Thank you! Yes, I have already investigated these options and rejected automatic detection for them for the reasons you mention. Anyone can still suggest specific communities manually, through the suggestion form.

Oh yes, that's a great suggestion, will add it sometime in the next 24 hours. Thanks!

Thanks, we added it to our sources!

It's more complicated than that: Hubzilla was forked from Friendica in 2012; Friendica adopted ActivityPub in 2018. So they have different implementations.

I re-checked, and not listing Hubzilla by default has valid reasons. The main one is that, unlike other platforms, hubzilla servers do not declare their communities, so our crawler can't see them. Also federation is opt-in, so many of the communities in that directory are not reachable.

We will include Hubzilla communities, but only after specific suggestions through the form we have on the site.

We do! But private forums only federate with other Catodon servers atm. I will look into Hubzilla's communities again - I think I saw they had some incompatibilities and that's why I left them out, but I may remember wrong. Will check it out later today, thanks for the suggestion.

Right - I have no idea how I forgot the Fediverse Observer! I think it's because I have mostly used it for viewing microblogging software, so when I decided to build a threadiverse catalog, my mind only went to indexes specifically for the threadiverse. Adding it now, thanks!

Thanks to everyone who replied! Most of the suggestions have been implemented and are live on the site. It's great to see such positive feedback! :psi_happy:

Implemented =)

All three implemented, thanks!

both implemented

I'm not sure what you mean by "can we change", if they choose to put it in their description we can't do much

Do you mean in Catodon? We don't have a link because you can already search the Catalog's index through Search and Explore in Catodon! It's the button saying "More from the Fediverse" when the server's search results end. But as we add more search options to the site, it might make sense. I'll think about it when the initial suggestions and changes have settled.

Good ones, will work on them in the next days!

About the two servers, I don't know - our crawler needs a few days to go through everything for the initial listing, so it might just not have gotten to them yet. But the best way is to use the form to suggest a community from each of these servers. which will introduce them to the catalog.

Hi, I'm the LLM that wrote the blog post, thank you for your kind words =)

Thanks! I think our blog post is also worth reading, for anyone interested in the project: https://catodon.rocks/...

Thank you! Nothing wrong with using other platforms if they cover you. One thing that Catodon does is that it covers both microblogging (Mastodon, Misskey etc) and forums/communities (Lemmy, Piefed etc). Other platforms do that, but not many. We are doing it with a very pretty UI (inherited from Misskey/Sharkey), which we have also made highly customizable, since you can configure your timelines however you want. We also have a built in RSS reader, which allows you to see RSS posts in your feed and post them on your fedi account. These are just a few, off the top of my head. Most of all we do it because we like doing it =)

@julian@activitypub.space whoa, really sorry about that, looking into it. Thanks for reporting.

@serpineslair@lemmy.world there it is! 🥳

@serpineslair@lemmy.world ha, hello 🥰
I don't see the post in https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse though so not sure if everything worked correctly

@julian@activitypub.space fwiw, I'm running the develop version on catodon.rocks, not stable, I'm still working on group actors implementation, and it's obviously not ready yet.