/612532

There is also !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca

Before you request There are several resources available to find communities and resources and these have been pinned to the top.

there are community search engines at https://browse.feddit.de/ and https://lemmyverse.net/communities
there are numerous other "find a community" and "community announcement" .. communities (list stickied; if you find another, comment pls)
we will publish a Community Listing (at an as-of-yet-undetermined schedule)

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Please post a clear easy to understand request for a community (or instance!)
Pls no NSFW requests - if you want to create /c/NSFW411 go ahead.
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Please refrain from suggesting users should use search engines or directories.
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Lemmyverse Community Listing - 2023-06-10 (drive.google.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy411@lemmy.ca

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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.

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 points 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.

[–] tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well - just saw THIS https://lemmyverse.net/communities drop (and stickied) it. wow.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 points 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 !community@server.tld so you can find it on your own instance quickly.