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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 :)

  • 7heoEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    One lack I see with your GH repo is the classification of “Adult” instances. Instead of “Yes” and “No”, it should be listing what kind of Adult content is allowed. Namely “Porn” (for profit, industrial content), “OC” (Original Content, or User Submitted), “Hentai” (including subgenres), etc.

    I’m bringing this up, due to the sheer amount of instances aimed at “barely-legal” (or even completely illegal) content on the fediverse. I personally do not want to see this content, but I might be interested in the rest. And I sure ain’t going to check every single instance just to know (and I don’t have a mental eraser handy either).