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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 :)

    • Lenins2ndCatEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      Only wish we knew what the definition of “active” being used was more clearly.

        • Lenins2ndCatEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          I mean in this git. “Active” is at the entire discretion of the person that made this list and is not quite fully defined.

          • Cadendee [they/them]English
            1•11 months ago

            AFAIK they are using the same metric as the lemmy crawler, which just calls the site API endpoint and grabs the users/month number which is visible in the sidebar. And the code for that is public