Well, you’ve got a 3 year head start as I understand it, no?
Hexbear is at 1.62k MAUs, good for 7th most on Lemmy (ignoring lemmynsfw.com because it’s presumably filled with alts).
But your 3.7 million comments absolutely dwarf every other server. Props on that, but it’s largely representative of past activity.
I believe that your admins are blocking that information from being scraped. If that’s not the case, then it’s probably due to the fact that you guys run a unqiue fork of the Lemmy code.
But it’s certainly not about the timing, afaik.