We're #5! We're #5!

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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more like #4 considering the hexbear duplicate
- Good spot. I also want to know, but I fear the backstory...
  
  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.
I'm surprised lemmy.ml isn't on there, it seems really big from my limited experience.
- 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
  
  so small and yet so loud
  
  based on the creation date advertised by the instance, lemmy.ml exists since 2019-04-20. lemmy.world exists since 2023-06-01.
- 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...
- Post on an instance are not necessarily the right metric to how active the users of an instance are, just how many large and active communities are there.
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).
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.
- 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)
  
  I think when we yell "five", there should be a spirited booty shake.
  
  Well, now you are on a firm basis to chant being #4!? 😜
- (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.
  
  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.:-)
- 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
  
  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!:-).
- dang I did not expect .ee to be on top behind .nsfw
  
  At a guess, bc it doesn't have that many communities on it?
  Efforts are underway to change that but yeah it definitely lacks the same punch as others - like sh.itjust.works has 5 communities that are each larger, some by almost 3 times, than the absolute largest one on lemm.ee.
  That instance seems not so much a "source" of content across the Fediverse as a "destination" for posts made to communities elsewhere.
  Then again, very little else compares to Lemmy.World in that regard - it has another 10 communities each larger, some twice as large, as sh.itjust.works does. It would be healthier for the network effects to split that up a bit more... but fortunately their upgrade process over the next few months should help a little.
If you exclude blocked instances, you're a lot higher than #5...
- Yeah, we're pretty much #2, which seems thematically appropriate :)
Hexbear is counted twice, so you're actually #4.
This image is a bit disheartening, ngl
*#4, hexbear (ew) is on there twice.
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.
- They really aren't, 4k monthly active users out of 43k
  
  4k too many
Does that include the NSFW instances?
- Perhaps the list originally started at 0...
Why heckbear 2 times? I am confuzzled
- They're just that good at posting lol
This is the instance I direct everyone to, it’s been the most reasonable AND least bothersome.
5/7
- 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.
- 5/7
  With rice?
  
  No, it's a perfect score
- The users are users, but the admin thinks foreign countries are using gender ideology to destroy the American empire from within.
  
  That’s not what they said though.
  
  That's what my enby pals in Amsterdam think, as well though...
I don't know why, but I expected to see Aussie.zone here since it feels incredibly active to me haha
- The Melbourne daily threads are quite something
- I just want to take a moment to say your username is amazing.
  
  Thanks, it's one of my favourite pieces of poetry
I'm good with my smaller community that is "seven seas friendly" in dbzer0
- Hey, much respect to that.
I got here as a kbin.social refugee and I can't say I have any complaints.
- what happened with kbin?
  
  Its creator and only maintainer started having health problems and that was it.
I imagine feddit.nl is nowhere near the top but I sort of like it that way.
- 20th by monthly active users, accounting for hexbear double entry
  https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
  Definitely a good position
  
  Certainly enough to keep the instance afloat I assume!
All I see is sjw being #2.
Wow. So great. Amazing. Truly exceptional.
- Damn right!
This makes me wish I could currently see comments on posts on sh.itjust.works. Bug in sync is making it not work.

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