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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 :)

  • CARC0SA@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    hexbear.net isn’t on your list

    New users can register accounts without an application

    Users cannot create communities

    It is not federated and as such fully siloed

    There are slur filters and NSFW content is not allowed

    Downvotes are disabled

    About 300 active users every day

    • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • CARC0SA@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Based on data from August 2022 api survey of active users, with active being a user that has commented or posted that hour. with the qualification it will be lower than the user count displayed on the page which are users logged in.

        active user count per hour

        • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          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”.

          • CARC0SA@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            Yeah that makes sense, we will be able to get more up to date information after the relaunch

    • maltfield@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years 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.

      • Cadende@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 years 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