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I don’t even know how to begin to figure this out. How many communities are there across every instance (or even just among those that are federated at all)?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be honest, 99% of those have no activity.

People created communities so they would exist in case there was a need.

It's better to look at how many posts and comments Lemmy has to understand "activity" . I wish the "active user" counts included people who lurk and just upvote / downvote, because most users are lurkers and they don't show up in the stats.

We are probably at least double the amount of users that show as active right now.