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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

Community Count:

Community Users:

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

I think subscriber count is probably not ideal. I've seen communities where the number subscribers is 10x the number of active monthly users.

For other communities, subscribers is about equal to active users.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

Based on Monthly active users, the picture is different: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

You already see a 4 sh.itjust.works community, a lemmy.ca community, a lemmy.zip community just from the top 30

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

Jesus Christ, that's a lot of weirdos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that table going under the sidebar and off the page for anyone else or just me? (on web)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

On mobile I was able to scroll it horizontally.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is there a way to create a pie like this but on an individual basis?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

You mean the spread of the communities you are subscribed to? If so: probably yes, but not an easy one as you have to have access to the data (or more easily: the database)

[–] [email protected] 134 points 7 months ago (18 children)

I knew hexbear was big but not that big

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

~~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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gab also was big, but its role for the fediverse wasn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Who or what is/was Gab? 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Its like truth social

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (10 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

That's probably it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

What is hexbear? I never see it in my feed.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Think of it as the Tankie version of The Donald.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

It's an instance mostly based around authoritarian communism. They got banished from Reddit quite a bit before the black out.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Your instance is defederated from them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I only know it because it is often mentioned when talking about trolling

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I haven't even heard of it xd

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (9 children)

. world is defederated with hexbear iirc

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I only scroll all for now... Hexbear is the only thing I have blocked. I just got tired of trolly garbage.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And here the diagram by community subscriber count:

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Could you please do it based on monthly active users?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh that would be interesting as well. I will do that. Checking back in 2h :D

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