Coming in late here, but your best starting point I think is to find someone that has published a list of known federated lemmy servers, or build your own.

• I think there’s an API endpoint (IDK if you have to be an authenticated user to access) that lists which servers a particular server is federated to
• Use that to query all the servers in that list at the same endpoint, deduplicate, and repeat to build a graph of the fediverse.
• From there you can use a different API endpoint to query which servers are open vs. closed registration
• Then you can ping each server to find that latency, but that’s not the whole picture.
  • some servers are starved for resources, or on an older version of software that is less optimized, so there may be a way to use the API to navigate to random posts and capture the time it takes that to complete; probably a more useful metric.
  • Might also be a good idea to get a metric for the number of users on that server too, as that might sway your opinion one way or the other.
• There might be an endpoint to query the number of banned users, but I don’t recall seeing it.

IDK if you’re interested in doing that work, but I don’t think anyone has published tooling so far that you can run on your desktop to get that performance info. There’s Python libraries already out there for interacting with the Lemmy API, so that’s a good jumping off point.

Edit: Now that I’m thinking about it, that could be a pretty useful for the main website(s). They can use those type of queries on the backend to help with suggestions for new user onboarding.

I’ve noticed the issue too, you’re not alone. I’ve also noticed a similar bug in the main feed where if I have an image post expanded, if I upvote it, it will collapse back to the small state.

Awesome, thanks for opening up a ticket! I see there have been a few other issues covering the problems I’ve noticed. Hopefully the author has enough time to give them some attention.

Yeah seems to be a pretty interesting piece of software, but I’m not sure that it’s really ready for general usage at this point. I love the potential though, and it seems to be in active development, so I’ll be keeping an eye on this project for sure.

Ah, wasn’t aware. Just went with release binary for a quick test. I may be missing something, but on 1.0.3 it doesn’t seem like filtering by “forum” works correctly. Are you seeing the same issue?

Just downloaded a new build and it seems to be working now. Very cool concept, but seems pretty bare-bones. Let me know what you think if you end up giving it a try.

Have you trued running this yet OP? Someone posted about neonmodem a few days ago and I tried it but met with errors, as did they.

In Lemmy, you weirdly need the ! in front when searching it to find it

This hasn’t been my experience on Lemmy. I’m regularly able to use for example [email protected] or https://madeup.server/c/anime_tiddies in the search bar and it resolves it both ways. Sometimes you need to wait a few seconds for it to populate though.

Saved. Thanks OP! Hopefully the future revisions of this gist wont require as much “how to get around these UX problems” and have more “This is just different than what you’re used to, here’s how to do it”. I’m very hopeful that will be the case.

Oh they’ll still mostly be fake, but with the current FCC admin I don’t expect the same level of fuckery like we saw with ahshítpie