Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:
- lemmy.world: 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
- lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
- beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
- sh.itjust.works: 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
- feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
- lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
- lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
- lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
- lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
- programming.dev: 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users
I’m hoping the great guys at .ml will approve my registration there. Setting up a backup account and would prefer it be there with all my stuff subscribed and ready, just in case.
Of the top five, sh.itjust.works seems to be the best. Definitely the instance that I would recommend to new users.
I did try to start with that. My first experience was in may I think and ironically enough, it did not work back then. Probably improved a lot since then.
I’m currently starting out on Lemmy.world, any reason to switch over?
Not really once you have an account. During the protest lemmy.world and ml were basically unusable though, but either they scaled or people left the servers.
Why is that?
Well I would recommend it since it works, hence the name, shitjustworks lol.
In all seriousness, you can’t start a new platform and simultaneously expect to exclude large segments of potential users. Shitjustworks seems to toe the line better than other instances. They ban spam/bots while still allowing most content.
Generally, I recommend avoiding the top two instances if you are considering creating an account, and I would recommend avoiding beehaw for other reasons. So that leaves you at shitjustworks.
I‘m all with you on the beehaw topic, but please keep in mind to recommend smaller instances to newbies, because that‘s what federation is all about. Aside from load distribution (lots of instances are run by individuals or groups on small(ish) machines), you can avoid being independent on single large entities keeping their uptime etc.
TLDR: recommend smaller instances for load distribution to get the best out of a federated world!
I wouldn’t recommend small instances to newbies. New users will likely use the All feed a lot, until they discover the communities they like. And on a small instance the All feed isn’t going to have as many communities in it. Also the experience of searching for communities is worse on a smaller instance.
I think these aren’t problems for experienced users but I don’t think we want to expose newbies to them if we can help it.
Why wouldn’t the All feed have as many communities on small instances? Does federation have to be ‘consensual’?
Also, I noticed I can reply to comments on this thread but not the post itself. Does this have to do with federation or is it a limitation of Jerboa or smthn?
(Also - TIL feddit.it is located in Finland!? 😅)
All is based on every community that someone subscribed to on an instance, so smaller instances generally have less communities.
Do you mean local communities? If not, I do not understand your statement.
Also: can you explain how searching for communities is worse on smaller instances than on large ones? That does not make sense to me and does not reflect my experience at all.I run my own instance and the one thing I will say is that I don’t see as much content browsing all on my own instance versus all on lemmy.world. Not sure why that is.
I’d second the recommendation to avoid BeeHaw. That’s where I started when I left Reddit. It’s not bad per se there. I wouldn’t say that they are rude or anything. The big problem is that they’ve decided to defederate from many other Lemmy instances.
In case anyone doesn’t understand federation, imagine if you signed up for an email address and then realized that, because the person running the email service decided so, you can’t email anyone at Gmail.com or Hotmail.com. If you have nobody you want to email there (no Lemmy communities you want to interact with there), then it’s not a problem. However, if you decide you really want to join a community there, it gets difficult.
I left BeeHaw and signed up for Lemmy.world.
I don’t understand the big push to defederate from other instances when individual users can block instances as they please.
Individuals can’t block whole instances yet (apart from via a browser extension), once that feature arrives there will be a lot less call for defederation I expect.
I didn’t know that. Thank you for clarifying.
Because that’s where the most active NCD community is.
I wonder how many of these are unique? I’m sure that many, like myself, have created accounts on more than 1 instance.
Yep, due to the uncertainty on the durability of instances, I have created my main user on a small instance to help the distribution but also backups on bigger ones.
To be counted as active, you have to have commented or at least liked a post/comment, IIRC. So if you’re hopping around from one login to another within 24 hours and actively engaging on them then yes, you’d be counted more than once in these stats. If you’re just lurking, no.
Everybody needs at least two. One for regular interaction, and another for porn. I mean for science.
Research!
“culture”
Culture and science.
I feel called out.
I’m guessing most of the Beehaws at least have duplicates since they cut themselves off.
Why did they do that?
As a protective measure when lemmy.world got exploited.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but that’s looking to have been a prudent option if they wanted to avoid bad actors at all costs.
Sorry dude, you’ll have to subtract one unfortunately. I created a NSFW account to have two different home feeds.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Is lemmynsfw down? I can’t log in with my alt account
Nope, works for me
Do you have 2FA enabled on it?
Have a separate account on burggit.moe and lemmynsfw for this exact reason. Plus a lot of alt accounts on instances that are defederated (different usernames for each).
Ummm. I have a friend that has a 2nd NSFW account too.
You and I must have the same friend ;)
“Of course I know him, he’s me”
I though I was me? This is getting confusing.
Only two?
That’s how it’s meant to be.
A master, and a baiter.
More than just, I have accounts on 3 of those 10.
Why? There’s porn and general stuff. And this dichotomy is beautiful. Like yin and yang.
In my case:
feddit.de didn’t update and as soon as I switched to another account I couldn’t login again
So I created one on shitjustworks. (which ended up with the same problem, but I wouldn’t want to have a third sfw-account so I just waited until it resolved)
And I wouldn’t be surprised if there was another old account of mine on feddit.de from a time where lemmy was just this weird thing some people in r/berlin linked to
I’ll probably make a professional identity alongside my personal identity. So two total. Yeah.
I created my lemmy.world account first, but I like the site name for sh.itjust.works so I have one there too.
I think it’s okay, since people on all platforms create multiple accounts and throwaways.
