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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

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!

Dark_Dragon ,

Somebody did dirty for shitjustworks instance and that colour

Feathercrown ,

That contrast makes it impossible to read some labels

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

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).

WaterSword ,
@WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Hexbear (if you disagree with their politics) is basically like a white american from the deep south. They’re perfectly reasonable to talk to as long as it isn’t politics

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.

Binette ,

Hexbear was there before the reddit exodus, so this make no sense.

Please verify your claims before saying nonsense.

TexMexBazooka ,

Because they - specifically Chapo trap house-got all of their communities banned from Reddit years before.

You are not making the argument you think you are

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.

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.

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)

v4ld1z ,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

Ayy, lemmy.zip

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.

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