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[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Do note that this doesn't actually account for an accurate total of Lemmy instances across the Fediverse. It is a hardcoded list of instances.

Edit: Correction, its a generated list of instances (that gets copied into Jerboa) that have a MAU amount of more than 50 as pointed out below.

[–] testAccount@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That list gets generated based on the lemmy instances tracked by fediverse.observer site that have a monthly active user amount greater than 50.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 2 points 1 year ago

Fair point! I'll update my comment to reflect that.

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, okay. So how many are there?

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My favorite way of discovering new communities / instances on Lemmy is through Lemmyverse and it shows 1,378 instances at the time of my writing!

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I think 10 is enough for me.