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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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[–] [email protected] 134 points 8 months ago (11 children)

I knew hexbear was big but not that big

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

~~They have less than 500 MAU~~. It’s just a bunch of losers yelling at each other.

Correction, updated data is actually closer to 2k MAU. They are the 4th most active instance, topped by lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, and Lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I expected them to be much larger

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Yeah I was surprised too, but if you go by MAU hexbear and Lemmy.Ml combined are just under 3k last I checked.

Lemm.ee alone has about that many, and Lemmy.world has many times that

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (8 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago

Or because it's older than most of the other instances

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Hexbear is older than most of the fediverse, and didn't have federation enabled for years. It's a very self-sufficient community.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

They’ve existed for a while. A lot of subscribers are inactive users. Kind of like reddit where a sub can have 5k people and still be inactive.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

It's less that they're big, but old.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I haven't even heard of it xd

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

I only scroll all for now... Hexbear is the only thing I have blocked. I just got tired of trolly garbage.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Most instances block them so most communities on those instances won't see them either. Once you find certain communities on instances that don't block them you suddenly see half the comments being from hexbear, which likely quickly makes you block those communities fairly quickly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (9 children)

. world is defederated with hexbear iirc

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (12 children)

What is hexbear? I never see it in my feed.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Think of it as the Tankie version of The Donald.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

Your instance is defederated from them

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I only know it because it is often mentioned when talking about trolling

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

It's an instance mostly based around authoritarian communism. They got banished from Reddit quite a bit before the black out.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Gab also was big, but its role for the fediverse wasn't.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not really surprising. 10 out of the 10 most commented posts in the past year are on hexbear (the top 2 being the weekly trans mega threads). Granted, a lot of that is just the hyper-active posting of a few users. Regardless, if you want a trans community, there's basically no active alternative to hexbear's traaa here.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm subscribed to pretty much all the trans coms I know of and traa is 90% of the trans content that shows up. Another 5% are other hexbear trans subs. Traa has as many comments in half a month as mtf@blajah has had in its entire existance and as many in a week as trans@blahaj has made in total (the two largest non-hexbear trans subs afaik).

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