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Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:
- lemmy.world: 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
- lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
- beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
- sh.itjust.works: 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
- feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
- lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
- lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
- lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
- lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
- programming.dev: 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users
Why is that?
Well I would recommend it since it works, hence the name, shitjustworks lol.
In all seriousness, you can't start a new platform and simultaneously expect to exclude large segments of potential users. Shitjustworks seems to toe the line better than other instances. They ban spam/bots while still allowing most content.
Generally, I recommend avoiding the top two instances if you are considering creating an account, and I would recommend avoiding beehaw for other reasons. So that leaves you at shitjustworks.
I'd second the recommendation to avoid BeeHaw. That's where I started when I left Reddit. It's not bad per se there. I wouldn't say that they are rude or anything. The big problem is that they've decided to defederate from many other Lemmy instances.
In case anyone doesn't understand federation, imagine if you signed up for an email address and then realized that, because the person running the email service decided so, you can't email anyone at Gmail.com or Hotmail.com. If you have nobody you want to email there (no Lemmy communities you want to interact with there), then it's not a problem. However, if you decide you really want to join a community there, it gets difficult.
I left BeeHaw and signed up for Lemmy.world.
I don't understand the big push to defederate from other instances when individual users can block instances as they please.
Individuals can't block whole instances yet (apart from via a browser extension), once that feature arrives there will be a lot less call for defederation I expect.
I didn't know that. Thank you for clarifying.