Hi everyone,
The awesome-lemmy-instances repo (https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances) has been a great resource for comparing Lemmy instances, but it looks like it hasn’t been updated in about 2 years.
I’m trying to find current information across the whole Threadiverse (Lemmy, PieFed, and Mbin).
Does anyone know of a maintained alternative or a similar comparison table that includes:
- Current Monthly Active Users (MAU)
- Open registrations
- Downvotes enabled/disabled
Thanks!
Edit: https://git.disroot.org/hirrolot19/awesome-federated-instances
The Fediverse Observer would be one place to start, for MAUs and whether currently accepting sign-ups or not. I don’t know how to find upvotes enabled or open registrations without checking each one individually.
Piefed.zip for Piefed features ( https://join.piefed.social/features/ )
Lemmy.zip for people who prefer Lemmy
@mindfulmaverick@piefed.zip, I assumed that you did but in case you did not know, also check out https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser as a great place to compare Piefed instances (although @blaze@quokk.au, I noticed that Piefed.zip neither appears in any of the multiple Piefed instance pickers that I looked at, nor does any other instance appear in its own listing at https://piefed.zip/auth/instance_chooser - so something seems wrong there?).
There is no real equivalent to that Piefed instance picker for Lemmy or Mbin although https://join-lemmy.org/instances comes closest in spirit - except that the “random” sorting will show either lemmy.ml or hexbear.net something like 90% of the time, despite them being the #4 and #6 highest MAU instances with <2k MAUs each, and if it lies about even what a “random instance” is then I don’t put much trust in what else it may attempt to convey as well. Those descriptions also seem… incomplete as well, in terms of characterizing what goes on at each instance.
