A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances as a bar chart race: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14058992/ and as a line chart: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14080522/.
Yeehaw Beehaw!
I chose not to sign up on lemmy.ml as it didn’t seem that they were looking to become “big”, and seems more focused on a specific niche. How come they are so popular despite those points?
I’m actually quite pleased to see lemmy.ml focus on what they want to focus on rather than being a general purpose instance like mastodon.social. I read their mission statement and they were pretty adamant that they want to see a variety of different instances - and we should! Reminds me of the golden forum days.
There’s definitely a forum vibe here. You can already see that the different instancess (lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, lemmy.world, lemmy.one) have their own specificities. Very refreshing.
People see that they have the highest user count and gravitate towards it. Most people don’t really get how federation works, so they worry about getting “stuck” on an instance with no one to talk to
Most people don’t really get how federation works
This is 100% me, but my understanding is that you can see all community content and interact with everyone regardless of what server you’re on, is that more or less correct? I went with beehaw because it seemed moderately popular (I’d read that servers can disappear, and figure more users=less likely?) and is focused on keeping out assholes, which I am 100% cool with.
I to thought it wise to pick one with high numbers. It had nothing to do with being afraid of not having people to talk to though, as I understood that we’d all be connected. It was more a fear that an instance with 20 users might get shut down because the owner got bored. In my mind it seems less likely that a popular instance gets shut down.
So what happens to an account if an I stance goes away?
This is really cool, thanks for sharing! Do you plan to update it again in the future? I’d love to see what happens an about a month!
Yes, I plan to update it again after the 8th of July.
Is there a time-series plot version of this? I always have difficulty really absorbing the data when it is animated like that.
Poked my head in to the AMA and it’s basically what I expected. To the surprise of no-one Spez is a tool and should go boil his ass.
The answers were infuriating beyond all reason. Like dude… If you’re trying to avoid being used for training llms, that’s totally reasonable. Nuking all 3P apps is an insane response, fuck off.
I spent years on Reddit and somehow didn’t realize until today what an unscrupulous person he is. And not only unscrupulous, but downright unprofessional.
We can say what we want about someone like Mark Zuckerberg, but he would never behave in the way that Spez did in that AMA. It’s just not befitting of the CEO of a company.
He also had a bit of controversy several years back when it came out that he was stealth-editing other people’s comments.
Pretty cool to see it growing. I’d love to see where this is at in another month or two after reddit’s latest clown changes.
I notice (and I realize it’s most likely an issue at the source and not the fault of the creator) that some now-dead instances which were formerly top-10 aren’t show here. Hexbear also isn’t shown: while it (currently) doesn’t federate, similarly to bakchodi, it is also a fork and so technically not Lemmy, but pretty much Lemmy.
I used https://the-federation.info/'s Lemmy page to determine the current top 10 Lemmy instances as of the 8th of June 2023. The website only has sorting function for the current data, and the instances have to opt in to be included. Therefore, it is likely that some instances are not included. Furthermore, the website seems to only contain data from the last year, so the website do not have documentation on the top instances prior to this period.
Nice work, Gabino! Thanks!
Did anyone else hear a horse race announcer while watching this? “And coming out of nowhere, it’s Beehaw! The crowd is stunned as Beehaw rockets to third place! This is one to keep an eye on, folks!”
Dope! I wonder what the numbers would be for active users
Beehaw 🔛🔝
Go beehaw!!
30k users? Doesn’t lemmy.ml have around 1k users? Are those visitors numbers?
Or does it include other Fediverse users…
It is the amount of user accounts the instance have.
Yea. If the weekly/monthly user numbers are available, that’d be cool too. Tough to get a clear image during migrations though because signing up and never returning counts, I think, as a weekly/monthly active user in the time window.
Cool animation BTW!!
I really like where this is going. Feels like we’re settling a new frontier!
I don’t see anything. All it says is a flourish data visualization
Click on one of the links, and you will be taken to the page where the visualization is. The visualizations are not rendered on beehaw.org.
Ok it works now
Would love to see this as average active users.
I don’t have statistics visual over time, but currently active user ratio is well above average on Beehaw, at roughly 23% compared to 7% overall.
Well done, and pats on the back for keeping it by-and-large civil!
