Lemmy active users grew by an astounding 1600% in June
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.
We're really building something here!
EDIT: Looking for a lemmy app? Here's a whole list: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
Registration and discovery needs to be simplified tremendously for long term viability. But it’s a good start.
From the outside looking in, the whole model seemed needlessly complicated. So it’s like there’s a LOT of reddit.coms over here? But they’re all the same? But also different? What’s the difference? Which one do I sign up on?
But then I get here and realized it doesn’t really matter that much, since you can more or less use all of them regardless of which one you sign up for.
Something about the way users try to communicate what Lemmy/Fediverse IS, is the complicated part. It’s like everyone wants to jump straight to the more technical details behind how the model works; which probably scares off a lot of the people who just want a place to pop in and talk about their hobbies.
I just told my fairly tech-unsavvy partner the email analogy:
You sign up on Google, I sign up on yahoo, my bro-in-law runs his own from a server in his house. We can all email each other and the email looks mostly the same no matter who reads it, but yahoo isn't Google isn't my bro-in-law. Lemmy = email in general, yahoo = lemmy.ml, Google = lemmy.world, etc.
She immediately got it and has an account on some instance and has subscribed to a bunch of places.
Yeah, there should be simple "how and where do I sign up and find my favourite communities". I feel like there is lots of tech talk here because lots of tech stuff needs to happen before these sites are ready for the full moderation suit and for supporting the most basic aspects of Reddit communities (like flairs)...
Yeah I think it might be better to explain it like if anyone could boot up their own reddit and link to other people’s reddits. Some are popular, some aren’t, some don’t want to be huge because they want to be niche like some subreddits did. We may have subreddits with the same name but it’s ok because people can tell based on which Reddit it’s on. Also they’re called instances not reddits and communities not subreddits.
The thing that’s weird to me is that say I like football (soccer). I’m sure there are dozens of “instances” have a soccer community, but which one should I follow? It seems like this architecture fragments the user base too much.
I keep seeing people say this but honestly registering is really easy. It took me 5 minutes to figure out how to create an account after leaving reddit
I had heard about it for a week, but finally signed up when a mod I trusted on a reddit sub I used posted a sign-up link to lemmy.world. I'm somewhat tech proficient, but that extra step of figuring out a good instance to join was enough to stop me for a while. I didn't want to join a dud and have yet another dead login somewhere. YMMV, of course!
I keep seeing this said about lemmy but kbin was identical to any other site. So I looked up what the process is for lemmy and, aside from like 2 glitches to look out for it was exactly the same.
Please tell me what is difficult.
My issue was I didn't know where to go to sign up. It took me a little time to understand the fediverse, then I had to figure out what instance I should sign up for. After that I started hearing some instances weren't accepting new accounts but didn't know if that was a thing everywhere or only one instance. I consider myself above average compared to the general public when it comes to my capabilities with the Internet and computer tech in general, it's never taken me days to understand stand how to sign up for a website like this before.
It does seem simple now that I'm here and understand things better. It's just a learning curve; this is unique to any website\forum\whatever I've played with before.
And sadly, the software seems to be little better than proof of concept quality. It seems poorly architected for functionality, usability and scalability.
Image Transcription: Line Graph
[A line graph is shown depicting the number of users on Lemmy over one month's time. The horizontal axis lists the date of each reading, with an interval shown for every day. The earliest date begins at '2023-05-28' and the most recent date is given as '2023-06-26'. The vertical axis measures the number of users, with intervals marked at every 5,000 users, with an upper limit of 50,000 users. There is a green trend like and a blue trend line graphed from plot points at every horizontal interval. The green line is labelled 'Active users monthly' shows increase over time. The line remains flat at approximately 1,000 users from the '05-28' date mark to the '05-31' mark, then begins to gradually increase to approximately 10,000 users, starting to show a trend similar to the beginning of an exponential growth curve. At the '06-11' date mark, the line begins increasing at a relatively steady rate, with the last marked date showing just over 45,000 users. There are two points in which the line shows an apparent indication of levelling off in user count, before then showing a sudden increase in users again, with neither of these points significantly impacting the overall upward trend. These points are at the dates '06-16' and '06-21'. The second graphed line, the blue line, is labelled 'Active Users Half year' and starts at approximately 3,000 users, but follows an almost identical trend shape as the green line as it increases approximately parallel to it. The blue line ends at around 48,000 users at the final graphed point.]
^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
The most wonderful part of this, for the unfortunately uncoordinated like me:
scrolling and accidently clicking a random card is now always a random post and not an ad launching a browser window I immediately close and curse.
It's amazing how bad it got for awhile out there.
Don't worry, I'm working on a solution to this. My proposed Lemmy client will auto-inject ads into your feed so you can really recreate the Reddit experience.
