The biggest surprise for me was the https://hexbear.net count, an instance I hardly interact with.

Community Count Community Subscriber Count
beehaw.org 6 133450
hexbear.net 33 663204
lemdro.id 1 17052
lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 15907
lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 53006
lemmy.ml 14 356460
lemmy.one 1 16257
lemmy.world 39 851950
lemmynsfw.com 2 33586
sh.itjust.works 1 16006
sopuli.xyz 1 14093

The data this is based on comes from https://lemmyverse.net where you can just download a full json of the data they have (I excluded all communities marked as “suspicious”)

EDIT: The data if you sort by active users last month:

Community Count Community Active Month Count
awful.systems 1 2616
feddit.org 2 7363
feddit.uk 2 5289
hexbear.net 1 2952
lemdro.id 1 2898
lemm.ee 3 8898
lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 11422
lemmy.ca 3 14910
lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 13752
lemmy.ml 10 54949
lemmy.world 57 338384
lemmy.wtf 1 3602
lemmy.zip 3 12020
mander.xyz 1 11469
sh.itjust.works 5 37365
slrpnk.net 3 10897
sopuli.xyz 2 10070
ttrpg.network 1 4107

Community Count:

Community Users:

  • @FiniteBanjoEnglish
    10•28 days ago

    It’s hard to beat an operation with state funding.

    • Todd BonzalezEnglish
      9•28 days ago

      I was briefly a Hexbear member pre-federation, and while I don’t have any proof, I left because that was exactly the vibe I got from the place.

      • @FiniteBanjoEnglish
        1•27 days ago

        Hexbear contains a funded propoganda network filled with bots. All the other content on there is mostly just to lure people in.

        • mathemachristian[he]English
          1•27 days ago

          Right because this corner of the internet is so important and well-visited we gotta spend our state funds on a propaganda network, planting the seeds years in advance of it being able to germinate and fill it to the brim with emojis. Do you even know what a good bot costs nowadays? Vladimir Putin would have our heads.

          • @FiniteBanjoEnglish
            2•27 days ago

            You don’t need to make an inferno to spread fire. You just need sparks.

        • @drathvedro@lemm.eeEnglish
          0•27 days ago

          But, who’s the alleged state sponsor? Don’t tell me it’s Russia, that wouldn’t make any sense.

            • @drathvedro@lemm.eeEnglish
              0•26 days ago

              Oh come on now. Think a little. What is hexbear all about? LGBT and Communism. Now, guess which two things Putin heads the most? Do you really think that we have money to fund people LARPing as gay commies, on an isolated instance, in an obscure social network, in a country that’s already extremely short on cash because of war? Get your head out the arse.

                • mathemachristian[he]English
                  0•26 days ago

                  Liking leaders because of their policies and not because of who has more rizz is just completely unheard of for you is it?

                  • @FiniteBanjoEnglish
                    1•25 days ago

                    Stuff like becoming “General Secretary” for life, concentration camps for Uighurs, hostility with Taiwan, India, and Indonesia, takeover of Hong Kong, and Document 9 of 2013?

                    You like how LGBT aren’t allowed to marry or adopt? You like that China are a corrupt capitalist oligarchy run by a militaristic dictatorship hand in hand with Billionaires because they at least claim to be communist?

                    The only place you can find tens or hundreds of people singing the praises of an actual living dictator is in a place they own.