2023-07-15 10:34 859 instances, 29068 communities
2023-07-16 10:34 853 instances, 29468 communities
2023-07-17 10:34 851 instances, 30223 communities
2023-07-18 08:10 858 instances, 30376 communities
2023-07-18 12:05 860 instances, 30294 communities
2023-07-18 18:05 856 instances, 29762 communities
2023-07-19 00:25 852 instances, 29361 communities
2023-07-19 06:04 842 instances, 29956 communities
2023-07-19 12:05 837 instances, 29917 communities
2023-07-19 18:04 830 instances, 29677 communities
2023-07-20 00:14 827 instances, 29677 communities
2023-07-20 06:04 825 instances, 29544 communities
2023-07-20 12:06 812 instances, 28591 communities
2023-07-20 18:04 811 instances, 28559 communities
2023-07-21 00:14 790 instances, 28422 communities
2023-07-21 06:05 786 instances, 27407 communities
2023-07-21 12:05 785 instances, 28522 communities
2023-07-21 18:05 785 instances, 28191 communities
2023-07-22 00:14 778 instances, 27242 communities
2023-07-22 06:05 772 instances, 25492 communities
I was hoping those 5595 spam communities a disgruntled lemmy.world created had finally been deleted, but it’s not that.
The data is published about 4 times a day, and there’s a bit of variance each day, but not as much as the latest difference.
I’ve deleted over 4000 communities today 😁
And here’s the culprit!
lemmy.fmhy.ml is down and all its communities are obviously missing as well. That might be it
lemmy.fmhy.ml is 1 instance, which had about 340 communities, so that’s some it, yeah.
My understanding is that all free .ml instances got removed as well - could be a sizeable chunk.
Of the missing instances, fmhy is the only .ml instance.
I’m starting to think it’s more because of servers falling over recently (e.g. 530 communities on sh.itjust.works, 370 communities on pornlemmy.com, and 380 communities on exploding-heads.com)
I wonder how many of those instances are single user instances and the numbers going up and down so sharply are curious people spinning up instances, getting bored and killing them once they get bored. I’d like to be able to see how much other platforms in the fediverse fluctuate
The instances on the list are only ones with communities on them. The website is currently showing 1251 instances for today, so I assume that includes single-user instances
Wait what; how could 10% of the instances just disappear?!
People gave it a shot and shut down their servers. Or farmbots moving to something else
