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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.

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:

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

Community Users:

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

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.

tacosanonymous ,

It would be the hardest thing to moderate if lemmy blows up though.

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Hehehe hardest hehehe

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

last i checked lemmynsfw just looks like r/gonemild though

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Do they even have original posters? I thought it was just onlyfans farmers reposting their Reddit content.

TexMexBazooka ,

There’s a few OC users there

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
Blaze , (edited )

Pretty sure lemmy.ca is hosted in Canada

moosetwin ,
@moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah right, if lemmy.ca is in Canada then aussie.zone and lemmy.eco.br are in Australia and Brazil. Get a load of this guy.

pruwybn ,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

*instances

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.

Fitik ,
@Fitik@fedia.io avatar

"Truth social" has more monthly active users than all Lemmy instances combined, does it make it better?

Ambii ,

goo goo ga ga

archomrade ,

If i’m understanding the last graph right, it’s showing the total number of active monthly users per instance’s top communities, filtered by the overall top 100 communities?

So if an instance has activity spread out over many niche communities, that activity isn’t represented on this graph?

I would think having a diversity of smaller communities is more in-line with the spirit of the fediverse, I’m not sure of the value in slicing the data in this way.

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

tacosanonymous ,

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

TexMexBazooka ,

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

Imgonnatrythis ,

Damn, my hexbear filter is getting a real workout!

jay ,
@jay@mbin.zerojay.com avatar

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

moonlight ,

Very interesting, although I'd like to see how different threadiverse software like mbin fits into this.

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

It uses the lemmy API, so it is plattform specific. AP has no metric for active users in the magazine yet, only instance wide. So for mbin only total subscriber count would be a metric

Dark_Dragon ,

Somebody did dirty for shitjustworks instance and that colour

meldrik ,

Surprised to see my small instance mentioned here 😅

Blaze ,

Your work is recognized!

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar
Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar
BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

Nearly but not exactly :D

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar
Blaze ,

Could you please do it based on monthly active users?

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

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

Blaze ,

Thanks!

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

I will add both pictures to the main post as well. Here is the Pie chart for community count:

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

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar
Blaze ,

Great !

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

Lemmy.world gets A LOT bigger this way XD

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

Feathercrown ,

That contrast makes it impossible to read some labels

FundMECFSResearch ,

suprised mander.xyz is so small

Blaze ,

!science_memes is the 9th most monthly active community

lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

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.

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