BentiGorlichSpreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities
Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities
lumpenproletariatNearly but not exactly :D
Blaze (he/him)Could you please do it based on monthly active users?
Oh that would be interesting as well. I will do that. Checking back in 2h :D
Thanks!
I will add both pictures to the main post as well. Here is the Pie chart for community count:
Great !
NOT_RICKI knew hexbear was big but not that big
ByteMeI haven’t even heard of it xd
7U5K3NI only scroll all for now…
Hexbear is the only thing I have blocked.
I just got tired of trolly garbage.
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.
. world is defederated with hexbear iirc
Oh. Why?
You could go visit hexbear and you’d find out pretty quickly. It’s definitely not for everyone.
It’s an entire instance of teenage trolls
Other comments hit on this but I’ll add a little more. There is a good bit of trolls/trolling, some extreme views, and authoritarian government praise. Things like that.
Lemm.ee (my instance) is still federated so I see hexbear post/ comments. It’s definitely a more problematic instance imo.
Oh okay, got it
You only got replies from hexbear haters so let me balance it out a bit. Hexbear is by far the most LGBT+ friendly instance in the fediverse and has a supermajority of queer users. They’re aggressively anti-bigotry in all its forms and are extremely happy to educate and engage in discussions as long as you approach them in good faith.
Most people who go out of their way to shit talk them in the wild are just mad hexbear banned them for saying some racist or homophobic shit
Okay. Then why is almost every instance defederating?
Because hexbear is full of socialists and most instances are full of rabid pro-genocide liberals.
Cowbee [he/they]It’s not “almost every instance,” it’s largely Lemmy.world. hexbear defederated from some other instances, but most major instances are, in fact, federated with Hexbear.
Hexbear was not federated with any instances at all for years until about a year ago in the first place.
What is hexbear? I never see it in my feed.
It’s a leftist server. LW defederated from them months ago because they have some, well, interesting takes on things like the war in Ukraine. I can’t recall the exact cited reasons for defederation but I’m sure you could find the defederation post on lemmy world’s announcements page.
da_cow (she/her)Most instance defederated from because they are tankies that talk a lot of bullshit. However, im not entirely sure if I would really call them leftists. More like communistic Authoritarians, yes, communism is something mound mostly in left communities, but not to sure if their takes on human rights for people with other opinions and stuff like that makes them really left.
I’d be comfortable calling many of them red fash but I was trying to be diplomatic.
.world never federated with Hexbear from what I remember. I’m pretty sure they were on the block list before Hexbear got federation completed. There was no single incident as far as I know.
Pandantic [they/them]Wrong. They federated with them then had a big discussion on if they should defederate (you can probably still find it in meta). It’s why I left - I prefer to make my own defederation decisions (and I like Hexbear, and Piracy too).
Source: I was there.
sungloctoYour instance is defederated from them
It’s an instance mostly based around authoritarian communism. They got banished from Reddit quite a bit before the black out.
It's essentially where reddit's old Chapo Trap House community went after reddit banned them in 2020. It started federating with the rest of the fediverse some time last year, but there was a bit of a culture clash between it and some other larger instances and several of them defederated it
To be fair, that’s because liberalism is closer to fascism than any sort of leftism, and many of these instances have a strongly liberal user base because many were with Reddit longer than most leftists were.
Think of it as the Tankie version of The Donald.
Horseshoe theory strikes again.
Political illiteracy strikes again
Yeah, I’m doing my best to learn the concepts but I have a ways to go.
Horseshoe theory is essentially Latte-Flavored horseshit
The horseshoe theory does not enjoy wide support within academic circles; peer-reviewed research by political scientists on the subject is scarce, and existing studies and comprehensive reviews have often contradicted its central premises, or found only limited support for the theory under certain conditions.[6][8]
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...
That’s probably it
Or because it’s older than most of the other instances
like Beehaw
Is there something wrong with beehaw?
No. Just that they’re defederated from lots of big instances so they tend to gave their own communities, which increases their size oh chart
Ah that makes sense
SynapseNothing wrong with beehaw as far as I know, but a while ago they defederated lemmy.world because the instance is to big and not moderated enough, or something like that.
BinetteIf I remember correctly, Hexbear was there before the exodus. So that wouldn’t make sense.
Hexbear is older than most of the fediverse, and didn’t have federation enabled for years. It’s a very self-sufficient community.
kenkenkenGab also was big, but its role for the fediverse wasn’t.
Who or what is/was Gab? 😅
The D QuuuuuillIts like truth social
irelephant [he/him]🍭It was an alternate (right wing “free speech” website) social network. Full of nazis and rascists.
Their apps got banned from the app stores, so they scrapped their original backend (a buggy mess of php) and grafted their ui onto mastodon.
𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮It’s big enough to feel their presence in every corner of the platform
Yeah I can’t say I was bothered when LW defederated. I’ve gotten in way fewer stupid arguments since they did the same with Lemmygrad. IIRC LW didn’t even let hexbear federate in the first place.
I don’t like to make myself blind to the things so to say. I prefer to see everything, every post and comment.
Same here. I’ll curate my personal feed but I’ll occasionally scroll everything just to see what random new instance I’ll find, and to keep myself aware of what the current rhetoric is with the various groups.
Sounds like you waste alot of time with people who don’t deserve it
This maybe a side effect of turning off the points experiment. Instead of getting dopamine from points I get inbox points. So it could be that I subconsciously make my comments in a way that is more likely to attract some kind of response.
ericjmoreySeems like a good strategy would be to not have every post and comment shown to you if your goal is to break your habit of spending too much time on your phone or PC.