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/instances
For example, the instances my own instance, SDF, federates with and blocks.
Sweet thanks!!
Is that for admins only? Or can I see lemmy.ca's info?
It's public: https://lemmy.ca/instances
ohhh. old.lemmy doesnt work fyi
It's a standard public Lemmy feature.
I use old.lemmy
I would assume not. It works for me
it just doesnt work on old.lemmy
What's old.lemmy?
(Ps. Your username is very clever ๐)
type old. in front of your lemmy address.
It makes lemmy look like reddit used to back in the day. This is actually a relatively new feature apparently... and clearly not at 100% functionality.
@[email protected], @[email protected]
We run a few different frontends to give people choice over how they view the site. The site lemmy.ca has one main backend where all the data is stored and managed, and then a few different frontends that connect to it. Only the default frontend is made by the same developers as the lemmy backend, so it tends to be the most stable and up to date with features, and that's the one we have set for when you just type in lemmy.ca
You can check out the other frontends with the following links:
- old.lemmy.ca (Mlmym)
- voyager.lemmy.ca (Voyager)
- photon.lemmy.ca (Photon)
- alex.lemmy.ca (Alexandrite)
- tess.lemmy.ca (Tesseract)
In the case of this post, you can find the list of instances while using the default frontend by going to this page: https://lemmy.ca/instances
This information will be true regardless of which frontend you are using to use the site. old.lemmy.ca might also display that information on some other page, but I'm not as familiar with it personally. I use the Photon interface sometimes, and that one displays it here: https://photon.lemmy.ca/instances
We have some guides about all this on our website if you want to see a comparison of the frontends: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/alternative-uis
Happy to clarify further on anything!
This is actually a relatively new feature
Naw, the MLMYM frontend (old.lemmy) has been around since the Reddit APIcalypse.
Oh? Weird I totally thought I read a ~3 month old post announcing it.
I don't recall it being a thing back then but I must have been mistaken. Part of the reason I never migrated was how similar lemmy was to redesigned reddit.
I donโt recall it being a thing back then
Here's where lemmy.world announced their implementation of it (2023-07-21): https://lemmy.ca/post/1839017?sort=Top
I totally thought I read a ~3 month old post announcing it
I know it was forked/transferred to a new dev team recently. Perhaps that is what you read?
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