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I tried to use this a couple of times, but had a difficult time choosing a community. They seemed to mostly appear the same, so I chose based on activity and u
by heroprotagonist 9y ago
I tried to use this a couple of times, but had a difficult time choosing a community. They seemed to mostly appear the same, so I chose based on activity and uptime. But apparently those instances were largely in languages I didn't understand. The "filter out these languages" improved it a bit, if I go through and check every box except english (slightly unintuitive, there, as most people will know few languages and want to select what they know instead of what they do not know) though not completely. It seems to work better with 'local' than with 'federated' results, which can mean cutting you off from the global community if you limit yourself to local.
I wouldn't mind seeing a guide to various popular communities to choose what to pick.
- mintplant 9y agoSomething like https://instances.social https://instances.social?
- heroprotagonist 9y agoThat's pretty nice. I remember using it before, but maybe my selections were better this time. Thanks! Though, if you filter for 'English' it still gives second result with description "Une instance francaise...' Also, I found a solution for the language issue, by adding a regex filter: .*[^\u0000-\u007F].* It may be over-filtering a little, I am not sure. But better to filter too much than not enough, I guess.
- liguafranc 9y agoI chose English. The top five it found for me were: 1. Chinese 2. German 3. Looks English, except for the word "astronomie" 4. French 5. English