Just wanted to share a thread for those who don’t regularly venture out of the bear site. Can’t cross-post since it’s defederated. It’s small but has some numbers about community counts, active users, etc and links to more info from https://lemmyverse.net/. Thought it was notable that Hexbear shows up no matter how you sort it.

OP image is community count sorted by active users in the last month.

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  • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]
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    4111 months ago

    Lemmy.ml is the instance the lemmy creators own. They are also communists but its become a general instance (filled with liberals) since the reddit exodus. Lemmy.world is just reddit but with less users and is unfortuantly the largest instance by far. They “premptively defederated us, as a last resort” before we even enabled federation. sore-loser

    • ch1l
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      2711 months ago

      Ahh, so ml likes HB? I’m not super plugged into drama usually, but the libs make my blood boil. I had to uninstall Reddit, at this point it’s literally all just us propaganda.

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        2211 months ago

        I think ML are radical centrists who just want all teams to have fun and are ideologically opposed to censorship and defederation. The other instances are libs who start banning and blocking as soon as they hear something about communism that they don’t understand

        • ch1l
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          1911 months ago

          lol libs will do anything besides reading theory… they’re like ideologically opposed to reading anything that isn’t self help garbage.

        • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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          1911 months ago

          Desslines has stated that they believe instances that jump to defederation of larger instances are dooming themselves, and they want Lemmy.ml to be the “face” of Lemmy.

        • ch1l
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          11 months ago

          What’s lemmygrad, just other marxist community?

          • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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            2011 months ago

            HB is anti-sectarian, grad is strictly ML and generally more “serious.” HB is more fun to browse so I picked it over grad when branching from my older ML account.

          • Inui [comrade/them]OP
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            11 months ago

            It’s a more explicitly Marxist-Leninist instance instead of left unity like Hexbear and has more serious comms than shit posting.