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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Inui@hexbear.net to c/fediverse@hexbear.net

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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[-] felsiq@lemmy.zip 78 points 4 months ago

Damn I’m shocked how small hexbear is, if I’d had to guess I woulda thought you guys were like 30% of the fediverse. How does 98% of the shitposting and best reaction gifs come from 2% of the user base? Touch grass sometimes, damn lmao

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 69 points 4 months ago

A strong centrally planned shitpost command economy

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago

this whole site is a five year plan to develop productive forces for protracted people's posting

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 62 points 4 months ago

Having an established userbase and actual community beyond the frame of "not reddit" will do that. Other instances are free to develop their own niches, Hexbear has just had a 4 year headstart on all of the Reddit refugees.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 55 points 4 months ago

It's cause this community is only one of very few on the Internet so there's more concentrated time if we want this particular environment

Whereas the user base and culture of most other Lemmy instances can be found in many places

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago

Yeah if you are a lemmy.world user you are probably still spending most your time on Reddit. Very normie tastes and Reddit has better cat gifs

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 31 points 4 months ago

Given how many of them seem to complain about hexbear emotes, its almost like they see the emotes as a negative.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago

And then... and then.... THEY SENT ME A PIG POOPING ON ITS BALLS

incoherent sobbing

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 54 points 4 months ago

We got all the trans people and trans people can't stop posting

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago

This has gotta be by sub count not posts or comments.

Same thing would happen on reddit when they'd post graphs of most "active" subredidts and people would be confused about why 2000 people on a subreddit about an obscure political podcast had more discussion than the NBA subreddit.

[-] Inui@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago

Someone posted this for comments.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 36 points 4 months ago

Our posters are more than 10 times as powerful as theirs

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago

Sometimes I forget our power

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago
[-] WorkingClassCorpse@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

Does anyone with more backend knowledge know if this includes activity prior to the lemmy federation?

I'm really curious if this is really all from the same time period

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago
[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

Literally 10 to 1 let's go.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 40 points 4 months ago

Our posting power levels are just unmatched.

posting

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Chapo.chat/Hexbear were having ancient struggle sessions when Lemmy was new. We posted long, we posted often and we posted in isolation. It's like training in the hyperbolic time chamber for 4 whole years.

They merely adopted shitposting. We were born in it. Moulded by it. We didn't touch grass until we were grown adults.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago

We are powerful

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

I will never stop posting

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Touch grass sometimes, damn lmao

ban-hammer

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

Hexbuiltdifferent

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hexbear presents itself as “an immense accumulation of shitposts." Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a pigpoop

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

it depends how you measure. I don't think the OP of that thread is really picking great measures. But regardless of the measure you pick we are not like, dominantly huge, just very active. (well except total comments, I think we still are 50% bigger than .world on that with our sizable user base and few year headstart.

this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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