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Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] Cubes@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Anyone from Germany care to comment on why this is? Y'all seem to have such a large presence on here compared to others

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

I'm from another nation-oriented instance that has an outsized presence, right next to Duitsland.

My guess is:

  • Germany is a big, populated country
  • People from DACH also gravitate towards feddit.de
  • The culture kinda gives itself to the project
  • The NL and the EU are the main funders of Lemmy
  • The government itself is embracing the Fediverse
[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is DACH?

[–] Skua@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the country codes for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (Deutschland for the D, Confederation Helvetica for the CH). Those are the three countries with a majority of their people speaking German other than Liechtenstein, which is extremely small

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It also means roof and is reminiscent of Dachsprache. One of those unreasonably neat acronyms.

And in particular it's the vehicle registration codes, ISO 3166 for Austria is AT (hence also the TLD).

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