Lemmy active users grew by an astounding 1600% in June
From 2,997 active users across all lemmy instances at the beginning of June, the number increased to 52,797 by June 30th. Source.
An active user on Lemmy is "someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame.” Source. That means lurkers are not counted as active users. There are currently almost 200k total users spread across the top 10 non-bot lemmy instances.
Honestly I am surprised how low the total userbase is. I thought or it felt a bit higher. I switched to reddit when digg went to shit. And now I am here. Here's to another 11 years and hope shit doesn't burn.
This statistic is about active users, which means only people who post or comment (lurkers are not counted). Basically we're talking content generators. If talking about total users, there are almost 200k users spread across the top 10 non-bot lemmy instances and growing fast right now.