cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/893150
Lemmy instances by number of communities with over 1 thousand (5 thousands, 10 thousands) of monthly users:
Lemmy.world: 122, 30 over 5K, 12 over 10K, 1 over 20K (Technology, Lemmy Shitpost, News, Politics, World News, Memes, Comic Strips, Microblog Memes, Ask Lemmy, Political Memes, Linux Memes, No Stupid Questions)
Lemmy.ml: 30, 7, 4 (Memes, World News, Ask Lemmy, Linux)
sh.itjust.works: 11, 5, none (White People Twitter, Games, Greentext, Funny, NonCredibleDefense)
Hexbear, 12, none, none (Chapo Trap House, The Dunk Tank, generic named communities)
Lemmy NSFW 10
Sopuli 8, 1 (Memes, Ukraine, Steam Deck, Meow_IRL, AnarchyChess, Aneurysm Posting, NYT gift articles, Map Enthusiasts)
Lemm.ee 7 (Movies and TV, Cyanide and Happiness, Artporn, YUROP, Movies, BrainWorms, Conservative)
Beehaw 6 (Technology, Gaming, FOSS, Politics, World News, Humor)
Lemmy.ca 6 (PC Gaming, Canada, Nostalgia, Cool Guides, Offbeat, Men’s Liberation)
Midwest.social 5, 1 (The Onion, Lord of the memes, Memes, The Right Can’t Meme, Religious Cringe)
SLRPNK 5, 1 (Climate, Memes, Solarpunk, Antiwork, tombstone of „TwoXChromosomes”)
/0 4, 1, 1 (Piracy, ADHD memes, Lefty Memes, Stable Diffusion Art)
Feddit.de 4, 1 (Europe, ich_iel, DACH, Deutschland)
Mander 3, 1, 1 (Science Memes, Science, Astronomy)
Programming.dev 3, 1 (Programmer Humor, Programming, Comics)
Lemmy.zip 3 (Global News, Technology, Gaming)
Feddit.uk 3 (UK, UK politics, Casual UK)
Lemmygrad 3 (GenZedong, World News, Comradeship)
Blåhaj Lemmy 1, 1, 1 (196)
Star Trek Website 2 (RISA, Star Trek)
ani.social 2 (Anime, Animemes)
Lemmon 1, 1 (Tails)
TTRPG Network 1, 1 (RPGMemes)
Lemdroid 1 (Android)
Reddthat 1 (Memes)
KDE 1 (KDE)
Futurology.today 1 (Futurology)
Aussie Zone 1 (Australia)
Lemmy.one 1 (Privacy Guides)
Lemmy Fan 1 (Weird News)
Diagon Lemmy 1 (The Leaky Cauldron)
tchncs 1 (Right to Repair)
Smeargle 1 (mirror of Hacker News)
- Lemmy.world has got a plurality of 1K/mo Lemmy communities. (122 vs 140) Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml together make a majority of 1K/mo Lemmy communities (152)
- Lemmy.world has got a majority of 5K/mo Lemmy communities (30 vs 22)
- Lemmy.world has got a majority of 10K/mo Lemmy communities (12 vs 7)
- Lemmy.world has got only 20K/Mo Lemmy community
- Only 1K/mo national “sublemmies” are Canadian, Australian, British and German. Only non-English 1K/mo “sublemmies” are German.
What’s so bad about lemmy.ml?
I assume the usual complaint, which is that it’s the one of the only major servers where tankies are prevalent.
That’s, of course, not to suggest that even a majority of its users are tankies or that there aren’t plenty of great communities there, but the users who are tankies seem to be almost entirely split between lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.