Small instances is the best way to enjoy the fediverse. You get to sit on the sidelines, laugh at the losers that get caught in defederation drama while remaining able to access every community on every instance.
I'm not saying that you should necessarily move here, there's plenty of other instances out there. Howeeeeeever... ;)
Yeah I just saw it. Good God, apparently people really enjoyed playing with it.
Thank you for spreading the word on the tool I built, appreciate it! :)
Update: I've finished writing that part and have already deployed it. Thank you for the feedback.
Lmao. This is the kind of drama I built this for, let's have a look at everyone's dirty laundry :)
Update: apparently kbin doesn't support this kind of operation. In other words there's no way of knowing what instances a kbin instance is federated with. I'm sorry but this really isn't my fault. I'll see if I can add it later on, once the kbin devs finish working on this feature.
Thank you. Actually that list is a bit hard to interact with, but I've found this API and it works great. I'll be adding kbin support in the next couple days.
Yeah sorry about that, I couldn't find a list of instances that also included kbin ones. The best I could find was the awesome-lemmy-instances repo, which as the name suggests is strictly Lemmy.
If you have a list that includes kbin I'll be happy to add support for it.
Sure, I could do that. The only reason why I didn't was because that info is just one click away, it's really easy to see that from an instance's web page (while it isn't so easy to see the rest of the data I am displaying).
Good to know. Feel free to use that if you prefer it, the only reason why I made this was because I wasn't aware of the existence any other similar tool.
For some reason when I query programming.dev, as well as a couple other instances from my Vercel deployement I get 403s "Forbidden" errors. Not really sure why, it works when I run it from localhost? Maybe them or their provider have somehow blocked request from Vercel because they are afraid of bots? It's anyone's guess really.
This site is built on top of the lemmy-js-client, which is maintained by the Lemmy developers, unfortunately there isn't any API documentation to look at, so for those times when the JS client doesn't work it's very hard for me to debug it and troubleshoot it.
BTW you can look at these errors yourself in your browser's "network" tab, all errors return 500s. In the request body you can see the queried URL, in the response you can see the error message. Sometimes it's "Forbidden", some other time it's a timeout (possibly due to the instance being offline or severely overloaded).
Yeah I updated my original post on lemmy.world. People used it so much that they exceeded the monthly bandwith limit of 100GB. I'm working on moving it to another host and optimizing the bandwith usage.