- cross-posted to:
- lemmy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- lemmy@lemmy.ml
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:
- Some instances didn’t allow you to create new communities
- Some instances were setup with an
allowlist
so that you couldn’t subscribe/participate with communities on (most) other instances - Some instances disabled important features like downvotes
- 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 :)
@maltfield
It’s cool seeing this post in Mastodon.There is also a similar list on: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
oh shit I wish I knew that existed before XD
@maltfield So apparently I can interact with my Lemmy posts on my Mastodon account. Cool!
For anyone else trying to figure out how: I just took the URL of the Lemmy post (https://lemmy.ml/post/1168743) and pasted it into the Mastodon search field.
Users can create communities on Blahaj Lemmy. Most of our communities are created by users
Hmm, I see
community_creation_admin_only
is set tofalse
on the API. I’ll look into this, thanks for letting me know :)Edit: should be fixed now. Please let me know if you find any other issues :)
Same for lemmy.studio, I have community creation open for everyone. Not sure why it shows as false.
What’s the API endpoint? I’ll double toggle the option to see if it fixes it, maybe it is set to admin only even if the UI shows the opposite.
Because I had a bug. Fixing now :)
I wonder how the user account is calculated too. I think Dartboard Links (links.dartboard.social) has about 10 users now.
I’m literally just asking the instance’s API how many users it has:
Check the
users_active_month
field. How your instance calculates that is a question for the lemmy devs ;D
How about a spreadsheet release (on GitHub) so we can easily filter things out? 👀
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.
I see TypeScript and get scared. Personally, I do think that the join-lemmy.org/instances page should link to:
- My table comparison https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
- The Lemmy Community Browser (to find communities across all instances) https://browse.feddit.de/
- The Lemmy Map https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
- The federation’s lemmy page (with another table comparing instances) https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Can anyone with TypeScript experience make this PR for us? Here’s the relevant file:
You thinking just a <ul> with the 4 links in it and a header of some sort? Mock or description or anything?
I think at the top, just above the “Recommended” <h2> add:
For a more detailed comparison of Lemmy instances, see: <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances">Awesome-Lemmy-Instances on GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://the-federation.info/platform/73">the-federation.info Lemmy Instances Page</a></li> <li><a href="https://lemmymap.feddit.de/">Feddit's Lemmymap</a></li> </ul> After you create an account, you can find communites across all instances using <a href="https://browse.feddit.de/">Feddit's Lemmy Community Browser</a> <h2>Recommended</h2> ...
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