There used to be the Alexa ranking for websites but it seems to no exist anymore. Elsewhere I only could find for lemmy.world ranking (something like 55000, yay!) but not the actual userbase, and nothing about any other instance (let alone the entire Fediverse).

  • unknownguyfromnowher@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 days ago

    Thank you! This includes also non-lemmy/non-reddit-like sites, such as Mastodon, PeerTube etc, right? I tried to but couldn’t find in your link what is the share of Lemmy instances. EDIT, it took a while to load on my phone but actually there is a “pizza” diagram and lemmy is at about 3% or about 50k MAU as other reply stated. Thanks again!

          • dpflug@kbin.earth
            4·
            2 days ago

            If I recall, the rule of thumb is orders of magnitude. If you have 100 active users, there are probably about 1,000 lurkers, and only 10 substantial users that account for most of your content.

            This is the rule from corporate marketing stats, tho, so who knows if the Fedi works the same.

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
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          2 days ago

          While the user bases of Piefed and Mbin are smaller, they should be included as they federate with Lemmy and interact with our communities.

          The same is true of Mastodon but that’s a lot harder to count since most Mastodon users are not interacting with Lemmy (since it’s a different style of platform - microblog vs link sharing).