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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 :)

  • KNova
    3•2 years ago

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

      • KNova
        3•2 years ago

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

          • KNova
            3•2 years ago

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