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RESULTS: Fedecan 2025 Instance Census

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RESULTS: Fedecan 2025 Instance Census - Lemmy.ca

After taking a lot longer than I was expecting to, I’m pleased to announce the results of the census we ran earlier this year! This year, the results are on our website instead of being copied into a post here. I’m hoping that this is better since the website charts are interactive, with additional details if you click/tap on something. They also support dark and light mode. The full results contain discussion on how we processed the results, any assumptions we made, and all of our recommendations for how to improve this process for next time. fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults [https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults] If you have any issues with the site, let us know and we will take a look. I can also add screenshots in the comments so that people reading the comments don’t have to search through the article for context. ## A few sample charts Section 1.5: Internet Speed [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/4dcdb8c9-9d08-4d3a-90d5-05d758e5850e.png] Section 1.8: Most common pets [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/9102834e-1f43-4c6e-8683-3d1950526911.png] Yes, the 200 cherry shrimp were all from one response. Section 2.01: Age Distribution [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/6e5a7cef-6d65-4b75-9a78-5be175f2c06e.png] Section 2.08: Education [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/aea142c3-a2ea-48c6-a8ac-8607c364b626.png] Section 2.10: Desktop Operating System [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/2248e31f-562f-491e-8821-d3773db32ebd.png] The question on specific distro / version had a pretty low sample size, but you can find that too on the article. Section 3.1.08: Most popular desktop UIs [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/ed5cc61f-f618-4413-88cc-55dc58795633.png] Section 3.1.10: Most Popular Mobile Apps [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/73065bd6-15a4-43e6-8dd1-c8b072335686.png] Section 3.1.13: How often people use centralized forums/threaded platforms [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/ae16f31b-2cf6-4639-b85c-835b896ca98d.png] Section 3.2.05: What people post on Pixelfed [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/29f3f49f-61f1-4732-9aef-986cabc8a1c8.png] Section 3.2.06: What people follow on Pixelfed [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/33456353-29ed-4ccc-937e-aa5e657137c6.png] Section 3.3.04: Donations (of time or money) [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/478bdb26-e682-4b88-b54e-e2b0030bec9b.png] Section 4.4: Favourite genre of music [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/9cd78769-8815-4bd6-b71a-1d4af40aa278.png] [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/90597342-886e-4b79-a38f-766ad39a0199.png]

Apr 4 at 4:14amWeb
Show threadAugust27thApr 4
What a neat thing. Thank you for doing this
Show threadIronKrillApr 4
God bless the owner(s) of the 200 cherry shrimp.
Show threadIronKrillApr 4
It’s not me
Show threadsnoonsApr 4
Show threadTheFeatureCreatureApr 4
I love my cherry shrimp.
Show threadⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔Apr 4
Thank you for this. 💜
Show threadNik282000Apr 4
As a 38 year old, cat owning, Linux user. I fell like I fit in.
Show thread[object Object]Apr 5
We are legion!
Show threadTroyApr 9
Damn, are you me?
Show threadAFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)Apr 4
I feel like the number of people who own a particular kind of pet would be more interesting than the total number of each pet type owned. Like I’m assuming there is a very small number of users who own shrimp, and I’d rather see that number than have shrimp be second on the list.
Show threadOtterApr 4
Fair enough, let me see what I can do
Show threadOtterApr 5

Here is a new graph, we will get it added to the live site later tonight. Along with some errors in the section numbers that I just noticed

Show threadAFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)Apr 5

Awesome, that’s much more interesting to me.

Surprised I was one of only 4 with a bird.

Show threadAlbbiApr 7
Birds are fun, but too noisy for me. That’s why I have 2 Huskies. The one husky was cursed with reverse and is silent unless the other husky is gone. Won’t join in howling sessions. The other husky is just a heckin’ good boi and only barks at intruders and howls only when I do.
Show threadAFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)Apr 7

Got lucky, usually huskies are noisier then birds. With birds, it really depends on the type. I had a cockatiel, and they aren’t especially noisy. Mine mostly just made noise if she wanted attention and she could hear me in the other room.

Sadly she died the day before yesterday. She was completely normal the day before that, but when I uncovered her cage that morning she seemed much more listless than normal. Decided to hang out with her after I got dressed and stuff, and when I went to get her she was dead at the bottom of the cage. She was 17, so likely just age related issues, but very sad.

Show threadi_stole_ur_tacoApr 5
This is cherry shrimp erasure!
Show thread[object Object]Apr 5

This is neat!

I’m pleasantly surprised there’s a lot of variation among the users. Different education, music tastes, age ranges, browsing habits (and probably, different linux distros lol)

Side note: Now I feel like a moocher not donating yet. I should get on that…

Show threadOtterApr 6

I can confirm that there is variation there too

Show threadAlbbiApr 7

The Linux distro breakdown is on the full census page. This post was just a sampler.

Now I’m curious who the other Garuda user is. And yeah I feel like a moocher as well.

2025 Instance Census Results

Results and visualizations from the 2025 Fedecan Instance Census

Show threadAshwagApr 7
It would be cool to see an income demographic question.
Show threadOtterApr 9
That could be cool! One caveat is that the census is open to users from anywhere in the world, and so it might be harder to visualize those differences in currency, income, and spending power. If we do add that question, maybe we would need to split it up by region or compare it with another factor in a scatterplot