Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities
Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities
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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I knew hexbear was big but not that big
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.
You're not really using the fediverse until you've been told that you'll get the bullet, too. Sometimes, it's exhausting commenting something pretty uncontroversial and then seeing like eight notifications and realizing it was on Hexbear.
That's why I'm glad my instance blocked them.
I mean, I don't know enough about North Korea here but Lenin decriminalized homosexuality in like 1920. Stalin recriminalized it in 1932-33 but for a bit there the Soviet Union was the most LGBT friendly country in the world.
Bro my instance just defederated them. Happy to say I've never seen their shit
I cannot facepalm hard enough when I see lgbt people (or anyone) who praise western genocidal military alliances either. What's your point?
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.
Interesting, I expected them to be much larger
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...
Or because it's older than most of the other instances
I guess it's also natural that subcultures that tend to be banned elsewhere are early adaptors of alternative platforms.
We're lucky we didn't exist when the Trump extremists on Reddit went looking for a new home, or they would probably have been one of the biggest fields in this figure. Hopefully when the right wing extremists arrive instance admins will have the good sense to defederate.
If I remember correctly, Hexbear was there before the exodus. So that wouldn't make sense.
That's probably it
like Beehaw
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.
It's less that they're big, but old.
I haven't even heard of it xd
I only scroll all for now... Hexbear is the only thing I have blocked. I just got tired of trolly garbage.
Most instances block them so most communities on those instances won't see them either. Once you find certain communities on instances that don't block them you suddenly see half the comments being from hexbear, which likely quickly makes you block those communities fairly quickly.
. world is defederated with hexbear iirc
What is hexbear? I never see it in my feed.
Your instance is defederated from them
Think of it as the Tankie version of The Donald.
It's essentially where reddit's old Chapo Trap House community went after reddit banned them in 2020. It started federating with the rest of the fediverse some time last year, but there was a bit of a culture clash between it and some other larger instances and several of them defederated it
I only know it because it is often mentioned when talking about trolling
It's an instance mostly based around authoritarian communism. They got banished from Reddit quite a bit before the black out.
It’s a leftist server. LW defederated from them months ago because they have some, well, interesting takes on things like the war in Ukraine. I can’t recall the exact cited reasons for defederation but I’m sure you could find the defederation post on lemmy world’s announcements page.
Gab also was big, but its role for the fediverse wasn't.
Who or what is/was Gab? 😅
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.
What about blahaj?
OFL, what is going on with this hexbear? And is there any reason behind the name?