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 :)

  • smartwater0897@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Great work! Can you include the instance description in this list also?

    Also i would love to see country but that’s doesn’t seem to be included in the Lemmy app. I guess you could do a ip lookup on some service to see country if you really wanted to.

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    1 year 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.

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    1 year ago

    I’m a little bit confused by the federation thing. How would I let my instance talk to any other instance except the ones I blacklist?

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    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

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      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.

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      1 year ago

      how do you do that? Is there a guide anywhere for how to setup mastodon seeing lemmy or lemmy seeing mastodon?

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    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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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      1 year 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.

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        1 year ago

        hexbear is currently running an old version of lemmy that doesn’t support the v3 API or federation. migration to a more modern lemmy is in progress

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      About 300 active users every day

      Underselling it? 431 currently logged in at time of this comment and it hits 600 concurrently logged in at peak time basically every day. The statistic this repo uses is also:

      **Users ** The number of users that have been active on this instance this month

      By that metric I think Hexbear is still the largest lemmy instance. It would be the third on this list if you only count daily concurrent login peak.

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          I see, so it’s commenting accounts per hour. Would be interesting to see what the commenting accounts per month is to more accurately compare to this list. Although this list doesn’t make it clear whether they are using accounts that have commented or accounts that have simply participated via logging in and voting, I would personally include any voting account as “active”.

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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year 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.

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          1 year 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.