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lemmy.world leads the pack as the #1 most active instance, outpacing the next 5 non-bot instances combined! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Active users as of June 25, 2023:

lemmy.world (48k users): 13554 active users
lemmy.ml (38k users): 4582 active users
beehaw.org (11k users): 3743 active users
feddit.de (6.7k users): 2320 active users
sh.itjust.works (6.5k users): 2167 active users
lemmy.ca (3.5k users): 1082 active users

Great to see all this growth and activity in different lemmy instances!

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back in my day lemmy.ml was the biggest instance.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Poggers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Good. It is important to have different instances to distribute the load though. However, I hope there are not many people joining BeeHaw...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope there are not many people joining BeeHaw…

I don't hope that, exactly, I just hope that the people who join understand what they're getting (and, more importantly, what they aren't). I fully support a community with a different goal than most, and their goal seems like a wholesome one. I personally think it's doomed to failure, but I support them giving it a try. They're barely part of the fediverse though.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Why not beehaw? Did something happen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Regardless of what happened, beehaw is not for everyone.

They aim to be a safe haven for people that are afraid to be harassed for who they are. It's a noble goal IMO but to achieve that, they have to moderate their instance quite heavily.

If you're not their target audience, you'll find it too restrictive.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like beehaw.org is shedding users. They've lost about a thousand users since defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works last week. Maybe a bunch of people weren't happy with that move.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whats wrong with beehaw? I got a couple really active, good communities from there in my feed

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

They block a shit ton of instances, not always for good reasons. Often to maintain an echo chamber.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thwe number #1 uswer of Lemm Worlkd is horses who are forcesd to horse by peple who rider horses in HoirseWOrld.,HELOM

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now show us a chart differentiating between robots and sentient users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like there are sentient users on social media sites.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good time to appreciate the lack of dominant centrality here compared to mastodon.

Mastodon's flagship instance run by the BDFL, mastodon.social, has ~10 times the monthly active users of the next biggest instance.

Here, there isn't really a flagship instance, as the devs don't want their instance to be anything more than the one they happen to run, and it's not the biggest, and the biggest is independent of the lemmy dev team and isn't even that much bigger than the others.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

That might also be a response to what users were asking for. Signing up for a server confused the shit out of everyone. It was to the point where Mastodon’s confusing onboarding process was frequently being covered by major media outlets across the globe.

Instead of continuing to iterate on sever selection experience, they just started to say “fuck it” and started dumping everyone into .social.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This dominance worries me a little. Luckily the communities are spread across instances fairly well

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This dominance worries me a little.

I don't think there's much to worry about. Having large general instances is perfectly healthy and good for the Fediverse as that's where people new to the Fediverse will land.

I predict that large niche instances will start popping up, one example already being programming.dev, and that's simply because there are domains where you might need extra customization.

For example, one can imagine a mathematics & physics oriented instance where LaTeX is available, or a chess-only instance where you'd have things like chessboard.js to allow members to post chess diagrams etc... Basically a return to what we had with old-school forums except this time the instances would be federated.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If every lemmy.world active user committed to just 2 posts and 2 comments per day there would be 27,000 new posts and comments to read daily, or more than 1,000 per hour on average.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is Lemmy? Is this an underground movement thing on the dark web or something?

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the purpose of bots, other than spam, lemmy tools and 3rd party scrapers (if that’s a thing)?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Propaganda, brigading, post votes manipulation, and once accounts are "established" they could be sold for astroturfing.

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