Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:

  1. lemmy.world: 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
  2. lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
  3. beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
  4. sh.itjust.works: 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
  5. feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
  6. lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
  7. lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
  8. lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
  9. lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
  10. programming.dev: 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users

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

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[–] 61 points 3 years ago (10 children)

Not to be the fly in the ointment, but you can't really just add those up and expect that number to be accurate if we're trying to look at unique users within the fediverse. If I had to hazard a guess, a not-so-insignificant chunk of those probably overlap (i.e. users who have made multiple accounts across several instances). I have made an account across lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin and fedia just as backups in case one instance fails. I might be an extreme case having 4, but pretty sure it's becoming increasingly common for people to have at least 2 accounts (1 on a different instance).

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    If anything, I'm betting the population of lemmynsfw is more representative of the number of unique accounts across all instances since there's really no point in creating more than one porn account.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I have two accounts. But that's when lemme.world was kind of crashing because of that update, and I thought I was doing something wrong. So I went to a different instance.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    I made a bunch of accounts on a bunch of instances when I first started because I didn't understand how they were connected. Even now, I'd suggest having one or two on the instances you like and decide which ones work best

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    To be fair, I am sure many people also have multiple accounts on the same instance. I am not sure what is the proportion between people opening accounts for backup like you and people just wanting alt accounts.

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