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Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities (europe.pub)
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The biggest surprise for me was the https://hexbear.net/ count, an instance I hardly interact with.

Community Count Community Subscriber Count
beehaw.org 6 133450
hexbear.net 33 663204
lemdro.id 1 17052
lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 15907
lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 53006
lemmy.ml 14 356460
lemmy.one 1 16257
lemmy.world 39 851950
lemmynsfw.com 2 33586
sh.itjust.works 1 16006
sopuli.xyz 1 14093

The data this is based on comes from https://lemmyverse.net/ where you can just download a full json of the data they have (I excluded all communities marked as "suspicious")

EDIT: The data if you sort by active users last month:

Community Count Community Active Month Count
awful.systems 1 2616
feddit.org 2 7363
feddit.uk 2 5289
hexbear.net 1 2952
lemdro.id 1 2898
lemm.ee 3 8898
lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 11422
lemmy.ca 3 14910
lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 13752
lemmy.ml 10 54949
lemmy.world 57 338384
lemmy.wtf 1 3602
lemmy.zip 3 12020
mander.xyz 1 11469
sh.itjust.works 5 37365
slrpnk.net 3 10897
sopuli.xyz 2 10070
ttrpg.network 1 4107

Community Count:

Community Users:

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I knew hexbear was big but not that big

[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

My guess is that they just needed to have their own community for a lot of stuff because so many instances are defederated from them. Though I am not sure...

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 1 points 10 months ago

I guess it's also natural that subcultures that tend to be banned elsewhere are early adaptors of alternative platforms.

We're lucky we didn't exist when the Trump extremists on Reddit went looking for a new home, or they would probably have been one of the biggest fields in this figure. Hopefully when the right wing extremists arrive instance admins will have the good sense to defederate.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Or because it's older than most of the other instances

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, Hexbear was there before the exodus. So that wouldn't make sense.

[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

Hexbear is older than most of the fediverse, and didn't have federation enabled for years. It's a very self-sufficient community.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

~~They have less than 500 MAU~~. It’s just a bunch of losers yelling at each other.

Correction, updated data is actually closer to 2k MAU. They are the 4th most active instance, topped by lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, and Lemmy.world.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I expected them to be much larger

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah I was surprised too, but if you go by MAU hexbear and Lemmy.Ml combined are just under 3k last I checked.

Lemm.ee alone has about that many, and Lemmy.world has many times that

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Based on Monthly active users, the picture is different: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

You already see a 4 sh.itjust.works community, a lemmy.ca community, a lemmy.zip community just from the top 30

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy.zip mentioned 🥳🥳🥳

[–] cat@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

we exist!!

[–] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Is there a way to create a pie like this but on an individual basis?

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I might as well leave lemmy.world

I'm only concerned about how to transfer all my stuff to the new account. Mastodon makes it super easy.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Idk if you can transfer likes comments and posts, but you can go to your old account from a new one and star everything with the new account pretty easily. So that at least can transfer.

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Active users is the standard metric used to check how much a service is used (at least as far as i know. its what i see when i look at stuff published for investors).

hexbar is on the sixth place in term of number of active users with 1.8K , lemmy.world is 18K (enable the "active users" column and sort by it to see the full list)

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Always nice to see lemmynsfw doing well. Those guys are going to bring a lot of people here

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

hi from thelemmy.club :D

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Hello!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OP, you know you don't have you use a table, right? You can make a bulleted list.

[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 1 points 10 months ago

But I like my tables 🥺

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Poor lemm.ee

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah I’d say this is right on par with the philosophy of the instance. Lemm.ee is moreso infrastructure for interacting with the fediverse than a specific community

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We are small af. I think we are mostly just overflow .world users.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

We’re currently the 2nd most active instance measured by MAU, only lead by Lemmy.world