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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 :)

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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Users can create communities on Blahaj Lemmy. Most of our communities are created by users

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hmm, I see community_creation_admin_only is set to false 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 :)

[–] beto@lemmy.studio 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because I had a bug. Fixing now :)

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder how the user account is calculated too. I think Dartboard Links (links.dartboard.social) has about 10 users now.

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

I see TypeScript and get scared. Personally, I do think that the join-lemmy.org/instances page should link to:

  1. My table comparison https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
  2. The Lemmy Community Browser (to find communities across all instances) https://browse.feddit.de/
  3. The Lemmy Map https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
  4. 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:

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You thinking just a with the 4 links in it and a header of some sort? Mock or description or anything?

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think at the top, just above the "Recommended" 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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[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not sure who the approved reviewers are.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-translations/pull/12 <-- translations PR, prerequisite of other PR

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/158 <-- DRAFT PR. This one will need the translations folder updated after the translations PR is done. There might be a better way to do this, but I almost never work on submodules in this way.

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not sure who the approved reviewers are

That's @nutomic@lemmy.ml

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Translation merged. Actual HTML in full PR. Once/if @nutomic@lemmy.ml approves, we'll be.... Nevermind, he just approved it. He said it'll be live in an hour or two.

There wasn't really anything that resembled typescript changes ultimately. The submoduled translations were the only real time sink there.

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[–] smartwater0897@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it's better with less choices for beginners actually. I remember a lot of people didn't get started on mastadon because they were afraid to pick an instance.

It's almost so it would be good if this could just be a checkbox "pick a good instance for me" and it would pick a medium populated instance from the list.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)
[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

oh shit I wish I knew that existed before XD

[–] mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've stumbled upon this site that seems to be similar?

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing! How did you find that one? Do you know who runs it? I really, really like that they have an uptime monitor.

[–] mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

I saw it somewhere on lemmy shortly after joining. I then left the tab open thinking it'd be useful but unfortunately lost the thread!

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 0 points 2 years ago

Was about to post the same hehe That website is pretty great, specially like the charts!

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This project seems not well maintained (see this), I suggest this as an alternative (click "all columns").

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[–] QuestioningEspecialy@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How about a spreadsheet release (on GitHub) so we can easily filter things out? 👀

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Shiit, it would be much easier for me to write it out to a CSV than to a damn markdown table. Thanks for the great suggestion :)

Edit: @QuestioningEspecialy@kbin.social the table is now available as a spreadsheet

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I think there are a few.

blahaj.zone

infosec.pub

pawbs is a furries thing on mastodon too I think

I wrote a small mastodon post with some links here: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/110506940921141037

[–] honk@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.ml 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] claudegohier@mastodon.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@maltfield
It's cool seeing this post in Mastodon.

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[–] MichaelAltfield@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@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.

[–] smartwater0897@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Great work! Can you include the instance description in this list also?

Also i would love to see country but that's doesn't seem to be included in the Lemmy app. I guess you could do a ip lookup on some service to see country if you really wanted to.

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I think the description would be too long and clutter the table. I'd be down for descriptions on-hover, but I'd have to switch platforms (from GitHub markdown) for that afaik.

You can also get the country from this list. I don't know how they do it (maybe IP lookup)

  • https://https//the-federation.info/platform/73
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Great work! Thanks for making this. ❤

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev 0 points 2 years ago

Definitely better than what we have! More info is better

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