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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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[-] frankenswine@lemmy.world 83 points 2 months ago

more like #4 considering the hexbear duplicate

Did hexbear go through mitosis?

(Or are they going through mitosis like how USSR did in 1991? 🤣)

[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Good spot. I also want to know, but I fear the backstory...

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised lemmy.ml isn't on there, it seems really big from my limited experience.

[-] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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. But total posts they have at 147k, what is going on here?

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.ml

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago
[-] Khrux@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 months ago

Honestly I think their higher upvote / post ratio is a better formula. Most of Lemmy has too little engagement on it's posts for my tastes.

[-] Nothing4You@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago

based on the creation date advertised by the instance, lemmy.ml exists since 2019-04-20. lemmy.world exists since 2023-06-01.

[-] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 31 points 2 months ago

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).

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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.

[-] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

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)

[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

I think when we yell "five", there should be a spirited booty shake.

[-] ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

🎶🎤🎶Errybody get yer shit onna dancefloor! Now work it. Just work it. Errybody getcher shit n work it🎶

[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

🎤Wanna drive a lamborghini? Drink martinis? You betta work bitch🎤

[-] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

See, everyone is coming in and talking about different means of measuring instances, the implications for the fediverse and the position of federated services against corporate monoliths like reddit.

But you, verity - you get it.

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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 5 points 2 months ago

Well, now you are on a firm basis to chant being #4!? 😜

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

(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.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 5 points 2 months ago

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.:-)

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Yes, MUCH. Sh.itjust.works is much faster as well. I don't know if it's because LW is still on 0.19.3 or what, but it's a very significant difference.

LW isn't associated with the US except for the fact that they're keen to kowtow to corporate censorship to avoid being sued and the like. Since they're by far the most visible instance on Lemmy I can't really blame them and it's probably better that they're more cautious to possibly take some of the heat off of everyone else. As you said, they didn't serve my needs, so I went elsewhere - having that option is what I love about the fediverse.

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[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 6 points 2 months ago

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!:-).

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah, monthly active users is definitely the better metric, I just wanted to point out that in this case, it falls in the same place either way.

I wonder what the best metric would be for measuring how distributed Lemmy is. Maybe the ratio between total active monthly users vs the top 5 or 10 instances?

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[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

dang I did not expect .ee to be on top behind .nsfw

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[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 26 points 2 months ago

If you exclude blocked instances, you're a lot higher than #5...

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

Yeah, we're pretty much #2, which seems thematically appropriate :)

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago

Hexbear is counted twice, so you're actually #4.

This image is a bit disheartening, ngl

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 16 points 2 months ago

*#4, hexbear (ew) is on there twice.

[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

im still relatively new to lemmy and am crossposting or whatever the term is , from lemmy.world but its mind boggling that the tankie sect is as big as it is on here.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

They really aren't, 4k monthly active users out of 43k

[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
[-] Blaze@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

Your instance defederates from hexbear and grad already. You can choose to block ml in your account settings

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

But then what would they complain about?

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

Does that include the NSFW instances?

[-] Birch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Perhaps the list originally started at 0...

[-] ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Why heckbear 2 times? I am confuzzled

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

They're just that good at posting lol

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

This is the instance I direct everyone to, it’s been the most reasonable AND least bothersome.

5/7

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Im not seen as a specific subset like if I were to move to blahaj or Midwest (which would be my next two picks). I like being seen as 'just a person'

It, quite literally, just works.

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

I'm good with my smaller community that is "seven seas friendly" in dbzer0

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[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago

I don't know why, but I expected to see Aussie.zone here since it feels incredibly active to me haha

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

The Melbourne daily threads are quite something

[-] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I just want to take a moment to say your username is amazing.

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[-] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

I got here as a kbin.social refugee and I can't say I have any complaints.

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[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 7 points 2 months ago

I imagine feddit.nl is nowhere near the top but I sort of like it that way.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

20th by monthly active users, accounting for hexbear double entry

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Definitely a good position

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[-] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

All I see is sjw being #2.

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