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Just saw this on AskLemmy at .ml, thought this and chuckled, and now here we are.

Will take the opportunity to thank our admins for what they do, and all you humans for being here and generally being cool.

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[–] UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

This is the best instance in fediverse in my opinion.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm good with my smaller community that is "seven seas friendly" in dbzer0

Hey, much respect to that.

[–] ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why heckbear 2 times? I am confuzzled

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

They're just that good at posting lol

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't know why, but I expected to see Aussie.zone here since it feels incredibly active to me haha

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

The Melbourne daily threads are quite something

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just want to take a moment to say your username is amazing.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Thanks, it's one of my favourite pieces of poetry

[–] OpenStars 31 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Personally I would go with Monthly Active Users, e.g. since Hexbear has managed to run off a good fraction of its users over time (which lemmy.world is in the process of doing as well).

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This puts sh.itjust.works as #4, which it's been for a good long while, above Lemmy.ml and Hexbear and nearly all other instances.

Link, but the URL does not preserve the options shown, so you have to resort by Monthly Active Users.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

(which lemmy.world is in the process of doing as well)

I'm one of them. Luigi censoring was the catalyst. I came to Lemmy to get away from corporate censorship. It also doesn't help that it's slow as fuck on desktop compared to the others I tried.

[–] OpenStars 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised to hear about the slowness issue - I think this is the first time that I have, though I am definitely spoiled at Discuss.Online that has such a great technical admin (he also is the one who was developing Sublinks, before life and a baby intervened:-). Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Tbf there is legit fear in the USA that Trump will start to place bans or at least watchlists on social media outlets that Musk does not make money off of. Then again, I thought that LW wasn't really associated with the USA in any way besides having a bunch of users from it, and anyway you have found a perfect solution to the problem - if they don't want it, go somewhere else that does allow what you need.:-)

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Yes, MUCH. Sh.itjust.works is much faster as well. I don't know if it's because LW is still on 0.19.3 or what, but it's a very significant difference.

LW isn't associated with the US except for the fact that they're keen to kowtow to corporate censorship to avoid being sued and the like. Since they're by far the most visible instance on Lemmy I can't really blame them and it's probably better that they're more cautious to possibly take some of the heat off of everyone else. As you said, they didn't serve my needs, so I went elsewhere - having that option is what I love about the fediverse.

[–] OpenStars 3 points 2 days ago

If LW helped you migrate from Reddit to the Threadiverse until you knew more what you were looking for and could find a true home in lemm.ee that meets your needs better, then both of them sound awesome at their respective roles to me.:-)

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Man, I just wanted to chant "We're #5", now I have people coming at me with facts. :p

(Jokes aside, I appreciate it. There's nuance to these metrics and what best accounts for 'size', particularly for those cases/services where the metrics reflect a little bugginess anyway)

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[–] UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world has become a pro-censorship toxic shithole lately. Sooo glad I was made to find other instances.

Beauty of the fediverse.. If one place sucks, just find a different one 😊

[–] OpenStars 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah... I'm actually okay with censorship so long as it is clearly explained in advance and fairly applied - then again, I don't necessarily want to join it either, just saying that I'm okay that it exists... over there somewhere (away from me:-).

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

dang I did not expect .ee to be on top behind .nsfw

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[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 83 points 4 days ago

more like #4 considering the hexbear duplicate

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Did hexbear go through mitosis?

(Or are they going through mitosis like how USSR did in 1991? 🤣)

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[–] ddplf@szmer.info 3 points 2 days ago

And not a pretty company to have around ngl

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago (12 children)

This is the instance I direct everyone to, it’s been the most reasonable AND least bothersome.

5/7

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Im not seen as a specific subset like if I were to move to blahaj or Midwest (which would be my next two picks). I like being seen as 'just a person'

It, quite literally, just works.

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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

This makes me wish I could currently see comments on posts on sh.itjust.works. Bug in sync is making it not work.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 days ago

Hexbear is counted twice, so you're actually #4.

This image is a bit disheartening, ngl

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'm surprised lemmy.ml isn't on there, it seems really big from my limited experience.

[–] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

No really, .ml isn't even in top 10? Did they opt-out from these statistics or are they that small?

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Edit: well I guess they really are that small. But total posts they have at 147k, what is going on here?

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.ml

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 days ago

Honestly I think their higher upvote / post ratio is a better formula. Most of Lemmy has too little engagement on it's posts for my tastes.

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you exclude blocked instances, you're a lot higher than #5...

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[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (4 children)

im still relatively new to lemmy and am crossposting or whatever the term is , from lemmy.world but its mind boggling that the tankie sect is as big as it is on here.

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