There used to be the Alexa ranking for websites but it seems to no exist anymore. Elsewhere I only could find for lemmy.world ranking (something like 55000, yay!) but not the actual userbase, and nothing about any other instance (let alone the entire Fediverse).

      • originalucifer
        9•3 days ago

        keep in mind thats active users. that number is usually a small percentage of unique visitors in any system.

        • dpflug
          5•2 days ago

          If I recall, the rule of thumb is orders of magnitude. If you have 100 active users, there are probably about 1,000 lurkers, and only 10 substantial users that account for most of your content.

          This is the rule from corporate marketing stats, tho, so who knows if the Fedi works the same.

      • @[email protected]
        3•2 days ago

        While the user bases of Piefed and Mbin are smaller, they should be included as they federate with Lemmy and interact with our communities.

        The same is true of Mastodon but that’s a lot harder to count since most Mastodon users are not interacting with Lemmy (since it’s a different style of platform - microblog vs link sharing).