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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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[–] Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev 11 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.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Yes this sounds great.

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 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 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?

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 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.

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[–] Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

deadline is next monday lol

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year 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

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[–] poVoq 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh shit I wish I knew that existed before XD

[–] mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/

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[–] jbaber@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it autogenerated like this one?

[–] poVoq 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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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Great work! Thanks for making this. ❤

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 6 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 :)

[–] beto@lemmy.studio 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.

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because I had a bug. Fixing now :)

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 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.

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 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

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a pretty fresh instance (Saturday I think) so it might only be calculated once a week? idk

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It only counts users who posted or commented during that time.

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 3 points 1 year ago

Aha! I think I’m getting a lot of the “what’s this all about” crowd. Thanks for the clarification.

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[–] pyarra@vlemmy.net 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

[–] honk@feddit.de 7 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

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 4 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.

[–] MichaelAltfield@mastodon.social 6 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.

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 5 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.

[–] Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely better than what we have! More info is better

[–] claudegohier@mastodon.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year 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

[–] _NetNomad@forum.dxcomplex.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.com 4 points 1 year 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

[–] QuestioningEspecialy@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

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