Oh good, I was wondering when I could expect 'normal' behavior.
Honestly I wonder if the Lemmy client writers are going to be a strictly patronage model. The wefwef.app team has done a crazy good job illustrating what the free minimum is.
Need to add a bunch of asshole bots to hurl insults as well.
Joined today! Let's go!! See ya, Reddit!
More active here than I’ve been on Reddit for years!
Me too!
Joined today too! Let's goo!
New fireinthesky7 is new. Happy to be here, fuck /u/spez!
Insane Growth
I'm not sure it was all warm blooded. Active, warm blooded users are probably the real metric.
Using 'Active Users' as the metric of growth is much more reliable than the total user count since there have been rashes of instances started up just for spam accounts.
It even mentions this as a note on the fedidb site:
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
I’m in that graph, and wow my curves look good.
I'm in this photo and I like it.
I'm in this picture and I do like it
I’m in there twice! (One NSFW account and this - on Reddit I used multireddits to keep the two somewhat separated.)
The biggest issue with this website is the lack of basic explanation of how it works. Imo, the moment someone visits this website for the first time, a pop-up should appear explaining what this is, and how it works in maybe one simple paragraph at most.
Just signed up for lemmy and this already feels better than reddit. Hope it gains more traction ahead.
Welcome and enjoy your stay! Feel free to DM for any questions about Lemmy or Federation in general!
I do have a question. It seems like I can comment on posts made in a different Lemmy instance than my local one, but I can't upvote any non-local posts or comments. Is this intentional? I'm using Lemmy on the Summit app on android if that makes a difference.
Lets see where this goes
Here from the mass Reddit exodus! Excited for a new platform to learn and explore!
Welcome! You got in before the (probably) huge influx.
Welcome! It's been nice over here, especially the lack of karma. Post as you feel like posting, enjoy the great discussions and memes 😁 and as always, fuck spez
The barrier to entry is super high but hopefully websites and apps are developed to make it easier for people to join. (Sync for Lemmy)
Let's also do out part and post/comment to add content to this website to make it appealing for new users.
Is it really super high? It might not be very intuitive, but there’s nothing truly complicated. Maybe I’m out of touch.
People are over explaining it. If you didn’t explain all the federation stuff it really just boils down to 1) pick a website, 2) sign-up 3) pick communities. It’s no different from other websites. All the quirks of the federation can be learnt well after getting started.
I'm trying to familiarize with Lemmy right now, and so far it seems great. I just hope it gains enough traction, so I can have communities as active as the one I enjoyed on Reddit (mainly book related).
It'll be interesting to see how Lemmy grows. I am also coming from reddit but I'm excited to see how lemmy's culture grows over time.
Refugee here. Been poking around trying to find the right place in the fediverse for ages, while lurking on reddit for pics, memes, and news. The impending death of reddit apps was just the push I need to finally make a decision. Happy to finally be here and looking forward to the expansion of a decentralized decorporatised internet
Idk exactly what I'm doing but I'm having fun!
First day, checking in. So far, so good.
I’m doing my part!
Now that I see you doing your part it feels bad if I don't do it as well, here goes me getting out of lurking.
Good luck, tomorrowcould be a really chaotic day
I am a reddit refugee here. Would love to be part of this community. Even got a user name I love than the ridiculous one I have at reddit. And this web app that you guys have built is Fucking awesome on iPhone and feels like I am using Apollo.
I didn't know what Lemmy is but since Reddit killed my Baconreader, I couldn't go support their garbage app. So this seems nice.
Wanting to be counted too!
+1
Sign me up!
I wasn't bothered about joining here until my app went dark and it made me angry. Fuck 'em.
Thank you for welcoming us to the Fediverse. I hope we can bring more good than bad. People are so fragile and flawed, but we can try to not be assholes or own at least own up to it if we do.
❤️ Free hugs! ❤️
Commenting to boost.
RIP RIF.
I'm glad to see Lemmy is getting so much attention, just hoping not many people give up and go back to Reddit after just 2 days lol
I haven't used it in over 2 weeks. The first few days were rough (habit) but I'm good now.
I'll keep using it as long as people keep giving me something to read
Gotta give us the full "lurker experience".
EVERYONE GET IN HERE!
Using a friend's instance now, but plan to create my own instance here soon as well. Excited to see the reddit influx, I've been waiting for over 10 years to see something like this happen, tracking federation since StatusNet
Same about waiting over 10 years for something like this to happen.
First Post on here.
RIP RIF.
So incredibly sad, but hoping lemmy can be something special in its own right.
Using Connect for Lemmy and like what I've seen so far.
Former RiF user here. Connect for Lemmy is my favorite so far. I hope to see a LiF in the future.
My first post. RIP RIF.
