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Comparison of Lemmy Instances (github.com)
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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 :)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yes this sounds great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I see TypeScript and get scared. Personally, I do think that the join-lemmy.org/instances page should link to:

  1. My table comparison https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
  2. The Lemmy Community Browser (to find communities across all instances) https://browse.feddit.de/
  3. The Lemmy Map https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
  4. The federation's lemmy page (with another table comparing instances) https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Can anyone with TypeScript experience make this PR for us? Here's the relevant file:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You thinking just a with the 4 links in it and a header of some sort? Mock or description or anything?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think at the top, just above the "Recommended" 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>
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not sure who the approved reviewers are

That's @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Awesome, thank you! 🚀

I see these changes, but I don't understand how the i18n stuff works

Where's the file/commit for the actual text stored for instance_comparison and instance_browser?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Took me a little while, too. The i18n stuff is all in the translations repo (which is why I needed to PR that one, too and first). You won't find it anywhere in the active repo (I think this is a flaw, and the joinlemmy translation stuff at least should be in the same repo. But the idea makes sense to not repeat translations that show up in other projects)

On build-run, the translation process runs, which seems to "guess" any lines in non-english that it discovers. I didn't dig too deeply, but it wasn't immediately obvious how it knew to check English for the originals, only that English has no retranslation tool attached to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, thanks. I see the i18n text changes were here:

18n is probably good, but it does really make it harder for folks to collaborate. It totally stopped me from contributing. Thank you for your help <3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. It's super-important to have, and nothing is simpler for what it does, but that doesn't make it simple itself.

Of course, trying to translate in-flight with English HTML would be worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

abraxas said he was a typescript vet just earlier, maybe we can coax him into having a look? xD

Worth a shot at least.

EDIT: Just shot him a message

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately I also have very little free time. If you're not in a hurry and nobody does it before me, I can take a look. Wish I could set a reminder in Lemme. Anyone code the remindme bot yet? LOL.

!remindme 1 week

EDIT: Well shit, yes the deadline for a lot of things is next monday isn't it. Lemme see if I can squeeze in a little time tomorrow morning or evening, if one of my jobs isn't overwhelmingly crazy, I might be able to. It's just adding a few links in the "Lemmy Servers" body text? Any UI standard?

I'm a TS vet, but green on lemmy UI design.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

deadline is next monday lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Updated my original message. If I can make time, I need a little more precise info about what/where on the links. It looks like a short enough PR as long as I know exactly what the links should look like

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's better with less choices for beginners actually. I remember a lot of people didn't get started on mastadon because they were afraid to pick an instance.

It's almost so it would be good if this could just be a checkbox "pick a good instance for me" and it would pick a medium populated instance from the list.