The biggest surprise for me was the https://hexbear.net count, an instance I hardly interact with.
beehaw.org | hexbear.net | lemdro.id | lemmy.blahaj.zone | lemmy.dbzer0.com | lemmy.ml | lemmy.one | lemmy.world | lemmynsfw.com | sh.itjust.works | sopuli.xyz | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Community Count | 6 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Community Subscriber Count | 133450 | 663204 | 17052 | 15907 | 53006 | 356460 | 16257 | 851950 | 33586 | 16006 | 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")
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I knew hexbear was big but not that big
Emmie@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s big enough to feel their presence in every corner of the platform
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You’re not really using the fediverse until you’ve been told that you’ll get the bullet, too.
SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Join an instance that’s defederated from them. I haven’t seen their nonsense in months.
OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I mean, I don’t know enough about North Korea here but Lenin decriminalized homosexuality in like 1920. Stalin recriminalized it in 1932-33 but for a bit there the Soviet Union was the most LGBT friendly country in the world.
Sootius@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I cannot facepalm hard enough when I see lgbt people (or anyone) who praise western genocidal military alliances either. What’s your point?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 months ago
That’s why I’m glad my instance blocked them.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 3 months ago
They have less than 500 MAU. It’s just a bunch of losers yelling at each other.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Interesting, I expected them to be much larger
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 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.
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 months ago
It’s less that they’re big, but old.
WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 3 months ago
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.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What about blahaj?
Alk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What is hexbear? I never see it in my feed.
sunglocto@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Your instance is defederated from them
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s an instance mostly based around authoritarian communism. They got banished from Reddit quite a bit before the black out.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
ByteMe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I haven’t even heard of it xd
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I only scroll all for now… Hexbear is the only thing I have blocked. I just got tired of trolly garbage.
Kroxx@lemm.ee 3 months ago
. world is defederated with hexbear iirc
kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Gab also was big, but its role for the fediverse wasn’t.
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
OFL, what is going on with this hexbear? And is there any reason behind the name?
WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 3 months ago