Awesome Federated Instances — updated comparison tables for Lemmy & PieFed
12d 18h ago by piefed.zip/u/MindfulMaverick in fediverse@piefed.social from git.disroot.org
I vibed a bot that regularly crawls fediverse.observer + each instance's API and generates comparison tables so you can actually compare instances side-by-side instead of guessing.
What's in the tables:
- Registration status (closed? open? admin-only?)
- Downvotes & NSFW enabled/disabled
- Monthly active users, uptime, software version
Two platforms:
- Lemmy instances — 520 instances
- PieFed instances — 83 instances
Data auto-updates every 6 hours. This is a fork/rewrite of maltfield's awesome-lemmy-instances (Rust -> Python), with PieFed support and federation-block data added.
FYI, fediverse-observer is missing some instances (ex. Piefed.zip).
Thanks for the api/v3/site. It gives much more data than the nodeinfo/2.1 I was using for my posts.
Edit: Your "Recommended Instances" are interesting... Nothing wrong with them, but I wouldn't send a random person to some of them (ex. Pawb.Social).