commit ae1630c43b66d73e5927dbf3a49babe676bc519f
from: Oliver Lowe <o@olowe.co>
date: Fri Jul 18 09:06:21 2025 UTC

lemmyverse: delete

fediverse doesn't really work well enough

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--- README
+++ README
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ The following commands are provided:
 - hits - count web traffic
 - hlsget - download the contents of a HLS playlist
 - jsfmt - format javascript source code
-- lemmyverse - find lemmy communities
 - llm - chat with a remote large language model
 - precis - summarise text
 - rfc - read IETF RFC documents
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--- bin/lemmyverse
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@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-usage='usage: lemmyverse pattern'
-if test $# -ne 1
-then
-	echo $usage
-	exit 2
-fi
-
-cachedir=$HOME/.cache/lemmyverse
-if test -n "$XDG_CACHE_HOME"
-then
-	cachedir=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/lemmyverse
-fi
-mkdir -p $cachedir
-
-# thousands of spam/bot communities at lemmy.world?
-# badnames='enoweiooe'
-
-cd $cachedir
-if ! test -f communities
-then
-	curl --compressed https://lemmyverse.net/data/community.full.json | \
-		tr ',' '\n' | \
-		tr -d '"{}[]' | \
-		grep -E  '(^baseurl)|(^name)|(^desc)' > communities
-fi
-
-awk -F :  '
-$1 == "baseurl" { instance = $2 }
-$1 == "name" { name = $2 }
-$1 == "desc" { desc = $2 }
-NR % 3 == 0 { printf "%s@%s\t%s\n", name, instance, desc }' communities | sort | grep "$@"
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--- man/lemmyverse.1
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@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-.Dd
-.Dt LEMMYVERSE 1
-.Sh NAME
-.Nm lemmyverse
-.Nd find lemmy communities
-.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm
-.Ar pattern
-.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm
-finds Lemmy communities indexed by
-.Pa lemmyverse.net
-using the given regular expression as interpreted by
-.Xr grep 1 .
-Both the names and descriptions of the communities are searched.
-.Pp
-On first run, a local community database must be generated.
-The full community index is downloaded from
-.Pa https://lemmyverse.net
-using
-.Xr curl 1 ,
-transformed,
-then stored in the user cache directory.
-To regenerate the database,
-remove the file and run
-.Nm
-again.
-.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Pa communities
-Community database from lemmyverse.net.
-.El
-.Sh ENVIRONMENT
-.Nm
-uses the following environment variables:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Ev XDG_CACHE_DIR
-The directory to store the community database.
-If unset,
-.Pa $HOME/.cache/lemmyverse
-is used.
-.El
-.Sh EXAMPLES
-Find communities for the Plan 9 operating system:
-.Dl lemmyverse '(plan9)|(Plan 9)'
-.Pp
-List all communities from the instance lemmy.sdf.org:
-.Dl lemmyverse '@lemmy.sdf.org'
-.Sh EXIT STATUS
-.Ex
-.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr grep 1 ,
-.Xr curl 1 ,
-.Lk https://lemmyverse.net