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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:

  • lemmy.world: 19516
  • lemm.ee: 3779
  • lemmy.ml: 2970
  • sh.itjust.works: 2355
  • feddit.de: 2293

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[–] SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It says a significant chunk of their funding comes from users. Where does the other funding come from?

[–] jameseb@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Good to see donations are keeping the place afloat!

[–] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is github sponsorship? Are they advertising on that note instance?

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 8 points 1 year ago

GitHub sponsorships are a way of donating to programmers. In addition to hosting lemm.ee, sunaurus has made significant contributions to Lemmy's codebase. (In my opinion, he is by far the most skilled programmer working on Lemmy.)