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Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 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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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm from another nation-oriented instance that has an outsized presence, right next to Duitsland.

My guess is:

  • Germany is a big, populated country
  • People from DACH also gravitate towards feddit.de
  • The culture kinda gives itself to the project
  • The NL and the EU are the main funders of Lemmy
  • The government itself is embracing the Fediverse
[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think one reason is the large number of German users on the Internet. With around 100 million speakers, German is the second most spoken native language in the West after English.

According to the application texts, many users seem to come from various podcasts. We are also "endorsed" by one of the largest German-language subreddits on its front page (r/ich_iel). Our users have also started to watermark their memes, which occasionally attracts new users. Feddit also made it into an article in a popular IT magazine (heise).

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Wait, isn't French second with 210k?~~

~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Europe#List_of_languages ~~

Sorry, misread, you are correct about native speakers!

[–] lukini@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is Latin America not the western world? That would add another 200 million or so Spanish speakers.

[–] brunox@feddit.cl 3 points 1 year ago

Is Latin America not the western world?

We have too much melanin to join the club.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't Spanish speakers on their own link agregator, https://www.meneame.net/ ?

[–] lukini@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No idea. But they said "German is the second most spoken native language in the West after English" whereas the wikipedia article is on Europe, so that would exclude Latin America if it's part of the west. I believe if they are included, they absolutely dwarf the number of German speakers.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ohhh that's going to piss off Greek Nazis. The fascist Junta back in the days was all in on "we're western we're the source of everything western we are the west", not to mention "Turks are filthy pigs we have nothing in common with them", meanwhile, the music.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It's a good question though why there are so few Spanish speakers here (or at least visible).