OK y'all! http://tooter.today is live and ready to help your friends find places to toot from! It provides scored instances in an easy-to-use fashion for new users and helps onboard them to tinier instances. Please help me load-test it by boosting it across the fediverse! :)
Next to come is a nice home page with explanations of the fediverse!
Source and hopeful-roadmap available: http://github.com/wayspurrchen/tooter.today
@way awesome, thank you! One smol complain: I think link to the instance should open in a new tab
@way you should filter that down to only the ones that are open for registration. i got at least one private node from this
@KitRedgrave really! I did do that, but the update script is fairly slow (once per hour) so those must have closed recently (or instances.mastodon.xyz doesn't always get it right). I'll need to figure out a way to solve that. thank you for letting me know!
@way it could be that the description and flag didn't match on that end, so you got bad data to begin with
@way relative links from instance abouts are not linked corrcetly
@b Good catch, thank you!
@way Nice :thumbsup: I'd really like to see *slightly* more information about who is running each instance (e.g. Mastodon name, Github, Twitter, etc), but I guess that would be in the data from instances.mastodon.xyz
@ocean I want to add that stuff! will need to do some scraping for it though, I'm probably going to spin up an entire 'nother service to gather more data
@way Cool. Do you know the person behind instances.mastodon.xyz ?? It feels like it makes sense for that info to be added to there and then your service can pull it across. I'd be happy to help if you know of a Git repo.
@way It would be nice if a "search instances by country" feature will be available
@way Would be great if you could add a way to choose certain specifics like language or server location etc. Great tool !
@way Pay attention : a page that does it exists => http://mastodonportal.herokuapp.com/ (created by @antoineraulin)
@way Nice! But I get a 500 error when I'm at 94 and up: http://tooter.today/suggestions/94 :o
@way that's awesome !
@way feature request:
ability to see list of who the instance federates with
@way wow, super cool! nice work!
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