The biggest surprise for me was the https://hexbear.net count, an instance I hardly interact with.

Community Count Community Subscriber Count
beehaw.org 6 133450
hexbear.net 33 663204
lemdro.id 1 17052
lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 15907
lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 53006
lemmy.ml 14 356460
lemmy.one 1 16257
lemmy.world 39 851950
lemmynsfw.com 2 33586
sh.itjust.works 1 16006
sopuli.xyz 1 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”)

EDIT: The data if you sort by active users last month:

Community Count Community Active Month Count
awful.systems 1 2616
feddit.org 2 7363
feddit.uk 2 5289
hexbear.net 1 2952
lemdro.id 1 2898
lemm.ee 3 8898
lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 11422
lemmy.ca 3 14910
lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 13752
lemmy.ml 10 54949
lemmy.world 57 338384
lemmy.wtf 1 3602
lemmy.zip 3 12020
mander.xyz 1 11469
sh.itjust.works 5 37365
slrpnk.net 3 10897
sopuli.xyz 2 10070
ttrpg.network 1 4107

Community Count:

Community Users:

    • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      205·
      3 months ago

      I only scroll all for now… Hexbear is the only thing I have blocked. I just got tired of trolly garbage.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
      173·
      3 months ago

      Most instances block them so most communities on those instances won’t see them either. Once you find certain communities on instances that don’t block them you suddenly see half the comments being from hexbear, which likely quickly makes you block those communities fairly quickly.

        • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
          182·
          3 months ago

          You could go visit hexbear and you’d find out pretty quickly. It’s definitely not for everyone.

        • Kroxx@lemm.eeEnglish
          113·
          3 months ago

          Other comments hit on this but I’ll add a little more. There is a good bit of trolls/trolling, some extreme views, and authoritarian government praise. Things like that.

          Lemm.ee (my instance) is still federated so I see hexbear post/ comments. It’s definitely a more problematic instance imo.

            • BlackDragon@slrpnk.netEnglish
              3·
              3 months ago

              You only got replies from hexbear haters so let me balance it out a bit. Hexbear is by far the most LGBT+ friendly instance in the fediverse and has a supermajority of queer users. They’re aggressively anti-bigotry in all its forms and are extremely happy to educate and engage in discussions as long as you approach them in good faith.

              Most people who go out of their way to shit talk them in the wild are just mad hexbear banned them for saying some racist or homophobic shit

                • BlackDragon@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  Because hexbear is full of socialists and most instances are full of rabid pro-genocide liberals.

                • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  It’s not “almost every instance,” it’s largely Lemmy.world. hexbear defederated from some other instances, but most major instances are, in fact, federated with Hexbear.

                  Hexbear was not federated with any instances at all for years until about a year ago in the first place.