• rambling_lunatic
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    I’m doing this on the digital equivalent of the back of a napkin. I have not done any surveys. This makes me curious though. Does Lemmy have polls?

    I believe that’s total users. We can also go with number of comments per week, according to Lemmyverse:

    World - 41,575

    .ee - 8,605

    NSFW - 820

    My own instance - 777

    Here we can also see our leftie friends starting to appear:

    Hexbear - 14,411

    db0 - 2,632

    Lemmygrad - 2,220

    SLRPNK - 1,435

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        I’m not assuming everyone there isn’t socialist. I assume that most aren’t, based on anecdotal experience.

        For some reason lemmyverse, where I got the other stats, doesn’t mention .ml, though it mentions the Enterprise subdomain, which I hear of for the first time.

        If you can find out the number of comments per week on .ml, I would be glad.

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          If you’re just working off of vibes, then what’s the use?

          Either way, I am unsure of the comments per week or active user count of Lemmy.ml, but it is large, larger than Lemmygrad or Blahaj, and probably larger than Hexbear.

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            You yourself said that World is mostly socdems and liberals. Once you’re here for long enough, some patterns become visible.

            Either way, I think I’ll try to cook up a poll so we can measure the class consciousness of Lemmy, haha. Do you think asklemmy will accept such a post?

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              Depends, Lemmy.ml’s? Probably. .world’s? Probably not.

              The point is that Lemmy.world is mostly liberal, but Hexbear, grad, etc. are 100% Socialist. There aren’t 100% liberal instances.

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                I looked up the rules. .ml bans politics. World doesn’t. So the inverse.

                For the purpose of on-the-napkin statistics 98% is good enough.