Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3804525
Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:
I'm also impressed by feddit.de presence, Fediverse culture seems strong in Germany
Anyone from Germany care to comment on why this is? Y'all seem to have such a large presence on here compared to others
I'm from another nation-oriented instance that has an outsized presence, right next to Duitsland.
My guess is:
Generally internet culture In the Dach region is very active and forward looking, and potentially ideologically aligned with the idea of Fediverse and generally FOSS software and privacy. E.g. for Wikipedia language share German got overtaken by Spanish only within the last 5 years slipping from 2nd to 3rd suggesting some early adopter and internet participation higher than the norm.
Subjectively a lot of people here have uneasiness with big tech, and are relatively informed about alternatives.DACH on Reddit was also very big, and very ideologically opposed to API changes and general Reddit corpo behaviour. Subjectively again Dach and ich_iel felt like home when I joined, essentially like the Reddit culture I was used to, just with a little more progressive views across the board.
Also I suspect that German language speakers are fairly active within the English speaking parts of the internet in general, while Spanish and French as well as other non Germanic languages seem to have more disdain for English language content and sites, Germans and Dutch as well as Nordics are very comfortable with English as a common language.
Curious about the blank stats for hexbear. Should this populate over several weeks or do they pull from OUR statistics and it just didnt take them yet?
:im-being-oppressed:
Where's Radio Free Lemmy when you need them
There are here on this site: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
I believe that your admins are blocking that information from being scraped. If that's not the case, then it's probably due to the fact that you guys run a unqiue fork of the Lemmy code.
But it's certainly not about the timing, afaik.
I wonder how many of the accounts on world are ones that are just left for dead as people moved around to other instances. I myself was day one on world but the outages became too much.
Probably a lot. I expect LW to go down to something around 17k, maybe even a bit less
I was also on world but switched to lemm.ee when they defederated hexbear.
Made my first Lemmy account on Lemmy.world on the first weekend of June, but the outages of late June/early July pushed me (with some encouragement from others who've already made the jump earlier) to make a lemm.ee account. It was only supposed to be an alt, to be used when Lemmy.world is unusable, but the Meta fiasco then made me decide to make lemm.ee my main.
Grats lemm.ee! Just gotta pump those numbers up and pass lemmy.world now
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All credit goes to @HornyOnMain@hexbear.net!
I've been on sh.itjust.works since day one of my Lemmy existence, because shit just works.
It also doesn't overdo it with defeds (beehaw) and isn't run by tankies (lemmy.ml) or nazis (exploding-heads).
Lemmy.ml doesn't take new registrations... Unless that changed
Seems like it did change
Lemmy.world is hosted in the USA? I wonder how long til it gets raided by the feds
Of course it's the one instance where I accidentally capitalized my username and can't change it to a lower case letter.
Who knew Lemmy was so big in Estonia?
Wait, lemmy.ml is French ?
No, they are just hosted in the OVH data center in France.
I mean, aren't the lemmy dev and lemmy.ml admins French?
The .ml is the country extension for Mali, which was colonized (read that how you want) by France along with other regions of Africa. Just recently French troops left Mali after a nine year military operation to fight Islamic militants.
Pretty impressive! Wonder where kbin instances fit in those stats.
Kbin is pretty nice, but sometimes it feels like it is... a bit too nice? Clean UI, better uptime, but also seems a little bit more closed. Makes me feel a little paranoid. Is there a corporation running it?
Total lemmy comments: 4,256,302
Total Hexbear comments: 3,710,000
Total hexbear comments: 3,710,000
Hexbear comments with more than just one emoji/picture: 100,000
😔
source?
facts don't care about your feelings sweetie, hexbear.net has more real engagement than any other instance, sorry your bot posters don't count!
Chapos are efficient. Why post a paragraph when one big emoji works?
I would’ve guessed 20x more.
We love our emotes
Hexbear comments that aren't related to politics: 0
Rhebus posting is what the youth do now. Get with the times gramps
holy fuckin sheeeit lmfaooo
They're worth a whole lot more than you, anyway
oh fuck off
Yes. Now post a picture of your hog.
Singular they goes back at least as far as Shakespeare. Also, "you" was originally a plural pronoun.