lemmy.world leads the pack as the #1 most active instance, outpacing the next 5 non-bot instances combined!

That's great and imma let you finish but remember that decentralization is strength on the fediverse. Join or create other instances, join or create communities on other instances, thats our strength.

On the fediverse, instances come and go. I've seen big instances go down either permanently or temporarily, and ive also seen big communities decide they're turning off federation. The only way to be safe from that is to decentralize, so if something happens there's still something worth doing on the fediverse.

Besides that though, congratulations lemmy.world, I love to see the thrediverse Renaissance we're in, and nothing but love for the folks running this instance and the folks participating on it.

Also lemmy.world is extremely slow in pushing out messages to other instances, if at all. So leading the pack is not necessarily the best thing until you figure out scaling.

Good. It is important to have different instances to distribute the load though. However, I hope there are not many people joining BeeHaw...

Back in my day lemmy.ml was the biggest instance.

More users does not ALWAYS mean a good thing.

NGL I thought Blajah would be higher given that 196 moved there

Good time to appreciate the lack of dominant centrality here compared to mastodon.

Mastodon's flagship instance run by the BDFL, mastodon.social, has ~10 times the monthly active users of the next biggest instance.

Here, there isn't really a flagship instance, as the devs don't want their instance to be anything more than the one they happen to run, and it's not the biggest, and the biggest is independent of the lemmy dev team and isn't even that much bigger than the others.

Hello All, First time poster here. I would just like to say that i tried signing up for beehaw.org but they have some kind of purity test that reminds me of Reddit. Don’t ever sign up for beehaw, that is going to be one hell of a drama filled instance.

We did it Reddit!

Too bad the users are partially yelling into the void: https://lemmy.world/post/609080 Hope it gets fixed.

This dominance worries me a little. Luckily the communities are spread across instances fairly well

lemmy.world is probably leading because it’s easy to sign up

It's awesome to see the growth, but as a small question, why don't all the instances upgrade to version 0.18? Maybe that version isn't stable enough?

I joined world because it was the little one, with like 100 active users according to the stats on the signup page. Hmph.

its a monopoly stooop it

What counts as an active user? Voting? Commenting? Posting?

now they just need to update to 0.18. I've been back on lemmy.ml since the update. The scrolling kills it for me.

What is the purpose of bots, other than spam, lemmy tools and 3rd party scrapers (if that’s a thing)?

Love seeing the growth!

I might jump ship in order to bring balance to the force

how cool is that!

Now show us a chart differentiating between robots and sentient users.

What's the number #6 instance?

Great, but all this activity also has a subtle downside. Lemmy.world is by far the slowest federating instance I see on the Lemmyverse. It typically takes hours for posts and comments to reach my instance.

Hopefully improvements to Lemmy will make federation faster and more efficient. Sidekiq seems to do a good job on large Mastodon instances.

I guess the percentage of inactive lemmy.ml user is higher due to the higher percentage of older accounts.

Who is Lemmy? Is this an underground movement thing on the dark web or something?

Don’t upgrade to 0.18.0! It has a lot of issues.