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Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3804525

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think one reason is the large number of German users on the Internet. With around 100 million speakers, German is the second most spoken native language in the West after English.

According to the application texts, many users seem to come from various podcasts. We are also "endorsed" by one of the largest German-language subreddits on its front page (r/ich_iel). Our users have also started to watermark their memes, which occasionally attracts new users. Feddit also made it into an article in a popular IT magazine (heise).

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Wait, isn't French second with 210k?~~

~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Europe#List_of_languages ~~

Sorry, misread, you are correct about native speakers!