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

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It isn’t big though. They just get kicked out of everywhere else they go for being disruptive assholes, so for every community there’s a hexbear duplicate

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hexbear was there before the reddit exodus, so this make no sense.

    Please verify your claims before saying nonsense.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because they - specifically Chapo trap house-got all of their communities banned from Reddit years before.

    You are not making the argument you think you are

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When you say "It isn't big", you're comparing it to reddit? That would basically dwarf all Lemmy instances combined lmao.

    This post was comparing Lemmy instances with other Lemmy instances. Hexbear was its own website for a while, and only decided to start trying federation like a few months after the whole reddit thing. They're fine on their own even, so I don't know why people keep acting as if they necessarily want to be federated.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When did I say anything about Reddit?

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    If you read the rest of that sentence, you’ll (maybe) figure out that there isn’t any comparative statements there- just pointing out that hexbear mostly originated from users banned from Reddit, for being toxic and disruptive.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    If it wasn't a comparative argument, then what's wrong with my original statement?

    Edit: I think I understand what you're coming from, but it still doesn't make sense? They were self contained, and they didn't just make those communities because they were defederated? It's because there was demand. If some random instance with one user makes like 100s of communities, will it count in the graph?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    If some random instance with one user makes like 100s of communities, will it count in the graph?

    Yeah it will, that’s the problem with using community count as a measure for the activity of a given instance.

    Hexbear is interesting because like you said, they’re very self contained.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Duplicate with half the posts and a third of comments.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Games is the largest games com by far in terms of posts and comments (150k comments and 15k post vs 71k comments and 3k posts on lemmy world..

    News has most posts than any other news and about as many comments as lemmyworld.

    Politics has the most posts of any politics coms, but far less comments than lemmyworld's.

    History basically has no competitors (150k comments vs 7k for the next largest)

    Movies also has no competitors (75k comments vs 9k for the next largest).

    Videos has 56k comments vs lemmyworld's 13k

    Music has 45k comments vs lemmyworld's 6k

    Urbanism has 44k comments vs fuckcar's 19k

    Granted, given Hexbear has been around for 4 years, the number of comments/posts is largely a side effect of age. But it also means calling them duplicates is probably misleading. OTOH, the main trans community there has been very active recently, dwarfing all other trans communities combined.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    All of which are super politically charged

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Depends, the /c/games@hexbear.net is politically charged as expect at any game community, what I found more interesting is the hatred for gamers(this one is deserved).

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