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Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities

https://gehirneimer.de/media/cache/resolve/entry_thumb/3f/93/3f93a1af4263b9bf619fdb8678fd0ab2e3df765c83e302fcacc479fb5fe11907.png

The biggest surprise for me was the https://hexbear.net count, an instance I hardly interact with.

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

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

Community Count:

https://media.gehirneimer.de/21/cd/21cdd1045eb39e2ce9ab01a4b3f70d7dfed9f930a3a40016a62cfe43cad4a991.png

Community Users:

https://media.gehirneimer.de/3c/bb/3cbb159daffa604ec792892381cb0ad6bb41822b9f8fa3f5a113ea5bb96c36be.png

Ategon ,
@Ategon@programming.dev avatar

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

meldrik ,

Surprised to see my small instance mentioned here 😅

Blaze ,

Your work is recognized!

Feathercrown ,

That contrast makes it impossible to read some labels

reagansrottencorpse ,

It’s very funny that despite most of you hating hexbear so much, they are still one of the biggest.

OprahsedCreature ,

Turns out Blue MAGA can’t suppress the left. Sad face.

FeelzGoodMan420 ,

2 observations:

  1. Wow I didn’t think hexbear was that large. That’s unfortunate…
  2. The fact that Lemmyworld is like 40% of the pie is NOT good. People are clearly not understanding or not caring thay the point of the fediverse is to prevent any one instance from having too much power. People need to leave lemmy world and join other smaller instances. If lemmy world were to shut down, imagine how many of the most popular communities would be gone.
Blaze ,

Definitely

blackn1ght ,

The problem is most likely people that are new to the fediverse/lemmy just not understanding it and choosing a “default”, popular instance. I was going to pick it as a safe option when I first came here but it was under load and wasn’t accepting new users, where I then had to find another instance and settled on feddit.uk.

It would be good if lemmy instances could have the option of “load balancing” new users, so if the current instance has way more active users than it’s federated wtih then it disables registration but recommends other, smaller instances to the user.

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

I mean the first problem went away when I sorted the communities by active users, though the second one got way worse with it XD

CentauriBeau ,

As someone out of the loop, why is hexbear bad? Alternatively, what is hexbear about?

CentauriBeau ,

Please disregard, after reading further in the comments I get the gist. I guess as I use LemmyWorld I don’t have to deal with them.

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

see: startrek.website/comment/11417825

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

Lemmy.world has no lock in on their “power”. They have the most volunteer labor, money, and infrastructure. That’s makes them stable, so people aren’t worried about their data suddenly going offline (like kbin) and they don’t worry about the service being flaky.

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

The same can be said about gmail and it is the same kind of problem here. Yes lemmy.world is not a profit orient it giant, but it is still a problem when one actor has this power over a federated network. (the scale of the problem is of course a lot larger with gmail)

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

That’s just how federation works out in every federated service ever.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

I agree in principle that .world containing most of the fediverse’s activity kinda isn’t great for the idea of the democratic nature of the fediverse. However, the point of the ‘verse is that anyone can spool up an instance if they dislike it, or start more communities on existing instances. If .world were to disappear it would suck, but that’s part of the problem with any instance in an informal community. Any of them can disappear.

FundMECFSResearch ,

suprised mander.xyz is so small

Blaze ,

!science_memes is the 9th most monthly active community

lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

wiki_me ,

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 ,

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

independantiste ,
@independantiste@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

Blaze ,

Oh definitely

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

I think it is odd that they have no community in the top 100 anymore when sorted by active users

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

I think it’s good.

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

Quality over quantity is what I would prefer. I think LemmyNSFW is a potential determent for other instances.

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

I added it to the main post :)
And yeah should have done so in the initial post as well...

Blaze ,

Thanks!

moosetwin ,
@moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/fa49bcfb-02a4-446e-9f5b-9f8dabacb29a.webphttps://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/89be2030-0127-4f0b-b350-7b8b5113967e.webphttps://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/0e33653a-0d0f-46e9-b4f9-d7ada7da766c.webp

It’s a real mystery, where could these instances possibly be located?

(apologies for derailing, I don’t know where else to post this)

Blaze ,

Pretty lemmy.ca is hosted in Canada

recursive_recursion ,
@recursive_recursion@programming.dev avatar

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

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

I added charts that use the monthy active users

tacosanonymous ,

Poor lemm.ee

TexMexBazooka ,

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 ,

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

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

cron ,

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 ,

Based on Monthly active users, the picture is different: 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

Moghul ,

Jesus Christ, that’s a lot of weirdos.

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Is that table going under the sidebar and off the page for anyone else or just me? (on web)

nokturne213 ,

On mobile I was able to scroll it horizontally.

threelonmusketeers ,

On Thunder, everything (just) fits horizontally:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/67c218d0-1d00-4601-a507-28d268e1e155.jpeg

I might have preferred to scroll horizontally a bit.

onlinepersona ,

I thought they were blocked everywhere. What’s going on? Bunch of bots or something?

Anti Commercial-AI license

WaterSword ,
@WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

No, it’s just a big community by itself already. So while some big instances have it blocked, they have enough users to just have activity from their own instance.

TexMexBazooka ,

It isn’t big though. They just get kicked out of everywhere else they go for being disruptive assholes, so for every community there’s a hexbear duplicate

ZeroHora ,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

Duplicate with half the posts and a third of comments.

TexMexBazooka ,

All of which are super politically charged

ZeroHora ,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

Depends, the /c/[email protected] is politically charged as expect at any game community, what I found more interesting is the hatred for gamers(this one is deserved).

WalrusDragonOnABike ,

Games is the largest games com by far in terms of posts and comments (150k comments and 15k post vs 71k comments and 3k posts on lemmy world…

News has most posts than any other news and about as many comments as lemmyworld.

Politics has the most posts of any politics coms, but far less comments than lemmyworld’s.

History basically has no competitors (150k comments vs 7k for the next largest)

Movies also has no competitors (75k comments vs 9k for the next largest).

Videos has 56k comments vs lemmyworld’s 13k

Music has 45k comments vs lemmyworld’s 6k

Urbanism has 44k comments vs fuckcar’s 19k

Granted, given Hexbear has been around for 4 years, the number of comments/posts is largely a side effect of age. But it also means calling them duplicates is probably misleading. OTOH, the main trans community there has been very active recently, dwarfing all other trans communities combined.

ZeroHora ,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

They are more “community” than the ex-redditor secluded island that is most of the others instances, that’s definitely the side effect of age.

finickydesert ,
@finickydesert@lemmy.ml avatar

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

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

You mean the spread of the communities you are subscribed to? If so: probably yes, but not an easy one as you have to have access to the data (or more easily: the database)

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