Suddenly my server started getting thousands of requests per minute and my varnish cache hit rate jumped to 99%. Thank god for varnish!

Looks like the reddit blackout is #1 on the frontpage of hackernews, and this article is #2.

• https://news.ycombinator.com/

I actually posted this article to hackernews, but I never got a single upvote. This isn’t my first time getting on the frontpage of hackernews, but it always happens when someone else reposts my link.

Can anyone tell me how the fuck hackernews’ algorithm works to where I can’t ever get traction but someone else does after me?

Added to the article. Thanks for the suggestion :)

You should ask in /c/mlemapp

• https://lemmy.ml/c/mlemapp

And if it’s a bug, please report it on GitHub

• https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem

Thanks! Yeah, I linked to it in the bottom of the article. There’s some other good links there that you may want to checkout as well :)

The only thing I need to improve this article is a short video demonstration showing how to find and add remote lemmy communities

• https://lemmy.ml/post/1193460

Are there any video producers on Lemmy that can help? You’ll easily get thousands unique views per day if you make a short “Guide to Lemmy” video :)

This list may help newcomers:

• https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

Honestly I’m not sure I’ll stick to lemmy if the amount of content doesn’t grow. And I’m sure I’m not alone. I’m here for news, and there’s very little coverage of world events on lemmy (though that has already noticeably improved as our userbase grows).

I do want lemmy to grow, but not for growth’s sake. I want it to grow so the content (news article submissions and quality comments about those articles) grows.

2. Downvotes are important to ensure quality content. It allows the community address statements made by a user based on objectively incorrect (mis)information. This feature is an important reason why many reddit users aren’t on Mastodon. Also, democracy is important.
3. Recommended Instances shouldn’t wholesale block content just because it’s NSFW. As you say, policy on what NSFW content is allowed is distinct from the instance enabling NSFW content.
4. People being able to create and moderate their own communities is positive

If an instance (eg Hexbear) wants to deviate from this, that’s fine. That’s what the Fediverse is all about :) But we shouldn’t recommend those instances to new users as it will cause new user attrition.

I think we should add the following criteria to instances at the VERY TOP that are recommended to new users:

1. The instances does not define an allowed list of instances
2. Downvotes are enabled
3. NSFW content is allowed
4. Users can create new communities

…otherwise new users (eg from reddit) are not going to use lemmy because it won’t match their expectations.

Personally, I was pretty disenchanted by my experience on lemmy when I first joined. I had to create accounts on like 5 different instances before I found one that worked (that’s why I created the comparison table of lemmy instances).

Most new users won’t have that perseverance. If, for example, they see there’s no downvotes on the “recommended” instance, they’ll probably give up and leave lemmy.

It doesn’t say porn, it says adult. The legend describes how it’s determined

Adult “Yes” means there’s no profanity filters or blocking of NSFW content. “No” means that there are profanity filters or NSFW content is not allowed.

Thanks for sharing! How did you find that one? Do you know who runs it? I really, really like that they have an uptime monitor.

how do you do that? Is there a guide anywhere for how to setup mastodon seeing lemmy or lemmy seeing mastodon?

I think the description would be too long and clutter the table. I’d be down for descriptions on-hover, but I’d have to switch platforms (from GitHub markdown) for that afaik.

You can also get the country from this list. I don’t know how they do it (maybe IP lookup)

• https://https//the-federation.info/platform/73

It’s documented here:

• https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/federation_getting_started.html

By default users on an instance will be able to talk with communities/users on all other instances. This only changes if the instance admin puts hosts in the allowed list or disables federation.

If you add instances to the blocked list then users will be able to talk with all other instances, except those on the blocked list

You mean like https://mastodon.world and https://lemmy.world? Do you have other examples?

Shiit, it would be much easier for me to write it out to a CSV than to a damn markdown table. Thanks for the great suggestion :)

Edit: @QuestioningEspecialy@kbin.social the table is now available as a spreadsheet

Not sure who the approved reviewers are

That’s @nutomic@lemmy.ml

I think at the top, just above the “Recommended” <h2> 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>
...

oh shit I wish I knew that existed before XD

I’m literally just asking the instance’s API how many users it has:

• https://links.dartboard.social/api/v3/site

Check the users_active_month field. How your instance calculates that is a question for the lemmy devs ;D