We're #5! We're #5!
We're #5! We're #5!
Just saw this on AskLemmy at .ml, thought this and chuckled, and now here we are.
Will take the opportunity to thank our admins for what they do, and all you humans for being here and generally being cool.
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Why heckbear 2 times? I am confuzzled
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They're just that good at posting lol
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I'm good with my smaller community that is "seven seas friendly" in dbzer0
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Hey, much respect to that.
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Personally I would go with Monthly Active Users, e.g. since Hexbear has managed to run off a good fraction of its users over time (which lemmy.world is in the process of doing as well).
This puts sh.itjust.works as #4, which it's been for a good long while, above Lemmy.ml and Hexbear and nearly all other instances.
Link, but the URL does not preserve the options shown, so you have to resort by Monthly Active Users.
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(which lemmy.world is in the process of doing as well)
I'm one of them. Luigi censoring was the catalyst. I came to Lemmy to get away from corporate censorship. It also doesn't help that it's slow as fuck on desktop compared to the others I tried.
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I'm surprised to hear about the slowness issue - I think this is the first time that I have, though I am definitely spoiled at Discuss.Online that has such a great technical admin (he also is the one who was developing Sublinks, before life and a baby intervened:-). Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?
Tbf there is legit fear in the USA that Trump will start to place bans or at least watchlists on social media outlets that Musk does not make money off of. Then again, I thought that LW wasn't really associated with the USA in any way besides having a bunch of users from it, and anyway you have found a perfect solution to the problem - if they don't want it, go somewhere else that does allow what you need.:-)
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dang I did not expect .ee to be on top behind .nsfw
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At a guess, bc it doesn't have that many communities on it?
Efforts are underway to change that but yeah it definitely lacks the same punch as others - like sh.itjust.works has 5 communities that are each larger, some by almost 3 times, than the absolute largest one on lemm.ee.
That instance seems not so much a "source" of content across the Fediverse as a "destination" for posts made to communities elsewhere.
Then again, very little else compares to Lemmy.World in that regard - it has another 10 communities each larger, some twice as large, as sh.itjust.works does. It would be healthier for the network effects to split that up a bit more... but fortunately their upgrade process over the next few months should help a little.
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Man, I just wanted to chant "We're #5", now I have people coming at me with facts. :p
(Jokes aside, I appreciate it. There's nuance to these metrics and what best accounts for 'size', particularly for those cases/services where the metrics reflect a little bugginess anyway)
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sh.itjust.works is at #4 by total posts as well, since hexbear was counted twice in the OP.
It's both amusing and unsurprising that lemmynsfw is second though
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Wouldn't total posts bias towards older instances though, counting posts over time rather than activity today? So then good point that sh.itjust.works is so high up by both metrics:-).
While lemmy.ml continues to fall - by active users I think I recall it was #3 at some point, then #4, while now it's #5, where based on the gap below it, it seems likely to remain since users are now more distributed than previously (which is a good thing!:-).
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Lemmy.world has become a pro-censorship toxic shithole lately. Sooo glad I was made to find other instances.
Beauty of the fediverse.. If one place sucks, just find a different one 😊
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Yeah... I'm actually okay with censorship so long as it is clearly explained in advance and fairly applied - then again, I don't necessarily want to join it either, just saying that I'm okay that it exists... over there somewhere (away from me:-).
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Hexbear is counted twice, so you're actually #4.
This image is a bit disheartening, ngl
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This makes me wish I could currently see comments on posts on sh.itjust.works. Bug in sync is making it not work.
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This is the best instance in fediverse in my opinion.
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I don't know why, but I expected to see Aussie.zone here since it feels incredibly active to me haha
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The Melbourne daily threads are quite something
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I just want to take a moment to say your username is amazing.
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This is upsetting as fuck. This one picture just made me realize that Lemmy is likely never going to get much bigger. The top is just an exact clone of Reddit, meaning there's no reason to use it over Reddit, and the next three are active propaganda mills filled with fascists and tankies. After that you get normal servers. That's a terrible look. That guarantees anyone new joining will likely join one of those 4 and will either think "what's the point, this is just Reddit with a percent of the users" or "JFC these people are all Nazis" or worst of all which seems to already be the case "finally, somewhere I can speak freely about those dirty Ukrainians/Palestinians/Americans/Women/LGBTQ/OtherMinorities!"
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So? Is there a contest?
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So!? We're #5! Or 4! Or something!
(Not everything needs a point - I just felt like posting this. Though it does look like it's started a discussion about the relative size of lemmy and different instances, which is neat to think about once in a while - or disheartening depending on your perspective)
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I appreciate your effort, shitjustworks needs more silly shitposts no cap
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This is the instance I direct everyone to, it’s been the most reasonable AND least bothersome.
5/7-
5/7With rice?
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The users are users, but the admin thinks foreign countries are using gender ideology to destroy the American empire from within.
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I imagine feddit.nl is nowhere near the top but I sort of like it that way.
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20th by monthly active users, accounting for hexbear double entry
https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Definitely a good position
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I got here as a kbin.social refugee and I can't say I have any complaints.
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what happened with kbin?
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Its creator and only maintainer started having health problems and that was it.
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more like #4 considering the hexbear duplicate
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Did hexbear go through mitosis?
(Or are they going through mitosis like how USSR did in 1991? 🤣)
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Good spot. I also want to know, but I fear the backstory...
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It's the same one, not sure why it's reported twice.
That orb they have a puppet instance the same way ask their users have puppet accounts.
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I'm surprised lemmy.ml isn't on there, it seems really big from my limited experience.
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No really, .ml isn't even in top 10? Did they opt-out from these statistics or are they that small?
https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Edit: well I guess they really are that small
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so small and yet so loud
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based on the creation date advertised by the instance, lemmy.ml exists since 2019-04-20. lemmy.world exists since 2023-06-01.
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Huh, you're right. In fairness this is cropped from an image shared on the AskLemmy .ml thread, so I'm not 100% sure what's going on there. Edit: Image is legit. Weird...
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They're just loud. Like a terrier.
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All this instance flexing has me feeling like a friend trying to get his other friends to like each other. Can't we all get along? I mean, at least the ones that don't promote hate and fascism?
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Tbf, Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Lemmy.ml all promote hate via being tankies. And the latter two tangentially support fascism because they support Russia in the current war, because 'Murikkka bad and therefore anyone that hates them must then be good
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*#4, hexbear (ew) is on there twice.
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If you exclude blocked instances, you're a lot higher than #5...
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You just made me realize that for me they are number one as I've got the other 4 blocked.
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Yeah, we're pretty much #2, which seems thematically appropriate :)
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Does that include the NSFW instances?
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Perhaps the list originally started at 0...
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