SDF Chatter

My GitHub repo awesome-lemmy-instances (that provides a detailed table to quickly compare lemmy instances) now includes the number of months that the instance has been tracked in the MO field.

We're now limiting the "recommended instances" to just instances with MO >= 2 months.

• https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

Data is pulled from the Fediverse Observer API.

I was under the impression that Beehaw was a fairly established instance of Lemmy.

Did you all see that SDF Chatter is listed as the first recommended Lemmy instance in this popular Awesome List?

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See the features enabled in each instance and how many instances they block or are blocked by

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

• https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-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 :)