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:

  • @repungnant_canaryEnglish
    18•28 days ago

    Sorry mate, those figures with no meaningful captions are borderline incomprehensible. Like, what’s the difference between first and second figure?

    • BentiGorlichOP
      8•28 days ago

      I used 2 different metrics to rank the communities:

      • at first I sorted the communities by their total subscriber counts. The two diagrams coming from this sort are easily recognizable because hexbear has a big chunk of the communities in them.
      • the second one ranks them by active users per month. These are the ones where lemmy.world has >50%

      For each of the 2 ranking metrics there are 2 different chars:

      • Labeled “By Community Count”: just count the amount of communities out of the 100 biggest that are on a given server
      • Labeled “By Community Users”: sum up the amount of users (active/month or total suscribers) in all of the 100 biggest that are on a given server