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
Past 150k user now!
Que bueno ver y participar, después de varios años casi en el olvido. Y que sigan sumando…
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.
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.
Glad to be apart of a growing community. After that bullshit Reddit pulled, I’m happy to be here 🎉🥳
Fantastic, keep up the good work everyone!
As one of those new users, I’m loving the potential of Lemmy and I’m enjoying finding my way around, but it definitely needs some UX enhancements, especially around federated communities.
Pretty grand, don’t hesitate to allow the tamest of ads to help maintain things!
This is amazing news. I’m thinking we’ve reached critical mass where it’s going to be self sustaining and worth using.
40 million more to go! \o/
The site seems to be down?
💀
Beats me, I’m new here too
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
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.
Being able to defederate from an instance is the very definition of the fediverse. You are not beholden to a single provider
So it’s about the size of a smallish-medium subreddit, then?
Edit: 10% of the size of r/rpg. Or about half the size of r/tarot.
How much of reddit’s userbase is bots?
I honestly don’t know. Do you? If you can tell me what the percentage is, I can adjust the figures to take that into account.
How long have these subs existed? I doubt that either one grew by 150k users within the first week after being created, and the “reddit exodus” has only just begun… if this trend continues, lemmy.world won’t be at “just” 150k anymore in a month or two.
Not to mention a lot of those subs were “default subs” (subs that new users were automatically subscribed to when they signed up for Reddit) before Reddit got rid of those.
Both of these subs are 15 years old.
To be clear, I’m just presenting raw data, not making any inferences from it.
I just joined today. Taking refuge from Reddit. I hope this community builds up!
I haven’t used Reddit in years, but I moved here because my brother, a regular Redditor, informed me of this neat alternative and I felt like checking it out. Hopefully many are doing the same. Otherwise I lurk in old-school forums. I prefer the Reddit model though, so I quite like this Fediverse.
it’s pretty nice here i think. it feels more personal than on reddit.
Five of those were from me. Hedging my bets across multiple instances. Can’t imagine I’m the only one?
Not at all, just started on this one in case my main goes down.
Five?? I just have an nsfw and a sfw one.
Why bother hedging?
As an example, Beehaw just de-federated from lemmy.world and from sh.itjust.works. But since I primarily drop anchor at startrek.website (and since I’ve replicated my subscriptions across all my accounts), I just flip over to that account and still have access to everything.
Oh? Why did beehaw defederate? Does that mean beehaw is cut off from everyone else?
Expected reasons. Federated systems make moderation more difficult, compounded with poor availability of moderation tools on the platform today. https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Ugh, Beehaw denied my registration so I guess just can’t get their content anymore.
Damn, I just assumed they were screening to ensure real users acting in good faith. Didn’t expect them to actually be rejecting people.
I think they’re pretty serious about the last essay part.
I expect an even larger jump when on July 1s and onwards, that is where a lot of growth will come from.
This. Like the apps are still there functioning. I uninstalled Boost and Apollo as my thumb kept clicking on them…
god it’s terrifying and so true. I didn’t realize how addicated I was to apollo until muscle memory just kept clicking the damn app!
I ended up having to rearrange my phone layout slightly, putting Mlem (how I’m accessing Lemmy) where I used to have Apollo. I did the same thing with Ivory (Mastodon) taking Twitter’s spot too
