Looking at recent cohorts, the top 5 for each:
2022:
1) oldtimer 3,196
2) Snow Belt Republican 1,339
3) Liminal Trans Girl leet (1337)
4) Reactionary Libertarian 1,042
5) middleroad 911
2023:
1) The Economy is Getting Worse 3,650
2) Aurelius2 2,080
3) WalterWhite 1,990
4) wnwnwn 1,257
5) BigZuck08 1,091
2024:
1) mjba257 130
2) themaninthejinnahcap 83
3) TechbroMBA 73
4) anbarret 47
5) Irenaeus of Smyrna 21
Remarkable how much more active 2023's cohort is than 2022's. There's several posters with over 1k posts that aren't listed there like Oleg, Electric Circus, and cherry mandarin. Meanwhile I don't think I saw anyone fewer than 200 posts below middleroad
A lot of people involved with this kind of stuff don't really register here. I only found this place via Tim