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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

pruwybn ,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

*instances

Der_Fossyler ,

hey, I see my instance in there 🤗

Diva , (edited )
@Diva@lemmy.ml avatar

One amusing bit re: hexbear, it’s been around almost as long as lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, but it seems was only added to the tracker last year, as it shows up as 12 months old, I have to imagine it’s including posts/comments from before that timeframe because bozhe moi:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/9d23d636-3efe-49fb-847f-574fe29f307b.png

Even if you divide the hexbear comments by 4 they’d still be in the top 3 2 excluding the reddit repost bot. Yappers.

db0 ,
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

My deepest apologies milord 🙏
I promise to do better next time * leaves the throne room backwarss while bowing *

db0 ,
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You must be confused, we don’t have a king, just pirates and anarchists 😁

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

Sorry milord captain 🙏

KillingTimeItself ,

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.

Demdaru ,

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.

qaz ,

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 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

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

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Defederating from Hexbear probably didn’t hurt. I remember when the users were literally flooding .world circlejerking about being the biggest and best instance and that any instance that defederated from them was full of transphobic Nazis.

Eiri ,

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.

butwhyishischinabook ,

Yeah I actually tried beehaw initially but they never dealt with my application, so after a whole I just went with Lemmy.world.

v4ld1z ,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

Ayy, lemmy.zip

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.

Imgonnatrythis ,

Damn, my hexbear filter is getting a real workout!

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,

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.

qaz ,

You can only export and import followed communities afaik

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

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)

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

In this list it doesn't seem like it: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

Ategon ,
@Ategon@programming.dev avatar

Seems like lemmyverse doesnt have the instance listed at all for some reason, assuming a crawling issue. I reported it on their repository. Would be new since I remember it showing the instance before

You can check in programming.dev/communities that programmer humor has way more active users than most communities here

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

Oh that is unfortunate

Ategon , (edited )
@Ategon@programming.dev avatar

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/af8e8726-c182-443f-b019-9ee776ce4ac0.png

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

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

What do you mean by "manually counted"?
And what did you use to generate the chart? Is that a Google API?

Ategon ,
@Ategon@programming.dev avatar

I looked at the community list in programming.dev (from programming.dev/communities) sorted by active users per month and noted down the instances for the top 100 communities

its using google sheets

going to recount with lemm.ees community list in a sec since theyre federated with hexbear

BentiGorlich OP ,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

I hate that their libraries are so good sometimes :D
Mine uses recharts with suboptimal configuration

Liz ,

Eyyyyy midwest.social!

meldrik ,

Surprised to see my small instance mentioned here 😅

Blaze ,

Your work is recognized!

Feathercrown ,

That contrast makes it impossible to read some labels

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