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Comparison of Lemmy Instances (github.com)
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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 :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Users can create communities on Blahaj Lemmy. Most of our communities are created by users

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because I had a bug. Fixing now :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm literally just asking the instance's API how many users it has:

Check the users_active_month field. How your instance calculates that is a question for the lemmy devs ;D