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 :)

  • @maltfieldOP
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    11 months ago

    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
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      411 months 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.

      • @maltfieldOP
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        711 months ago

        Because I had a bug. Fixing now :)

        • KNova
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          311 months ago

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

            • KNova
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              311 months ago

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

              • @nutomicMA
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                511 months ago

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

                • KNova
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                  311 months ago

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