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I created a repo on GitHub that has a table comparing all the known lemmy instances

Why?

When I joined lemmy, I had to join a few different instances before I realized that:

  1. Some instances didn’t allow you to create new communities
  2. Some instances were setup with an allowlist so that you couldn’t subscribe/participate with communities on (most) other instances
  3. Some instances disabled important features like downvotes
  4. Some instances have profanity filters or don’t allow NSFW content

I couldn’t find an easy way to see how each instance was configured, so I used lemmy-stats-crawler and GitHub actions to discover all the Lemmy Instances, query their API, and dump the information into a data table for quick at-a-glance comparison.

I hope this helps others with a smooth migration to lemmy. Enjoy :)

  • Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev
    11·
    3 年前

    You’re awesome man! This is direly needed. I’m just wondering how on earth to publicize this before the madness that hits on Monday.

    Any chance you could find a place to fit this in the join lemmy site and do a pull request before then? I know it’s a lot to ask, but it would be huge.

    • maltfield@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      3 年前

      Instances aren’t added manually. They’re discovered using lemmy-stats-crawler.

      As long as your instance is federating, active, and the API is reachable then it will make it onto the list.

      Edit: It looks like your instance’s API isn’t reachable, which may be why it’s missing:

      Please fix the availability of your instance’s API.

    • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 年前

      About 300 active users every day

      Underselling it? 431 currently logged in at time of this comment and it hits 600 concurrently logged in at peak time basically every day. The statistic this repo uses is also:

      **Users ** The number of users that have been active on this instance this month

      By that metric I think Hexbear is still the largest lemmy instance. It would be the third on this list if you only count daily concurrent login peak.

        • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.ml
          3·
          3 年前

          I see, so it’s commenting accounts per hour. Would be interesting to see what the commenting accounts per month is to more accurately compare to this list. Although this list doesn’t make it clear whether they are using accounts that have commented or accounts that have simply participated via logging in and voting, I would personally include any voting account as “active”.

  • pyarra@vlemmy.net
    8·
    3 年前

    I also recently just created my instance vlemmy.net, I dont mind anyone joining and creating their community’s there. Dont really have any restrictions either. Would be nice to learn some new things from our internet friends

  • honk@feddit.de
    71·
    3 年前

    How do you check wether nsfw content is allowed?

    Because my instance (feddit.de) doesn‘t allow pornographic material. I guess that doesn‘t exclude all nsfw content. But the column header is called adult and it makes it seem like „adult content“ aka porn was allowed.

    *edit fixed typo

    • maltfield@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      3 年前

      It doesn’t say porn, it says adult. The legend describes how it’s determined

      Adult “Yes” means there’s no profanity filters or blocking of NSFW content. “No” means that there are profanity filters or NSFW content is not allowed.

    • maltfield@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      3 年前

      how do you do that? Is there a guide anywhere for how to setup mastodon seeing lemmy or lemmy seeing mastodon?

      • Claude Gohier@mastodon.xyz
        2·
        3 年前

        @maltfield
        You can follow users or communities from Mastodon.

        The magic of ActivityPub.

        Just search for the user or community’s url in mastodon, You can then follow from the result.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 年前

    It would be nice for those elsewhere on the fediverse to know when an instance is aligned with or run by the same people as an existing mastodon or other kind of instance.

    Pretty sure nothing conventional is exposed for that sort of information, but it could be useful in the future. Maybe a general description field that can contain that sort of information.

  • abraxas@lemmy.ml
    51·
    3 年前

    Shooting for this. It’s not beautiful but it’s not ugly:

    Gonna have to dance around the i8n library for this PR, but it shoudl be possible.

  • bouncing@partizle.com
    3·
    3 年前

    It would probably be useful, but harder to collect, a summary of:

    • Primary/intended topics or users (eg, tech, politics, regional, etc)
    • Any unusual moderation patterns
    • Most/least blocked
    • maltfield@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      3 年前

      Manually maintaining is not realistic.

      If your API is read-only and you’re blocking bot traffic from querying it, you’re doing it wrong. Please be nice to the bots. And also users that use VPNs, privacy plugins, etc. You’ll false-positive block them, and that’s not very nice.

      • _NetNomad @ DXC@forum.dxcomplex.com
        4·
        3 年前

        definitely agree. I don’t control our host’s policy but i will pass that along. some bot traffic is allowed- we were on the join-lemmy site two days ago and i have a bot running this very minute- i think they’re still just trying to dial in the right balance between two much and not enough security