Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance
Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance
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:
I'm also impressed by feddit.de presence, Fediverse culture seems strong in Germany
Anyone from Germany care to comment on why this is? Y'all seem to have such a large presence on here compared to others
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
Generally internet culture In the Dach region is very active and forward looking, and potentially ideologically aligned with the idea of Fediverse and generally FOSS software and privacy. E.g. for Wikipedia language share German got overtaken by Spanish only within the last 5 years slipping from 2nd to 3rd suggesting some early adopter and internet participation higher than the norm.
Subjectively a lot of people here have uneasiness with big tech, and are relatively informed about alternatives.DACH on Reddit was also very big, and very ideologically opposed to API changes and general Reddit corpo behaviour. Subjectively again Dach and ich_iel felt like home when I joined, essentially like the Reddit culture I was used to, just with a little more progressive views across the board.
Also I suspect that German language speakers are fairly active within the English speaking parts of the internet in general, while Spanish and French as well as other non Germanic languages seem to have more disdain for English language content and sites, Germans and Dutch as well as Nordics are very comfortable with English as a common language.
I wonder how many of the accounts on world are ones that are just left for dead as people moved around to other instances. I myself was day one on world but the outages became too much.
Probably a lot. I expect LW to go down to something around 17k, maybe even a bit less
I was also on world but switched to lemm.ee when they defederated hexbear.
Made my first Lemmy account on Lemmy.world on the first weekend of June, but the outages of late June/early July pushed me (with some encouragement from others who've already made the jump earlier) to make a lemm.ee account. It was only supposed to be an alt, to be used when Lemmy.world is unusable, but the Meta fiasco then made me decide to make lemm.ee my main.
I've been on sh.itjust.works since day one of my Lemmy existence, because shit just works.
It also doesn't overdo it with defeds (beehaw) and isn't run by tankies (lemmy.ml) or nazis (exploding-heads).
Of course it's the one instance where I accidentally capitalized my username and can't change it to a lower case letter.
Lemmy.ml doesn't take new registrations... Unless that changed
Seems like it did change
Who knew Lemmy was so big in Estonia?
Wait, lemmy.ml is French ?
No, they are just hosted in the OVH data center in France.
I mean, aren't the lemmy dev and lemmy.ml admins French?
The .ml is the country extension for Mali, which was colonized (read that how you want) by France along with other regions of Africa. Just recently French troops left Mali after a nine year military operation to fight Islamic militants.
Lemmy.world is hosted in the USA? I wonder how long til it gets raided by the feds