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

submitted 10 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 7 points 10 months ago (17 children)

I knew hexbear was big but not that big

[+] Emmie@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (36 children)

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

I don’t like defederations. I prefer to see everything, every post and comment and then block users/instances on my own if it becomes too much.

Literally a second ago I blocked another tankie, from LW this time. Before I even managed to type this comment fully. But then I don’t shy from making comments that attract them if I disagree with something. So inbox always busy

[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you waste alot of time with people who don't deserve it

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes but this may be a side effect of turning off the points experiment. Instead of getting dopamine from points I only get replies. So it could be that I subconsciously make my comments in a way that is more likely to attract some kind of response.

My main goal for Lemmy was to break Reddit addiction and I feel gaining likes plays a big part in staying glued to the screen

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

I think ideally a Lemmy client could connect to a number of instances, and you could add the more contentious ones yourself.

Some of these places are literally hosting child porn. You don't want that mirrored to a server that you're responsible for.

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[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 2 points 10 months ago (9 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 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, Hexbear was there before the exodus. So that wouldn't make sense.

[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

Hexbear is older than most of the fediverse, and didn't have federation enabled for years. It's a very self-sufficient community.

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[–] Alk@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (10 children)

What is hexbear? I never see it in my feed.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Think of it as the Tankie version of The Donald.

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[–] sunglocto@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

Your instance is defederated from them

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[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not really surprising. 10 out of the 10 most commented posts in the past year are on hexbear (the top 2 being the weekly trans mega threads). Granted, a lot of that is just the hyper-active posting of a few users. Regardless, if you want a trans community, there's basically no active alternative to hexbear's traaa here.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What about blahaj?

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I'm subscribed to pretty much all the trans coms I know of and traa is 90% of the trans content that shows up. Another 5% are other hexbear trans subs. Traa has as many comments in half a month as mtf@blajah has had in its entire existance and as many in a week as trans@blahaj has made in total (the two largest non-hexbear trans subs afaik).

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[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 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.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I expected them to be much larger

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I was surprised too, but if you go by MAU hexbear and Lemmy.Ml combined are just under 3k last I checked.

Lemm.ee alone has about that many, and Lemmy.world has many times that

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 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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[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 6 points 10 months ago (17 children)

2 observations:

Wow I didn't think hexbear was that large. That's unfortunate...
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.

[–] ericjmorey@discuss.online 6 points 10 months ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Sure, but getting people on a fediverse platform is still good.

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[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (5 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 4 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 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

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Oh definitely

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Hehehe hardest hehehe

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

💜Purple slices rise up!💜

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