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Just saw this on AskLemmy at .ml, thought this and chuckled, and now here we are.

Will take the opportunity to thank our admins for what they do, and all you humans for being here and generally being cool.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago

more like #4 considering the hexbear duplicate

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did hexbear go through mitosis?

(Or are they going through mitosis like how USSR did in 1991? 🀣)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good spot. I also want to know, but I fear the backstory...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It's the same one, not sure why it's reported twice.

That orb they have a puppet instance the same way ask their users have puppet accounts.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm surprised lemmy.ml isn't on there, it seems really big from my limited experience.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

No really, .ml isn't even in top 10? Did they opt-out from these statistics or are they that small?

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Edit: well I guess they really are that small. But total posts they have at 147k, what is going on here?

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

based on the creation date advertised by the instance, lemmy.ml exists since 2019-04-20. lemmy.world exists since 2023-06-01.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Huh, you're right. In fairness this is cropped from an image shared on the AskLemmy .ml thread, so I'm not 100% sure what's going on there. Edit: Image is legit. Weird...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

They're just loud. Like a terrier.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Personally I would go with Monthly Active Users, e.g. since Hexbear has managed to run off a good fraction of its users over time (which lemmy.world is in the process of doing as well).

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This puts sh.itjust.works as #4, which it's been for a good long while, above Lemmy.ml and Hexbear and nearly all other instances.

Link, but the URL does not preserve the options shown, so you have to resort by Monthly Active Users.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Man, I just wanted to chant "We're #5", now I have people coming at me with facts. :p

(Jokes aside, I appreciate it. There's nuance to these metrics and what best accounts for 'size', particularly for those cases/services where the metrics reflect a little bugginess anyway)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think when we yell "five", there should be a spirited booty shake.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🎢🎀🎢Errybody get yer shit onna dancefloor! Now work it. Just work it. Errybody getcher shit n work it🎢

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

🎀Wanna drive a lamborghini? Drink martinis? You betta work bitch🎀

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

See, everyone is coming in and talking about different means of measuring instances, the implications for the fediverse and the position of federated services against corporate monoliths like reddit.

But you, verity - you get it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Well, now you are on a firm basis to chant being #4!? 😜

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

(which lemmy.world is in the process of doing as well)

I'm one of them. Luigi censoring was the catalyst. I came to Lemmy to get away from corporate censorship. It also doesn't help that it's slow as fuck on desktop compared to the others I tried.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised to hear about the slowness issue - I think this is the first time that I have, though I am definitely spoiled at Discuss.Online that has such a great technical admin (he also is the one who was developing Sublinks, before life and a baby intervened:-). Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Tbf there is legit fear in the USA that Trump will start to place bans or at least watchlists on social media outlets that Musk does not make money off of. Then again, I thought that LW wasn't really associated with the USA in any way besides having a bunch of users from it, and anyway you have found a perfect solution to the problem - if they don't want it, go somewhere else that does allow what you need.:-)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Yes, MUCH. Sh.itjust.works is much faster as well. I don't know if it's because LW is still on 0.19.3 or what, but it's a very significant difference.

LW isn't associated with the US except for the fact that they're keen to kowtow to corporate censorship to avoid being sued and the like. Since they're by far the most visible instance on Lemmy I can't really blame them and it's probably better that they're more cautious to possibly take some of the heat off of everyone else. As you said, they didn't serve my needs, so I went elsewhere - having that option is what I love about the fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sh.itjust.works is at #4 by total posts as well, since hexbear was counted twice in the OP.

It's both amusing and unsurprising that lemmynsfw is second though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Wouldn't total posts bias towards older instances though, counting posts over time rather than activity today? So then good point that sh.itjust.works is so high up by both metrics:-).

While lemmy.ml continues to fall - by active users I think I recall it was #3 at some point, then #4, while now it's #5, where based on the gap below it, it seems likely to remain since users are now more distributed than previously (which is a good thing!:-).

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

dang I did not expect .ee to be on top behind .nsfw

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you exclude blocked instances, you're a lot higher than #5...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Yeah, we're pretty much #2, which seems thematically appropriate :)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Hexbear is counted twice, so you're actually #4.

This image is a bit disheartening, ngl

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

im still relatively new to lemmy and am crossposting or whatever the term is , from lemmy.world but its mind boggling that the tankie sect is as big as it is on here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They really aren't, 4k monthly active users out of 43k

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your instance defederates from hexbear and grad already. You can choose to block ml in your account settings

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

But then what would they complain about?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

*#4, hexbear (ew) is on there twice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does that include the NSFW instances?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Perhaps the list originally started at 0...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (13 children)

This is the instance I direct everyone to, it’s been the most reasonable AND least bothersome.

5/7

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Im not seen as a specific subset like if I were to move to blahaj or Midwest (which would be my next two picks). I like being seen as 'just a person'

It, quite literally, just works.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why heckbear 2 times? I am confuzzled

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

They're just that good at posting lol

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

All this instance flexing has me feeling like a friend trying to get his other friends to like each other. Can't we all get along? I mean, at least the ones that don't promote hate and fascism?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Tbf, Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Lemmy.ml all promote hate via being tankies. And the latter two tangentially support fascism because they support Russia in the current war, because 'Murikkka bad and therefore anyone that hates them must then be good

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This is the best instance in fediverse in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm good with my smaller community that is "seven seas friendly" in dbzer0

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I imagine feddit.nl is nowhere near the top but I sort of like it that way.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't know why, but I expected to see Aussie.zone here since it feels incredibly active to me haha

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

I got here as a kbin.social refugee and I can't say I have any complaints.

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