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I was recently inspired by this post made by @mookulator@mander.xyz to get the subscription statistics for a list of Lemmy instances.

I did this by scraping the data from the Communities tab from every Lemmy instance listed on the awesome-lemmy-instances from GitHub. So all of this data is available publicly.

I separated it as follows:

Local instance: The instance that the data is being scraped from

Community: The name of the community

Community instance: The instance that the community is hosted on

Local Subscription count: The subscription count of that community coming from the local instance

If the Local instance is equal to the Community instance the Subscription count is actually the total number of users subscribed to that community across the Threadiverse.

Since I was web scraping these websites the data is a bit rough because I had to convert stuff like 42K into 42000 so it isn’t going to be 100% accurate.

Also, this scrape doesn’t include instances that weren’t on the list when I pulled the CSV and alternatives to Lemmy like Kbin or Mastodon users subscribing to Lemmy communities.

This was gathered over the course of a day starting from 12:00 PM EST to about 7:00 PM EST today.

The data could be better if I used the API or added the information from lemmyverse.net on the total subscriber counts but I spent a lot of time on this as is and don’t know how to use the API.

I hope someone uses this to make a data visualization of subscription patterns for Lemmy because I would really like to see that.

P.S. On the post that inspired this post, there was some discussion about whether Lemmy users would like this to be done. So if you guys don’t like it I will delete the data.

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    1 year ago

    Edit: Dang, the pictures didn’t come through very readable. Sorry. I’m going to leave it like this for now. It’s late and I need to go to bed.

    Edit 2: It looks like the pictures can be enlarged for better viewing in Jerboa but not on desktop. Weird.

    Interesting. I pulled your .csv into a spreadsheet to tinker a bit (though I really should be sleeping right now). I’m not entirely sure what to do with it, but here are a few basic charts I threw together for kicks. Maybe someone more code savvy than me can create an interactive tool to sift through all the data.

    Most subscribed communities across Lemmy:

    Here’s a comparison of where the subscribers originate for two of the big technology communities. What are all those lemmy.world users doing subscribed to a Beehaw community? Maybe those are lemmy.world that had subscribed before Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world?