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I don’t even know how to begin to figure this out. How many communities are there across every instance (or even just among those that are federated at all)?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be honest, 99% of those have no activity.

People created communities so they would exist in case there was a need.

It's better to look at how many posts and comments Lemmy has to understand "activity" . I wish the "active user" counts included people who lurk and just upvote / downvote, because most users are lurkers and they don't show up in the stats.

We are probably at least double the amount of users that show as active right now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well would you look at that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That feels like a lot. How does it compare to, say, Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We’re almost there!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

In 2022, there were 140,000 subreddits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago