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awesome-lemmy-instances

Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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5Distinct people
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What it is

Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-06-09 07:57:56 UTC to 2023-11-16 16:09:43 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012023-06-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 52023-06-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-06-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-07-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 212023-08-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 13

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 52023-06-05 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-12 00:00:00 UTC110
Jun 122023-06-12 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-19 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 192023-06-19 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-26 00:00:00 UTC110
Jun 262023-06-26 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-03 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 32023-07-03 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 102023-07-10 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 172023-07-17 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 242023-07-24 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 312023-07-31 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 72023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 142023-08-14 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 212023-08-21 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 282023-08-28 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 42023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 112023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 182023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 252023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 22023-10-02 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 92023-10-09 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 162023-10-16 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 232023-10-23 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 302023-10-30 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 62023-11-06 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 132023-11-13 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-20 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

6 sources
photonthug·Jul 1, 2023
<rant> Not responding directly, just piggy-backing for lack of a better place to put this comment. The problem with Lemmy is that one gets sent to some place like https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances, is immediately confronted with a ton of weird links like "butts.international" and "badblocks.rocks", what even is this? And about 100000 other servers just named "lemmy", "notlemmy", and "lemmy1". So you click a few at random optimistically, then get hit with login page, or a server error, or an apparently empty test-server. You begin to think you're being pranked, like am I supposed to brute-force click like 50 things to find something that's not a joke? Maybe you go to https://join-lemmy.org/ and it says "After you create an account, you can find communities", so great, it's inaccessible anonymously, the same as twitter.
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You go to https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ and after 15m of page-loading get a hilariously useless cyberpunk-looking word-soup where you can't click any links, much less search for topics/communities (btw there are 2068431 running instances and somehow butts.international is still front and center in my cyberpunk view) Finally, by ignoring recommended tooling and just using google-search I found a community relevant to my interests, but it has pretty bad content and a whopping 1 user/day. Another google search trying to find a certain topic, I find one, but it has only 3 total comments, and I could not tell what month/year the posts were added. So, clearly I don't really know what I'm doing here, but this stuff is ridiculous. As long as we're crawling 2068431 instances why don't we look at the communities it hosts and the volume/recency of traffic? At least filter totally empty stuff and/or make it easier to get all the test instances in a sandbox! Discoverability is so bad that I can barely get to the point where I'm considering usability / content.
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