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I keep see people complaining about not being able to find active communities that match their interests. So I've added a new feature to https://www.search-lemmy.com/ that allows you to search posts for a particular topic and then it tells you which communities have the most posts matching your search query.

And assuming that you've set your home instance correctly, those links will even open up in your home instance, so that you can subscribe directly to them.

For example, if you search for 'linux' (https://www.search-lemmy.com/find-communities/results?query=linux&page=1) it gives you a link to each community, tells you which instance it's on and how many matches it found for your query.

All of the same filters that you can use on the normal search can be used here as well. So if you just want to find the best community that mentions linux on lemmy.world (https://www.search-lemmy.com/find-communities/results?query=linux+instance%3Alemmy.world&page=1), you can filter by just that instance. Click on the Search Tips button to see a list of all of the available filters.

P.S. I'm aware of https://lemmyverse.net/ etc... and while those are great as well, this allows you to search to see what people are actually talking about on the various communities.

Again, if you have any feature requests or find any bugs, PLEASE reach out or ideally go to my github (https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search) and log a bug there.

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[–] ljdawson@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Will be adding to sync. Cheers!

[–] demesisx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy hug of death?

[–] curiosityLynx@kglitch.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you add kbin.social, fedia.io and kglitch.social to the list of home instances? You'd just have to replace the /c/ in links to communities with /m/. This community is at https://kglitch.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world for me, for example.

I imagine making kbin instances searchable with your tool would require quite a bit more work.

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's on my to-do list. Sadly though, in order for something to show in the drop-down for home instances that means I must have previously crawled that site. Because my #1 requirement is that if you click a link it must open in your home instance. Good news is, is that Kbin and Lemmy work nearly identical to each other, so Kbin will be the first non-lemmy type of instances that you can search.

[–] curiosityLynx@kglitch.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. I guess I better have this working in 4 weeks. /jk

[–] curiosityLynx@kglitch.social 1 points 1 year ago

Just my first uninformed guess at how long you might take 😉

[–] fujiwara@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

This is wonderful! Thank you!