RIP RIF 😭
Commenting so i'm counted as active :)
Honestly, once apps are improving (though current ones are actually pretty nice) and more users are here - what would I be missing from reddit? Nothing. When I need old content I use Google to get it from reddit, but for anything new there is not a single feature I miss dearly (might be different for moderators).
Well I kinda miss bullying spez… no I don’t.
Commenting to be in the next stats :)
And it’s only going up from there! Where will Lemmy be in a month from now?
Getting users to come and try is great, but the real challenge is to keep them on the platform and get them to contribute. Fingers crossed!
Active. Good afternoon, folks.
Welcome
Active user here, checking in! Fuck You r/spez
Reddit made me do it... RIP RIF.
Lemmy gang
So far I’m really enjoying it. There’s a lot fewer low-effort posts and comments to wade through to get to good discussion. I just hope it lasts.
Let's go! Leaving a comment to participate, hoping the new place can handle the traffic tomorrow.
Here's to hoping that number triples in the next few days.
Active =)
All instances are overloaded as hell...
I'm glad I made my account a little earlier, it's pretty slow right now!
Sorry on behalf of all of us Reddit refugees clogging up your systems ;)
Made mine yesterday. Not long ago but before the servers got destroyed
Many refugees trying to find a home. Hopefully it holds, and from now on, we prosper.
Just looking for a place to continue discussions and rebuild the communities.
Activate!
On to a million in July!
Indeed. This is my first comment here :-)
Guess I'm active now.
Me tooo
May we all be active on this blessed api $$$ day.
I am the 0.00001% !
Lemmy definitely has some kinks to work out, but I can easily see this being a far superior platform.
Finally figuring this place out
Adding my voice! Exploring this whole new world. It's all quite exciting.
Let's see how many % it grows in July when shit really hits the fan.
Only going to get better in July!
Even though there might be a bot problem, there is not doubt that the community and engagement is growing really fast. Let’s see how it goes now with a predictable influx from Reddit users.
Hello Lemmy!
A lot of people, myself included, are replacing their favorite app with wefwef.app as it works like RIF and the others.
App out of sight and reach, out of mind.
let's go. just don't let it turn to voat.
Came here after hearing that Sync is being developed for this app! Can't wait to use it. Hoping this community will keep growing 💗
Apollo has officially gone dark, deleted it along with reddit app. I'm here now!
Writing here so my account counts!
I want to say something like "we like the stock" without coming across as a silly reddit memelord. But we like the stock.
New lemmy account checking in as active! I'll grab the popcorn 🍿
Been "Semi" active on here since the Reddit black out.
sounds good to me. will be nice to have some where to go after the implosion of reddit submarine.
Titan
Sync for reddit has died. Hello Lemmy.
Rip
I am new with own instance. Looking around and trying a few things. Glad it is so easy to use. Any tips for starters? Thanks for the applist
One small question, "average lemmy total users per day" is a bad metric to track, ("average active users" seems much more reliable), but is it going down because bot accounts are being closed?
is the “average lemmy total users per day” going down because bot accounts are being closed?
I heard from a few instances in the past days that they are actively purging bot accounts, which means their account numbers decrease. So yes, that is a contributing factor. Not sure if it is the only factor.
It could also be other people lose interest and stop using lemmy. That probably happens, but since we're still growing overall (also in other metrics, like apps being developed and developers joining git) I would assume that currently more people join than leave.
Overall I think “average lemmy total users per day” is going down because the war has started and Skynet is losing.
but is it going down because bot accounts are being closed?
That would be a reasonable guess. Presumably this is going to normalize pretty soon.
I've been using reddit and RIF for 10 years. I'll probably still use old.reddit on desktop, but if they ever decide to shut that down I'm gone for good. Hoping Lemmy can be my go-to for mobile.
Just wait until July 31 stats with the migration in swing, hello first post for the stats.
That's some really encouraging news!
Let's go.
Deleting my Reddit account now brb.
Count me in as an active user!
I'm doing my part!
Commenting for the stats!
Thank you for providing this platform.
Going in the right direction, can't wait to see what we can do here. Sync stopped working just now, so that's it for me, mostly desktop now.
Not to be a Debra downer but until we have a way of accurately IDing bots / auto-generated accounts these numbers should have a massive asterisk on them, it's interesting but not an indicator of quality
I love to see the growing numbers. The larger the numbers the more communities will be filled and the better the engagement will be.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see that number double within the next month or so.
Seems like Lemmy has positioned itself as the alternative to Reddit. Though, wouldn’t be surprised to see Squabbles gain more traction.
Happy to be a part of this new movement! Made accounts on 5 instances and downloaded 4 apps! Let's keep up the good work and make this the community of the future!
