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Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3804525

Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:

  • lemmy.world: 19516
  • lemm.ee: 3779
  • lemmy.ml: 2970
  • sh.itjust.works: 2355
  • feddit.de: 2293

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's the country codes for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (Deutschland for the D, Confederation Helvetica for the CH). Those are the three countries with a majority of their people speaking German other than Liechtenstein, which is extremely small

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    It also means roof and is reminiscent of Dachsprache. One of those unreasonably neat acronyms.

    And in particular it's the vehicle registration codes, ISO 3166 for Austria is AT (hence also the TLD).

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