this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

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Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

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Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:

  1. lemmy.world: 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
  2. lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
  3. beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
  4. sh.itjust.works: 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
  5. feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
  6. lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
  7. lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
  8. lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
  9. lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
  10. programming.dev: 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[–] Raphael@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I switched they were one of the biggest communities, I'm really surprised to see just HOW FAR they fell.

beehaw defederating from lemmygrad was the entire reason why I created an account on lemmy.world

[–] hernanca@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't appear like they value growth for growth's sake. And that's cool because it lets them focus on other, arguably more important, stuff. Many of our preconceived notions about social networking don't translate well to the federation model.

[–] matt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair it's not really "falling" - Lemmy instances are not in competition with one another due to federation.

Understandably people want to feel like they "won" somehow, but this isn't something you really need to worry about on the Fediverse, it's more like everyone working alongside each other.