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For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to [email protected].

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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Great work! Thanks for making this. ❤

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

oh shit I wish I knew that existed before XD

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it autogenerated like this one?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, it uses a standard called NodeInfo2 that many Fediverse projects and XMPP / Matrix etc. expose.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yes this sounds great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 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:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because I had a bug. Fixing now :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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
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