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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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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lemmy.world is hosted in the USA? I wonder how long til it gets raided by the feds

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago

It's not, it's in Europe

[–] poVoq 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that is an artifact of their Cloudflare use. The main server is AFAIK in a Hetzner data center in Helsinki, Finland.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So its just proxied by the feds

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would it be raided by the feds?

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't it?

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

? I don't see why reason why it would? Do you want to actually explain your reasoning?