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

submitted 4 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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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 19 points 4 months ago

Surprised to see my small instance mentioned here 😅

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 months ago

Your work is recognized!

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Sorry mate, those figures with no meaningful captions are borderline incomprehensible. Like, what's the difference between first and second figure?

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[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

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[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago

Duplicate instances are a problem imho. You can see the network effect synergy working by how many communities flock to the biggest instance lemmy.world.

There also need to be tools to merge two communities on separate instances, or move them.

Two of my niche instances tried to leave reddit, but then there were two versions, one on .ml and one on .world. Confusing. Maybe there need to be reviews for communities or instances.

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[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Does anyone else just see pacman throwing up a rave?