dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
Full list of avg users, results rounded up. 675: mastodon 648: lemmy 500: gnusocial 499: socialhome 232: plume 223: pixelfed 196: go-littr 160: peertube 119: writefreely 87: friendica 74: fedimoe 68: mobilizon 67: starship 66: bookwyrm 60: moodlenet 58: funkwhale 49: zap 47: hubzilla 43: reel2bits 42: red 38: wordpress 37: smithereen 35: pleroma 32: lotide 29: gancio 28: pagure 16: olki 15: activity-relay 14: unciarelay 10: pubgate 9: activityrelay 8: epicyon 7: roadhouse 4: misskey 0: tsundere

Interesting to see how high Lemmy sits. That is basically total users divided by number of instances.

  • aexiruch@lemmy.ml
    21·
    3 years ago

    I find that hardly surprising. There aren’t many lemmy instances out there yet, it is relatively hard to discover groups hosted elsewhere, and the whole UX lends itself towards a “many groups on one server, why venture elsewhere?” approach. Naturally users cluster to the(ir) “main” instance. From a resilience/federation perspective that is a Bad ThingTM, just like it is with Mastodon (that monopolized the microblogging federation space so much, it has become synonymous with it in many peoples minds).

    Here’s to hoping other lemmy-compatible1 servers will be written.

    1 Let’s not get into a discussion of how all ActivityPub implementations are compatible, shall we?

  • poVoq@lemmy.ml
    14·
    3 years ago

    Not a good thing IMHO, but basically just a result of few instances and 2-3 really big ones.

    We need more instances, but for example I though long and hard about hosting my own, and the main reason why I ultimately decided against it (for now) is the relative lack of good moderation tools in Lemmy.

    P.S.: Strange that Misskey is so low. There must be a lot of one person instances or some sort of data error.

    • Lilium@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      I am not a heavy Mastodon user, but I heard about Misskey for the very first time yesterday. From what I could gather from the few-days-old conversation, it’s only now starting to gain traction as “everybody seems to be jumping in”.

      • poVoq@lemmy.ml
        4·
        3 years ago

        Really? It has been around nearly as long as Mastodon and was always a good alternative. The problem I guess is that the documentation is mostly in Japanese.