Lemmy.world officially has 33k users! 3000 users away from becoming the #1 lemmy instance.
The user count at the moment of this post stands at 33279 and continues to grow!
To take the #1 spot from lemmy.ml (36185 users and no longer growing), lemmy.world just needs about 3000 new users. Given the current growth rate, that should only be another day or two.
We’re building something here! Kudos to lemmy.world admin @[email protected] for all of his hard work keeping this site running smoothly.
There will be another spike on July 1st IMO, that's when reddit 3rd party apps will stop working, after that things should settle, it's possible some people will go back to reddit but things should normalize after that.
Unless some other big corp decides to sh*it on their users like reddit is doing lol.
There's a greater likelihood that the content creators are the ones moving. Most of the reddit power users likely used third party apps. Most of the reddit power users are also the ones who wrote most of the comments worth reading.
So if on june 1 most of the reddit power users flee, reddit's enshitification will have reached a terminal stage. Eventually, reddit will stop having things worth reading, and the lurkers will all move over.
I think we're in for a long decline of reddit a la facebook. However unlike facebook, there isn't a market of old people/foreign markets that can fill their user numbers.
I don't think reddit will ever actually die. I'll probably still even check it for information I need if it's a community that didn't move since I have a few eSports I follow and people post tournament threads on Reddit and no where else. But hoping that people move over still. Unfortunately it's a sub that's been re-opened and lots of users aren't even "redditors". A lot are on Reddit for the specific topic :/
I think the biggest issue to user growth will be getting the word out that this place exists. Like a lot of people, I'm trying to find a more ethical alternative to Reddit and had no idea kbin was a thing.
I'm trying to like kbin, but it's just kludgy in all the wrong places and I unreasonably hate the fact that they decided to call them "Magazines". Eww.
To avoid having to type that in each time, you can enable a top-bar that has a link to "Subscribed", among others: click the gear on the right, and next to "Show top bar", select "Yes".
Maybe there's an easier way to manage this, but I haven't found it.
In addition to the other suggestions, I'd recommend Jerboa for Lemmy if you're on android. I feel like the UI is a little more user friendly and streamlined than the mobile site.
You can switch between Subscribed, Moderated, Favourites and All if you hover over the second button from the right, the one right next to your username.
You can also set the default to showing Subscribed in the settings, so instead you go to kbin.social/all
I'm appreciative that accounts are still open; I came over from Beehaw because I want to experience ALL of what LemmyNet has to offer... We all need to support lemmy.world and LemmyNet - I think we're in the early days of pulling Reddit users... I know that's tough in many ways, but I'm ready to do whatever it takes - including leaning up a LemmyNet domain myself.
Lets g00000!
Same here. Then after doing some more reading I guess it's better if people spread around more. But I can not fault them for doing exactly the same thing.
Yup, I actually have used Mastodon so I know what different instances are, but I made a Lemmy account on a whim and the instance I just happened to land on by chance was this one.
Is there something like a Lemmy guide on how to use it? I'm using jerboa, and finding communities is not a user friendly experience so far. Everything is so separated.
Edit: thanks! I also decided to use "install app" from my browser which just makes an applet on my home screen. For now, this is a much better experience than jerboa. I understand it's very new so I'll definitely keep an eye on development
Communities on lemmy (including ones on lemmy.world) are brand new and are still trying to generate some momentum. Feel free to help contribute by posting and commenting.
Thanks for the install app tip. Seems like it works a bit nicer. Hopefully jerboa or some other apps will be equal to the the 3rd party teddit apps soon
At some point this instance should stop it's indefinite growth IMHO. Centralizing users is not in the ethos of lemmy. I think once it reaches the size of lemmy.ml it should close to new users.
EDIT: Ok, there are a lot of good replies here. Maybe reaching the limit of lemmy.ml shouldnt be the limit, but my overall opinion still stands. This instance should consider a theoretical limit where further growth could be detrimental to the overall network. I think celebrating being the largest instance shouldn't be a metric that is considered good in and of itself.
Then the other instances (including new ones) should step up their recruiting efforts as well.
Also, lemmy.world‘s user base is still nothing compared to Reddit’s 52 million daily users, for example.
Putting a pause on growth over some arbitrary number seems silly at this point, especially when lemmy as a whole is still in its infancy. Putting the cart before the horse to me.
Easy to say, harder to achieve. Join Lemmy alreayd recommends smaller instances, but if you scroll a bit down, there are Popular which most peple will choose as they are very likely to not understand federation.
Hard disagree. Lemmy, much like Mastadon is SO confusing for the mass public to sign up for. If you have an instance that is popular and can handle the load, NEVER turn people away. You just make it more confusing.
If your server can't handle the load, fine. If you want specific users on your instance, fine. But if you're a general Lemmy instance that average non technical redditors want to sign up for, DO NOT TURN THEM AWAY.
Furthermore, Lemmy is just a blip in the radar of Reddit. Worrying about centralization right now is putting the cart before the horse. Let's build up Lemmy whatever way we can.
To play devils advocate, freedom is the ethos of lemmy. Let this instance encourage migration, whilst users are free to access it from any other instance too :)
Hmmm random question... Any idea why I wouldn't be able to join lemmy.world/homeassistant? It's always stuck on "Pending". I tried posting...but also on pending (been like this for about 3 days now)
Tried subscribing to [email protected], got the same error. Kept hitting "Subscribe Pending" to cancel and redo a few times before it finally worked. Not sure if that's specific to c/homeassistant
Small thing... the "subscribe pending" thing is actually incorrect. I have that on a number of subs but I am actually subscribed and they show in my feed! It's just an odd bug, the subscription works!
Because virtually everyone on kbin joins kbin.social.
It’s bigger by a couple hundred users right now than any singular Lemmy server, but Lemmy as a whole is about 4x bigger than kbin. 42k total users for kbin as a whole, 181k for Lemmy.