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:

  • Cataphract@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Imagine my surprise to see you in here talking about LW centralization isn’t good. You came onto a support question (link) for a community I had started with one of my concerns being the LW centralization and you quickly told me to abandon my community. Extremely weird considering you run a generic fantasy community which already exists in many places so felt a little kettle/pot.

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Hello,

      I’m actually happy to talk about LW centralization at large. It’s a topic I like to discuss on [email protected], feel free to join us there.

      To come back to your questions, there are different types of communities depending on how popular the topic is

      • very popular topics (tech, news, memes, politics) exist on Lemmy on a lot of different instances. [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc. They are all active, no need to worry about those.
      • moderately popular topics: in this case, usually there is a large LW community, and then a smaller non-LW community. A mentioned “movies” above as an example, there is a whole list at the end of this post.
      • low activity topics: here, there is only one community, and it’s not that active. It is on LW, but the community is already so small that getting it active is a higher priority than bringing people to another instance. Examples: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

      I feel like StarGate probably belongs in the third group, which is why I suggested you to consolidate with the existing LW communities.

      Also, lemmy.ml have faced some powertripping complaints:

      Extremely weird considering you run a generic fantasy community which already exists in many places so felt a little kettle/pot.

      Interesting, I had actually forgotten about that community, which is why the last post there is 2 months ago. I’ll probably close it in the coming weeks and redirect elsewhere, after asking the community feedback.

      On the other hand, I actively post to all of the following communities, to try to keep them off LW