join-lemmy.org regularly crawls all active Lemmy instances to keep the instance list updated. Additionally it also collects data from all Lemmy communities. The data is now publicly available in the following git repository:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-statistics

Check the readme for details about the available data. Interestingly the numbers are quite different from other websites:

	join-lemmy.org	fediverse.observer	fedidb.com
Monthly Active Users	42.170	36.336	50.063
Instances	512	376	446

Here are some ideas what to do with the data:

Recreate the Lemmymap, graphically showing the connections or defederations between instances.
Render graphs, which could be added directly to join-lemmy.org (#532).
Investigate what is causing the different numbers shown above.
Run various types of analysis, like this one done by @malsadev.
Build a tool to help users discover interesting and relevant communities.

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[–] A_A@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

42 Monthly Active Users ... that's the final answer to life, the universe and a verything 😋
... i am surprised, i expected the figures to be in the thousands 🤣

Edit :

Seriously now, new standard :

. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
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The 22nd General Conference on Weights and Measures[27] declared in 2003, "The symbol for the decimal marker shall be either the point on the line or the comma on the line." It further reaffirmed,[27]

Numbers may be divided in groups of three in order to facilitate reading; neither dots nor commas are ever inserted in the spaces between groups

That is, "1 000 000 000" is preferred over "1,000,000,000" or "1.000.000.000".
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[–] carrotfox@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Not 42, it's 42k
https://join-lemmy.org/instances

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Europeans don't get enough shit for writing numbers like that(jk).

[–] martinborgen@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most countries in the world use decimal comma IIRC

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Number of countries using comma may be more, but as India and China and Nigeria use dot, the number of dot user people may be higher.

Source

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Bro India and China use the comma.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay so ... i made an edit to clarify what was the joke and what is the new standard way of writing numbers 👍😁

[–] carrotfox@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

Sorry! Whoosh for me

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

there are tens of you!

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

42 000.²⁵ = 4 20 00.²⁵ users 🥳 !