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

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

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

Community Count:

Community Users:

  • BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.deOP
    244·
    3 months ago

    My guess is that they just needed to have their own community for a lot of stuff because so many instances are defederated from them. Though I am not sure…

    • aasatru@kbin.earth
      81·
      3 months ago

      I guess it’s also natural that subcultures that tend to be banned elsewhere are early adaptors of alternative platforms.

      We’re lucky we didn’t exist when the Trump extremists on Reddit went looking for a new home, or they would probably have been one of the biggest fields in this figure. Hopefully when the right wing extremists arrive instance admins will have the good sense to defederate.

    • Binette@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      If I remember correctly, Hexbear was there before the exodus. So that wouldn’t make sense.

        • Synapse@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          Nothing wrong with beehaw as far as I know, but a while ago they defederated lemmy.world because the instance is to big and not moderated enough, or something like that.

        • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          No. Just that they’re defederated from lots of big instances so they tend to gave their own communities, which increases their size on chart.

          Unlike Hexbear, they chose to be defederated