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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.devEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    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.mlOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      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.mlEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

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

        • maltfield@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          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>
...
      • Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.devEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        abraxas said he was a typescript vet just earlier, maybe we can coax him into having a look? xD

        Worth a shot at least.

        EDIT: Just shot him a message

        • abraxas@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          Unfortunately I also have very little free time. If you’re not in a hurry and nobody does it before me, I can take a look. Wish I could set a reminder in Lemme. Anyone code the remindme bot yet? LOL.

          !remindme 1 week

          EDIT: Well shit, yes the deadline for a lot of things is next monday isn’t it. Lemme see if I can squeeze in a little time tomorrow morning or evening, if one of my jobs isn’t overwhelmingly crazy, I might be able to. It’s just adding a few links in the “Lemmy Servers” body text? Any UI standard?

          I’m a TS vet, but green on lemmy UI design.

            • abraxas@lemmy.mlEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              Updated my original message. If I can make time, I need a little more precise info about what/where on the links. It looks like a short enough PR as long as I know exactly what the links should look like

      • smartwater0897@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        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.

  • pyarra@vlemmy.netEnglish
    8·
    2 years 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

  • honk@feddit.deEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    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.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      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.

  • abraxas@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • bouncing@partizle.comEnglish
    2·
    2 years 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
  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    It says i can’t downvote on beehaw , but going to this (beehaw community post) and downvoting workds.

    • amiuhle@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Does this mean that Beehaw users can’t downvote on any other instances whereas users from other instances can downvote Beehaw content?

      • awdsns@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I read that they just ignore incoming downvotes, so on Beehaw you’d never see them, only locally on the instance where you voted.

        • amiuhle@feddit.deEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          That would be the proper way to implement this, but I can confirm that I’m able to downvote Beehaw content from this instance, it shows my downvote and the vote count decrements by one. Maybe it’s just a caching thing.

          • awdsns@feddit.deEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            I have the impression that the federation thing as a whole still has some issues. Like I checked some of my submissions on different instances and it would sometimes show different comment counts, but the comment which would explain the difference was nowhere to be seen. So it wouldn’t surprise me if vote (non-)propagation also doesn’t always work as intended.

  • _NetNomad@forum.dxcomplex.comEnglish
    31·
    2 years ago

    are manual additions allowed? our host’s security blocks some bot traffic and is currently not playing nicely with the stats crawler

    • maltfield@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      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@forum.dxcomplex.comEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        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