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Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities (media.gehirneimer.de)

submitted 9 months ago by BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 135 points 9 months ago (49 children)

I knew hexbear was big but not that big

[+] Emmie@lemm.ee 112 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (20 children)

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 72 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I can’t say I was bothered when LW defederated. I’ve gotten in way fewer stupid arguments since they did the same with Lemmygrad. IIRC LW didn’t even let hexbear federate in the first place.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

You're not really using the fediverse until you've been told that you'll get the bullet, too. Sometimes, it's exhausting commenting something pretty uncontroversial and then seeing like eight notifications and realizing it was on Hexbear.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 33 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Can you truly say you've had the HB experience if you haven't recieved emoji/sticker/gif spam from people who weren't alive for 9/11, have never been outside their country, and refuse to listen to opposing views, but know with full certainty that all western countries are 100% full of genociders and colonial rapists who all deserve the glorious death the super benign, extremely peaceful and misunderstood countries of North Korea, China, and Russia who have never once been correctly accused of human rights violations....

And of course, if they point out that your country has dipped into those things in the past, well your entire worldview is shattered and their whataboutism has solved everything and proves you deserve the death they crave for you.

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[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 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.

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[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 24 points 9 months ago (10 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...

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 9 months ago

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

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 9 months ago

They’ve existed for a while. A lot of subscribers are inactive users. Kind of like reddit where a sub can have 5k people and still be inactive.

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[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 102 points 9 months ago (8 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 74 points 9 months ago (9 children)

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

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't imagine being a moderator there, the amount of shit they must see uploaded has to be enormous. This would apply to every media-oriented instance but due to their nature I am guessing it's worse

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[–] Ategon@programming.dev 52 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Surprised I dont see programming.dev in the data, we definitely have at least 3 communities in the top 100 (programmer_humor, programming, linux)

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

Manually counted communities in the top 100 per instance and threw it into another pie chart (for active users / month)

This also seems to be different than the results gotten from lemmyverse as the lemmyverse data hasnt been updated in 11 days according to that site

A bunch of instances gained or lost some coms in the top 100 from variance of things happening in the last week

(the eight instances that it decided to not give labels to that have 1 community are feddit.uk, lemmy.zip, beehaw.org, lemdro.id, ttrpg.network, lemmy.wtf, lemmy.blahaj.zone, mander.xyz)

edit: updated graph to be more accurate users/month counts

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[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 39 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And here the diagram by community subscriber count:

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Could you please do it based on monthly active users?

[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Oh that would be interesting as well. I will do that. Checking back in 2h :D

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[–] cron@feddit.org 32 points 9 months ago

I think subscriber count is probably not ideal. I've seen communities where the number subscribers is 10x the number of active monthly users.

For other communities, subscribers is about equal to active users.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 31 points 9 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

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago (5 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.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 9 months ago (5 children)

You didn't use a black color for us? Heresy!

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[–] jay@mbin.zerojay.com 28 points 9 months ago

Probably unintended side-effect of this post: A few people like me discovering new communities to follow. Thank you!

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (23 children)

anyone have any guesses as to why lemmy.world is so big? Scale/size advantage? Reliability advantage? Name recognition? What do we think is the culprit here.

And whilst i'm here, anybody want to explain the source of lemmy.ml to me? I only know it as the instance where mad people yell at me from lol.

perhaps a more "ambiguous" federation system would be better. having community instances is nice and all, but having one literally just be lemmy.world seems a little bit antithetical to me.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy.world has kept open signups open during every large Reddit exodus while many others didn't. It's also decently reliable, has decent moderation and is well known. The reason why people didn't move after is probably because instance migration on Lemmy isn't possible* so they just stick with what they use.

*Yes I don't consider exporting/importing followed communities a migration

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Open signups is the biggest reason. Pretty much every other instance wanted you to jump through hoops to sign up with them.

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[–] Eiri@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago (22 children)

I heard what lemmy is. I googled Lemmy. I downloaded an app. I pressed sign up. I ended up on Lemmy.world.

I'll be honest I don't even really understand what different instances do.

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[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

About lemmy.world - when running from reddit, it was literally first on the list of advised ones everywhere. Also, biggest, so it had most communities. I am actually pretty much only aware of .world, .dbzer0 and sh.itjust.works. From the normal ones anyway.

lemmy.ml is basically an instance made by creators of lemmy from what I know.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I bounced between a few instances and .world seemed to always be up and available. Not to mention all the communities on .world.

I don't have an allegiance. Open more communities in other instances or migrate the .world ones there.

I just want to post.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If I am not mistaken, ML was made by a couple of Fediverse Developers, but their moderation policies are comparable to Elon Musk so nobody goes there.

World has good branding, will moderate, and has some of the best uptime stats.

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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Poor lemm.ee

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago (3 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

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 26 points 9 months ago

Yes, the most active communities (https://lemm.ee/communities) are

All started by different people than the admin, who is indeed quite hands back regarding communities

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[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 23 points 9 months ago

Programming.dev represent! o7

[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Jesus Christ, that's a lot of weirdos.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

suprised mander.xyz is so small

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[–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry mate, those figures with no meaningful captions are borderline incomprehensible. Like, what's the difference between first and second figure?

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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Surprised to see my small instance mentioned here 😅

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[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

A barchart might be better as the comparison of instances with the most subscribed accounts doesn't mean much I feel

we have some users that register but are inactive and/or are infrequently active which could be a sign of lurkers or bots but empty accounts don't mean much when it comes to the health of an instance.

However; if we look at each community's active monthly and daily users it can tell another story and that data compared against Reddit's could be useful for anyone seeking alternatives

I'm rambling with little sleep but hopefully what I've said make a little bit of sense

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