How many communities are there across all of Lemmy?

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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1984@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 3y

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.

luthis@lemmy.nz · 17 pts · 3y (5 replies)

My guess is about 28,047.

mookulator@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

Well would you look at that

wilberfan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (3 replies)

That feels like a lot. How does it compare to, say, Reddit?

j_roby@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Boklukchia@artemis.camp · 3 pts · 3y

We’re almost there!

luthis@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 3y

In 2022, there were 140,000 subreddits.

Blaze@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

Blaze@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)
CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 3y

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

ClarkFlankblast@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y

350?