Are there instances that run modified versions of the base Lemmy software? For example, that use their own sorting algorithms, or provide users ways to block instances or specific users, etc?
Are there communities that talk about this kind of thing? Like a LemmyForInstanceOwners community? I don’t really want to trawl through GitHub for this sort of discussion.
Lemmynsfw uses a custom version that that removes the blur for nsfw images but that’s it I think.
The instances that have been developing custom features (IIRC lemm.ee and a couple others) have been contributing them back into the main Lemmy project, so everyone else ends up eventually getting them.
Edit: I’ve seen a community for instance owners and devs somewhere but don’t remember the name, hopefully someone else remembers
Yes, Hexbear is highly customized. Beehaw is o believe. Not sure what else
The NSFW instances use a modified front end to allow for automatic picture expansion (and probably other things).