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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 :)

    • abraxas@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.