Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.
🎉 🎉🎉🎉
GET READY FOR JULY 1st
Update: We are now past 140,000 users. Growth is still accelerating.
When I checked yesterday it was 91,000 users, it’s now 109,000 and counting up fast!
100,000 🎉
Stats can be found here: https://the-federation.info/platform/73 - this site has been hugged to death for the moment.
Stats can also be found here: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
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I love being a part of stuff like this.
It took reddit years and years to get to what it is today (well … a week ago), and I’m excited to be a part of something like that again.
Most importantly, contribute to the discussion and start discussion threads!!
If everyone sits around watching the party, refugees are gonna come, take a look around, see all the “yeah we beat reddit” posts and nothing else, get bored and leave.
It’s all of our jobs to build this place up to what Reddit used to be. Definitely attainable. My only concern is that the more technical part of Lemmy (federated and what not) will shrink the site’s critical mass and thus prevent it from being a major player on the internet.
But then again, that excuse was heard back when the current status quo of websites were taking off.
I think it needs a critical mass to keep enough content flowing, but being a major player on the Internet isn’t as desirable as it once was. A few million active users would be plenty. Once you get to Reddits size, undesirables are attracted… Companies want to advertise, governments take notice, news companies comment about everyday BS, and “investors” want to buy it and find ways to monetizing.
Good point. Once a website is too noticeable, it is much more scrutinized. This has been seen countless times and its much harder to have the free flow of information when everyone is in on it. Then again though, that’s why there are hundreds of instances, you can drop ship in the mainstream one and take a quieter approach.
Don’t forget scammers. The sub I was a regular in had 900k+ members and there were scam bots trying to farm karma with reposts, selling fake merch with stolen art etc. constantly, sometimes multiple at once. That basically never happened to the smaller subs I regularily visited, as they apparently weren’t “interesting” enough for those people. …and I have the feeling that this issue will get only worse with the planned reddit changes and whatnot, but that’s no longer my concern.
They said the same about crypto, but look at it now
Crypto is sullied by the profit motive, which Lemmy lacks; I have high hopes for the fediverse
Speaking the truth there mate
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, it’s still a niche interest and carries a lot of negative stigma, much of which is rightly deserved
Nice to see the growth! I came over from reddit, hearing about Lemmy when the blackout was being planned. Lurked a few days and finally joined today! I really like Lemmy.
I’ve been on reddit for a looong time (arrived there during the migration from Digg) and have seen other migrations from reddit and this one seems most successful and diverse. Way to go reddit for pissing off thousands of subreddits instead of just one or two. The upside of that for us is a variety of communities created in our new home so there’s much less of a reason to go back to reddit. Many thanks to everyone creating, contributing, modding, and admining here!
Aside from maybe a few niche subreddits until they find their way over here or I find a replacement community somewhere else, as of now I don’t plan on going back to reddit. I haven’t been there since the day before the blackout. If I’m really curious about what’s going on at reddit, I just check teddit as long as it’s available.
Not gonna lie in the last 3 days I’ve commented and had good engagement than I’ve had for months on Reddit. Also day 3 with no reddit for me.
Glad to be apart of a growing community. After that bullshit Reddit pulled, I’m happy to be here 🎉🥳
We are ahead of the game that’s forsure. 5 years from now we will think back and feel like the first pioneers.
Past 150k user now!
I am happy that Lemmy is receiving more attention, but I suspect that these numbers are misleading, some people have more than one account (not my case!) and how many of them were active in the last 30 days?
I can’t answer how many different accounts one person has on avg, but I can tell you that about 23k accounts have been active in the last month.
Lemmy will have inflated user numbers, because you need multiple accounts due to defederation issues. It will probably settle down in the future, but for now unavoidably.
That’s over 9000!
I was a reddit user for a long time but I feel at home here. I’m happy with how easy every thing is to use. Good luck.
I actually like the interface a LOT better than (old) Reddit. I refused to use the new interface because “yuck!” and old.reddit.com doesn’t have a “dark mode,” so I view this as an upgrade, visually (along with other UX aspects). I’m definitely sticking!
RES has (had?) a dark mode for old reddit.
yep it does. RES was such a great addon made by such cool people. Cant wait to see the kind of things those people are making for Lemmy.
That is really good to see.
123000 now.
132,124!
Que bueno ver y participar, después de varios años casi en el olvido. Y que sigan sumando…
I’m a new user and I can’t really use it on mobile yet, kind of confusing
Jerboa seems to be doing a nice job.
And it’s constantly improving too! I just submitted a change to add better localization support and a Japanese translation.
Have you looked for Jerboa for Lemmy in you apps store? That’s what I’m using, for better or worse.
I tried it but didn’t like it, and was a bit buggy. I ended up installing the website as app, that works okay.
I use F-Droid anyway, and imo everyone should, so I think its fine
I started by using Jeroba and I’m having a very close experience to reddit (at least the one I have in boost). I won’t download the official app so once boost goes offline it’s over for me. Lemmy could sell a “great migration of 2023” badge to help with the upgrading costs.
Ditto. I’m going to miss boost. It just worked. I’m hoping they come do something here.
I’m in the same boat, need something else to fill my daily commute
Some thoughts
- So nodes and instants are interchangeable terms
- wth 140k? I thought we were around the 30k mark or something. Great!
- Lemmy.ml is bigger than .world but world has a lot more active users? Interesting. I think .world will be known in the future as the redfuge instant.
- Beehaw defederated? That kinda defeats the point of the fediverse, doesn’t it? I’d be a little mad if some moderator could make that call for me if I was registered to Beehaw
Being able to defederate from an instance is the very definition of the fediverse. You are not beholden to a single provider
You are right, but nevertheless as a user of said instance I’d be a tad annoyed. But I guess there’s nothing holding one back to register on another instance if that happens.
Beehaw will certainly federate back when the problem at LW with trolls/fascists/racists/etc will be properly modded. The problem for beehaw is that LW is a victim of its success and beehaw is just protecting itself. Once properly moderated, beehaw will open its arms to LW.
Some growth pains but I’m managing. :) When I upvote, it looks like the vote is undone after a few seconds but it looks like it actually sticks when I reload the page. Same with commenting. Looks like it takes a long while even if it in reality happens more quickly. I think there are some issues with their websockets code or something but the important thing is that it works. :)
