A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it’s related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
This is not the place to gossip about other instances.
Based on monthly users, Hexbear should be 7th, but we're listed as 9th.
https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Also, there's no users graph on Hexbear's the-federation.info page, either.
"We were winning in all of the key locations by a lot, actually, and our numbers started miraculously getting whittled away.
The system is rigged against our Hexbears 
We must be suppressed
Repressed, even 
Wait Hexbear is French?
lol are these assholes really that petty or is this a mistake? cause imma bet petty.
I'd be a little surprised if it isn't some bug. We're listed on Feddit's Lemmymap, even though feddit.de pre-emptively defederated from us.
Hexbear also wasn't listed on join-lemmy.org/instances until Nutomic told us that his crawler was hitting a syntax error when trying to parse Hexbear's version, 0.18.3.hexbear.2 at the time.
we don't appear to be implementing nodeinfo which they use to gather metadata
edit: I was wrong: https://hexbear.net/nodeinfo/2.0.json
