How many communities are there across all of Lemmy? - eviltoast

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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    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.