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:
- Some instances didn’t allow you to create new communities
- Some instances were setup with an
allowlistso that you couldn’t subscribe/participate with communities on (most) other instances - Some instances disabled important features like downvotes
- 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 :)
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.
I see TypeScript and get scared. Personally, I do think that the join-lemmy.org/instances page should link to:
Can anyone with TypeScript experience make this PR for us? Here’s the relevant file:
You thinking just a <ul> with the 4 links in it and a header of some sort? Mock or description or anything?
I think at the top, just above the “Recommended” <h2> add:
For a more detailed comparison of Lemmy instances, see: <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances">Awesome-Lemmy-Instances on GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://the-federation.info/platform/73">the-federation.info Lemmy Instances Page</a></li> <li><a href="https://lemmymap.feddit.de/">Feddit's Lemmymap</a></li> </ul> After you create an account, you can find communites across all instances using <a href="https://browse.feddit.de/">Feddit's Lemmy Community Browser</a> <h2>Recommended</h2> ...Not sure who the approved reviewers are.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-translations/pull/12 <-- translations PR, prerequisite of other PR
https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/158 <-- DRAFT PR. This one will need the translations folder updated after the translations PR is done. There might be a better way to do this, but I almost never work on submodules in this way.
That’s @[email protected]
Translation merged. Actual HTML in full PR. Once/if @[email protected] approves, we’ll be… Nevermind, he just approved it. He said it’ll be live in an hour or two.
There wasn’t really anything that resembled typescript changes ultimately. The submoduled translations were the only real time sink there.