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Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:

lemmy.world: 19516
lemm.ee: 3779
lemmy.ml: 2970
sh.itjust.works: 2355
feddit.de: 2293

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

This graph is actually wrong, lemmy.ml doesn't have open sign ups, it just appears to because the Lemmy software doesn't accurately distinguish between open and closed registrations, it only distinguishes between open registrations and application-based registrations. If registrations are closed it'll look just like they are open, but we'll just give an error message when you try to sign up which is incredibly deceiving.

I filed an issue to fix this discrepancy on their GitHub.

Another issue with this graph is that it shows lemmy.world as American but it's actually hosted in Finland.