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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 :)

  • amiuhle@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Does this mean that Beehaw users can’t downvote on any other instances whereas users from other instances can downvote Beehaw content?

    • awdsns@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I read that they just ignore incoming downvotes, so on Beehaw you’d never see them, only locally on the instance where you voted.

      • amiuhle@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        That would be the proper way to implement this, but I can confirm that I’m able to downvote Beehaw content from this instance, it shows my downvote and the vote count decrements by one. Maybe it’s just a caching thing.