Make that 233 999 and one duplicate account by @Jay@sh.itjust.works
Plus100.000 from threads which is part of the fediverse (maybe)
Threads isn’t federated yet, and this is just counting lemmy numbers anyway.
I know, I was just taking a piss of threads. I had to uninstall it cause it was clogging my phone, not joking. It’s true shit code
You and me both brother… Plus my dumbass might have made one user for pornlemmy and and other for lemmynsfw. I need to be learned
“I need to be punished”
I think that Lemmy does need more of the right exposure.
If you search for any Lemmy content on Google or Duck-Duck-Go, you don’t get any good results. This is probably because most people use Apps or secure browsers that don’t allow tracking.
Maybe Duck-Duck-Go need to have a !bang search modifier for Lemmy. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
Maybe Duck-Duck-Go need to have a !bang search modifier for Lemmy. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
Most likely not feasible, because what the bangs do is passing
site:domain.comto the search result. As you know, Lemmy does not have a singular domain name so this won’t work for it. As a matter of fact, there is a bang for Mastodon, but it only searches the biggest instance, mastodon.social.
Hey that’s me!
Does anyone know where I can find that bot that takes all my subs for me, an allows me to import them into a new account? I really dig reddthat, however there have been a few scares already, and I’d love to have a core backup so if I do move around it’s easily set up.
Seconding this. I saw it in a comment but was like nah I’ll never need that 😂 3 hours later I made a second account and was like fuck where that thing go 😂
Thank you so much
I used https://sub.rehab/ to import my reddit subs. Didn’t do all of them but it’s good enough so far
Huh. It feels a lot livelier than that.
I’m curious what the Services column means.
Lemm.ee is omnipresent
I just created an account there to avoid some of the lag from all the traffic. I know nothing about this instance, lol.
I’m old enough to remember a simpler time before lemm.ee was in the top 10 largest instances (it was 2 days ago when I signed up)
Time sure flies when you’re having fun!
The sudden death of VLemmy and temporary closing of lemmy.world pushed a bunch of people here I think.
I’m one of em
I’m another!
Did the admin say anything or just pulled the plug and vanished?
It’s a lemmystery.
Really though, from what I’ve seen in other discussions surrounding it, it’s a genuine mystery as at the time I’m writing this (and as far as I’m aware), there’s been no further information on what happened with it, why it’s offline, etc. Lots of speculation, but no direct info to go off of.
Indeed, no one has heard anything yet. It’s very strange, I hope the VLemmy admin is ok.
And it was created only 9 days ago.
A bit more than that😅
Funny, I got 9 days based on your oldest post! 😄
When did you create lemm.ee? Thanks for all hard work, by the way.
According to my cake day, it was just over 1 month ago now
That’s wild
I’m a lemm.ee veteran! Yup, been here a whole 10 days now.
Same!
not a lot of midwesterns i guess (im on midwest.social)
I bet we fall just outside the top 10. Seems pretty busy here to me, plus our LOTR memes make top upvoted pretty frequently. Honestly I’m wondering if the user distribution might be pretty dang good below the top 5 servers or so; 234k could be a serious underestimation of the actual active userbase if the next 20 servers all have 1k+
midwest.social is currently #22 with 1621 accounts and 499 monthly active users.
yeah the site wouldnt load for me at the time but it does now
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I think I can confidently say now that this is a legit Reddit alternative
I’m happy to see someone say that. Just made my account a minute ago
Quickly approaching the same amount of new content created. Better memes too
I think, because it’s a new platform that most of us want to see succeed, everyone is far more active to ensure the communities get established. If there’s a couple of days without a post in one of the 3d printing communities I subscribe to, someone will post a random print they find useful or ask a question about a new filament to keep it active. This low stress discussion is great.
The 3d printing community on that other site ais great, but sometimes it feels like posts don’t gain traction unless it’s on a 1 cubic meter Voron that can print PEEK (translation: very expensive/unique). On the Lemmy communities, there’s more discussions on Enders and Anycubics (translation: most common budget printers).
Yeah I’ve genuinely not missed it, been just over two weeks and I’ve been having so much fun here I haven’t once found myself at a loose end wondering whats happening on Reddit
Which is surprising considering i still run quite a few subs I started and mod a few medium sized ones, when I get back home in a couple of weeks I’ll convert my bots to message me via lemmy instead and I really don’t think I’ll be going back
I confidently deleted my 33k karma, 12 year old reddit account yesterday. I agree.
Mr big shot over here. I don’t think I ever looked at my karma over there
I took note of it before I left. Other people mentioned it. I didn’t think it would be as big as it was. Kinda cool. Never cared about it enough to check.
This is amazing
Now I want to know how many of this population did not use a 3rd-Party reddit app.
There is a whole lot of desktop and laptop users who couldn’t care less about APIs, but some of them have begun to notice that Reddit just isn’t the same anymore.
Right here. I used the standard Reddit app.
Why‽ It was awful compared to Relay and RIF and those aren’t even the coveted 3rd party apps.
I remember trying RIF way back in the day. I think before the official app was even rolled out. I can’t even tell you why or how I quit RIF as it’s been so long ago.
I personally didn’t have much of a problem with the official app, even though it could be wonky at times. I was more of a lurker and not a mod nor any kind of power user or anything. I left Reddit more on the principle of not wanting to support a greedy company anymore.
Increased population in lemmy.world is attributable to Redditisfun directly linking to this instance with its dying notification. Other instances may have vastly different compositions as a result.
Sync did the same I believe.
I did use the standard reddit app
