(De)centralisation of Lemmy communities in numbers
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/893150
Lemmy instances by number of communities with over 1 thousand (5 thousands, 10 thousands) of monthly users:
Lemmy.world: 122, 30 over 5K, 12 over 10K, 1 over 20K (Technology, Lemmy Shitpost, News, Politics, World News, Memes, Comic Strips, Microblog Memes, Ask Lemmy, Political Memes, Linux Memes, No Stupid Questions)
Lemmy.ml: 30, 7, 4 (Memes, World News, Ask Lemmy, Linux)
sh.itjust.works: 11, 5, none (White People Twitter, Games, Greentext, Funny, NonCredibleDefense)
Hexbear, 12, none, none (Chapo Trap House, The Dunk Tank, generic named communities)
Lemmy NSFW 10
Sopuli 8, 1 (Memes, Ukraine, Steam Deck, Meow_IRL, AnarchyChess, Aneurysm Posting, NYT gift articles, Map Enthusiasts)
Lemm.ee 7 (Movies and TV, Cyanide and Happiness, Artporn, YUROP, Movies, BrainWorms, Conservative)
Beehaw 6 (Technology, Gaming, FOSS, Politics, World News, Humor)
Lemmy.ca 6 (PC Gaming, Canada, Nostalgia, Cool Guides, Offbeat, Men's Liberation)
Midwest.social 5, 1 (The Onion, Lord of the memes, Memes, The Right Can't Meme, Religious Cringe)
SLRPNK 5, 1 (Climate, Memes, Solarpunk, Antiwork, tombstone of „TwoXChromosomes”)
/0 4, 1, 1 (Piracy, ADHD memes, Lefty Memes, Stable Diffusion Art)
Feddit.de 4, 1 (Europe, ich_iel, DACH, Deutschland)
Mander 3, 1, 1 (Science Memes, Science, Astronomy)
Programming.dev 3, 1 (Programmer Humor, Programming, Comics)
Lemmy.zip 3 (Global News, Technology, Gaming)
Feddit.uk 3 (UK, UK politics, Casual UK)
Lemmygrad 3 (GenZedong, World News, Comradeship)
Blåhaj Lemmy 1, 1, 1 (196)
Star Trek Website 2 (RISA, Star Trek)
ani.social 2 (Anime, Animemes)
Lemmon 1, 1 (Tails)
TTRPG Network 1, 1 (RPGMemes)
Lemdroid 1 (Android)
Reddthat 1 (Memes)
KDE 1 (KDE)
Futurology.today 1 (Futurology)
Aussie Zone 1 (Australia)
Lemmy.one 1 (Privacy Guides)
Lemmy Fan 1 (Weird News)
Diagon Lemmy 1 (The Leaky Cauldron)
tchncs 1 (Right to Repair)
Smeargle 1 (mirror of Hacker News)
- Lemmy.world has got a plurality of 1K/mo Lemmy communities. (122 vs 140) Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml together make a majority of 1K/mo Lemmy communities (152)
- Lemmy.world has got a majority of 5K/mo Lemmy communities (30 vs 22)
- Lemmy.world has got a majority of 10K/mo Lemmy communities (12 vs 7)
- Lemmy.world has got only 20K/Mo Lemmy community
- Only 1K/mo national "sublemmies" are Canadian, Australian, British and German. Only non-English 1K/mo "sublemmies" are German.
Relevant: https://reddthat.com/comment/8316861 tl;dr. The current centralisation results in a lemmy-verse theoretical maximum for of 1 activity per 0.3 seconds, or 200 activities per minute. As total transfer of packets is just under 0.3 seconds between EU -> AU and back.
Edit: can't math when sleepy
Oh, now that's fascinating, and explains some of the issues we're having. Our hosting provider had some issues, so all of our queues were delayed. It took us a while to recover, but we got through all of the outstanding queues, except for lemmy.world, which still has a huge amount outstanding. And I'm guessing that's because we're processing them only slightly faster than new ones enter the queue!
Since the 11th @ 9am UTC, LW has seen a 2 fold increase of activities. If my insider knowledge is right (and math) it's 7req/s average up from 3req/s.
Lucky for both of us we are not subbed to every community on LW but I think we are subbed just enough to be affected.