Wow. Stickied THAT to !lemmy411@lemmy.ca thanks!
Wow. Stickied THAT to !lemmy411@lemmy.ca thanks!
Cool!
Cans has source? I’ve been hacking on a per-instance community scraper (that pulls a list of communities from the community directory page) for !lemmy411!lemmy411@lemmy.ca, in an attempt to have a regularly published community list, but I’m a bit bogged.
sadly, it has returned. But the front page is garbage:
/r/whitepeopletwitter
/r/pizzadrivers
Disney Ad
/r/CleaningTips
/r/PeterExplainsthejoke
/r/funnyanimals
/r/whitepeopletwitter
Prime Video Ad
/r/whitepeopletwitter
/r/whitepeopletwitter
/r/shittytatoos
/r/plumbing
/r/legaladviceIndia
/r/whitepeopletwitter
/r/newcastle
Yeah, I’m only seeing plumbing and homeimprovement subs. :)
And a lot of people posting “hey, what happened to <sub>?”. Like… have you been living on the sun the past two weeks?
I just told this to my girlfriend and she answered it correctly, following with “dude, that joke is so old my grandfather used to tell us that in the bath.” so like this joke is 300 yrs old.
You’re missing the precursors:
Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot… :)
The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
/r/AskHistorians - ruthlessly and efficiently moderated, but every single post a fascinating read. I should msg Zukhov to see if he wants to move ship to /c/AskHistorians.
Naw, because sometimes it works and sometimes it don’t. I think lemmy.ml is just getting slammed right now.
Try it with a community from a different instance.
Its federating to lemmy.ca now. : https://lemmy.ca/c/wow@lemmy.ml
I just had to bash the search form a few times. Intra-instance community discovery/seraching seems to be a bit “sticky” for lack of a better way to describe.
Also, as the “prime” instance lemmy.ml is getting hammered with new Reddit exodus users at the moment, so I suspect lemmy.ml may not be the most responsive atm.
I also find that sometimes the search takes… a while?
So by wow you’re talking about the world of warcraft community @ lemmy.ml?
Took a bit of futzing in the search screen but I see it:
Well that begs the question then - if communities are “homed” on instances (although the same community can exist on two different homes as completely separate communities) and then get “subscribed” or federated to other instances through searching, how does one know what all communities exist? Short of going to, or scraping the /Communities page of each Lemmy or Kbin instance, how does one know whats available?
Clearly we need a Lemmy411 Community. :)
Be the change you want to see in the world: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmy411 TADA!
I think mebbe that’s what OP is missing. A new (empty) instance doesn’t know anything about what other communities exist. @slashzero@lemmy.ml you gotta search for the communities before your instance will start snarfing posts.
Hrmm. Lets see. I’ve sub’d to @lemmy_support@lemmy.ml from my mastodon account. If this works, I should see THIS comment show up in my feed.
I’m waiting to see what happens; they’ve announced the API screw-over of the 3rd party apps, but if the protests on the 12th+ blackout the site (you can’t bill advertisers if there ain’t no eyeballs) there might be some concession.
Look, Reddit hasn’t been profitable - yet. The VCs who dumped in 1.3Bn bucks want it back, and I don’t begrudge anyone for trying to make their own ham sandwich; we all gotta eat. My opinion is that the popular 3rd party app developers and API users should have been consulted and involved in the decision-making. And face it: apart from what we’ve paid to our favourite app developers we’ve received an awesome internet community for zero cost for over a decade (some of us anyway)!
How hard is it to go to the Apollo guy or the RiF folks and say: hey. we appreciate you making awesome apps. We need to start earning money. But you too need to make money. How can we work together, to maybe put a few more ads, or ad revenue generating “premium” features without screwing each other over, or our users?
So Ill wait to see what happens in the coming week and ride Reddit-is-Fun out to the bitter end and the lights go out and then probably delete my Reddit account then. But I’ve made the first steps. Im here ain’t I?
Oh, and put in a request now to get an archive of all your Reddit content. I suspect that department will be quite busy in the coming weeks. https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
Im eager to see what form it comes in. If my posts and comments come with some context around them then Im fine with just deleting my account. I hope the links are permalinks so the backreferences to REddit stay intact (AND, you don’t need the API to access, you could essentially “scrape” the context of your posts). I’ve been trying to find a way to search my own comments and posts for years (there are tools, but I want an OFFLINE archive of my stuff - I frequently find myself replying to someone and going hey wait Ive already answered this, now where did I put that comment…
yeah there was some inbound federation struggles with lemmy.ca the past few days, those might still be persisting. its where I’m homed, it works great from the inside! :)