Guess i’ll just post to add to the numbers because I have nothing worthy to add! 😐
Can't wait for it to continue growing
Curious to see the July numbers.. :o
Yeah, I think a lot of people waited until the Reddit apps were actually killed before making the switch (myself included).
Aye
Lemmy gang gang.
And about the same on Kbin, so the whole Threadiverse is growing quite nicely.
Yes, thanks to reddit ig
Im active now!
Really enjoying my time here
Now wait for those juicy July numbers 👌
That is pretty crazy. Good to see.
Active comment
ACTIVE
Glad to be of service
Glad to be here.
I hope more r****t communities migrate to Lemmy
Commenting for the stats too. Bye Reddit.
I guess you can call me active now
I joined last week and deleted my 11 year old Reddit account yesterday.
As someone who's mainly a lurker Lemmy is great. And because I'm still building my community list I take a lot less time doom scrolling 😁 So far it helps me limit my social media use.
Let’s hope lemmy works and continues rising! Also wefwef for lemmy is one hell of an app!
R.i.p rif
First comment, counting as a stat!
Just joined Lemmy Had no idea that Sync for Reddit was going to close after the API changes. That was the push i needed to put reddit behind after 12 years.
Registering as an active user !
I'm optimistic and also hope this is different than the whole "Voat" exodus (which in retrospect was really dumb, and fuck Voat). It's a much different situation. The technology and vibe here is good for now, and I hope it gets better.
I'm doing my part
Thank you for posting the app links!
Is this just this instance or is this for all Lemmy instances?
across all lemmy instances
Active baby.
Coming here since boost is going dark too. The internet somehow always finds a way to give you an alternative solution, grateful for places like this!
I will leave a little mark towards this number. Joined a few weeks ago and have been frequently lurking. Everything feels so clear to me now, we're definitely on the horizon of a brighter future!
I'm looking at the Lemmy instances webpage https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Why are so many instances closed for sign-ups? Doesn't seem like a good thing for the potential July 1st deluge of new users.
Server costs and some instances (like beehaw.org) are particular about who they let in. That's why I just refer people to lemmy.world since it's the easiest instance to sign up with a lot of local content to draw in new users.
Why are so many instances closed for sign-ups?
Probably to keep the instances from melting with the influx of new users if I had to guess
Bear in mind that this isn't a commercial service. It's all volunteer hobbyists at this point (sometimes helped by donations). Some instances are running on a Raspberry Pi in someone's closet. Not all instances exist for the same purposes, and some don't have the admin time to take care of a lot of new users.
Hmmm. I can't imagine why this could be happening. Perhaps we should summon in Dr. Watson to help us solve this great mystery
Reporting for duty!
We're going to the moon. The mass third party migration has begun. RIP Slide for Reddit! Thanks for having me :).
🚀🚀🚀🚀
Just moved from sync.
And I helped.
I may not be a Digg refugee, but I sure as hell am a Reddit one
Rest in peace RIF, time for a new site to autoclick on mobile.
Hope this gets a lot of traction - makes a lot of sense to keep internet discussions freer on these instances than on sites just looking to cash out at all costs. Twitter and Reddit really setting the examples
I guess you cam call me active now
I'm on here and on Beehaw. I think that's good enough for me.
Pleased to meet y'all!
Present ✋🏻
Since RIF linked here. It's going to be millions that will see it. Remains to be seen how many transfer.
Just fuckin watch July.
I'm also here!
Trying to figure this out still, but it feels exciting to start here.
Joined today. Waiting for Sync for Lemmy to release!
Check back next Friday after people have been impacted by the outages.
Hopefully this place doesn't descend into the cesspool many Reddit subs have.
New user here.
This is only the beginning
Fresh off the refugee boat, but doing my part!
Let’s fucking go!!
Good. Let reddit dies
Here's my two pennuth - fingers crossed this whole fedi thing works.
Hell yeah!
count me in!
present ✋🏻
Neat !
Commwnting to be in the next count
Keen to see what those numbers will look like in July.
Today i said goodbye to Boost, and maybe even my 12yo reddit account.. and went looking for an alternative. So far Lemmy seems like a perfect replacement!
Well have to see how much traction it will get and if enough users make the switch
Glad to support and be here. RIP RIF....RIP DIGG
Let's go June 7 club!
insert Manuel - Gas Gas Gas
I've been enjoying the platform so far. And love how much innovation it may spur in the space.
Yeeee!
Weird that I don't see kbin on the pie charts
Kbin measures their users differently, so it's hard to get a one for one comparison.
present ✋🏻
I wanted to be included too
lmao
Count me too!
that is yuuuuuge
Nice!
I'm doing my part
Commenting to be part of the stats!
Honestly, I expected more
To hijack a brain dead crypto bro phrase:
tO tHe MoOn!!!
