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 :)
I wonder how the user account is calculated too. I think Dartboard Links (links.dartboard.social) has about 10 users now.
I’m literally just asking the instance’s API how many users it has:
Check the
users_active_monthfield. How your instance calculates that is a question for the lemmy devs ;DI’m a pretty fresh instance (Saturday I think) so it might only be calculated once a week? idk
It only counts users who posted or commented during that time.
Aha! I think I’m getting a lot of the “what’s this all about” crowd. Thanks for the clarification.