Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?
Blaze@feddit.org 2 days agoThere used to be this, but most of the instances give errors nowadays:
defed.xyz/check?name=Lemmy.ml&software=lemmy
This one seems to work: fba.ryona.agency/?reverse=Lemmy.ml
At least the latter one is just showing which instances the named instance has defederated from, not which instances have defederated from the named instance.
That’s easy to get by checking /instances on a given instance already.
The problem is that you’d need some kind of spider that crawls all of the instances to get the reverse of that.
The former one does seem to show it.
At least the latter one is just showing which instances the named instance has defederated from, not which instances have defederated from the named instance.
It does, it is reverse search.
What you are talking about is the first search on that tool, this is the last one.
Neither of those mention that lemmy.cafe has defederated from lemmy.ml. Hence I tend to agree that they are not reliable, at least in the sense of being comprehensive. Perhaps at one point in the past they were.
Ah, thanks, yeah. And given that that lists a lot more instances than does the defed.xyz site, my guess is that defed.xyz is incomplete.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Oh yeah that’s the one