Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users.
Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users.
Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.
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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, itβs now 109,000 and counting up fast!
100,000 π
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
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!
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...
I keep suddenly finding myself using boost a few times daily when the instance I'm on goes down.
Out of curiosity, which app was your preference between the two? I'm on android, so I never used Apollo, but tbh when I saw it I hated looking at it. I was surprised to learn it was the number one app. Did it have better features or something?
I ended up having to rearrange my phone layout slightly, putting Mlem (how Iβm accessing Lemmy) where I used to have Apollo. I did the same thing with Ivory (Mastodon) taking Twitterβs spot too
Had to remove RIF, my muscle memory was like yooo. I don't even want to use it knowing it's closing shop.
Don't forget us kbin users too! We're all in the same boat now
Indeed! That's the beautiful thing about this whole decentralised magic. You can use the app (not just mobile app) that best suits you and your interests, and interact with anyone, anywhere.
It's wonderful honestly.
kbin.social still isn't federating, right? I wasn't able to access communities
@kbin.socialfrom LemmyThus I propose we rise an army to incorporate kbin into our glorious federation.
Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5
who is the .5?
I have one leg mb
consider this my half comment to try and ba..
Musk has a Lemmy account?
I dunno, but I'm sure they're alright.
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Huffman wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
This is amazing news. Iβm thinking weβve reached critical mass where itβs going to be self sustaining and worth using.
Really impressive! Also the overall vibe is super positive. Hope it keeps growing. There is a lot of potential.
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.
Good to know! I expected that an influx of users would propel development, hopefully that momentum keeps up.
That's over 9000!
I think we're still a little bit short of 8.0995899866e+31681 users.
Yup. Just 1.007Γ10^3520 earths left :)
Who wants to create c/unexpectedfactorial
Nearly up to 20k new users in last 24 hours, itβs accelerating!
What, nine thousand?!
Putting them advanced maths skills to use!
Wow! And it was around 11000 last weekend?! This is great!
I was going to ask what the number used to be! I am new as of last week, and even from when I started, it's insane to see posts with hundreds of upvotes. Crazy upswing in such a short amount of time. I wonder how long time Lemmy users feel about all this.
Yeah it's amazing to see how fast Lemmy has grown!
Not surprising seeing the crap that's going on with reddit. I came over from it too this week.
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.
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.
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.
Yup. As the saying goes, Rome wasn't built in a day. Gonna take some time.
Very interesting. Anyone know why there was a huge drop in Total users for Lemmy from Nov 3 to Nov 4, 2022?. Total users went from 55178 to 37901.
The great dying of Nov 3rd ofc
Never forget.
Not to be confused with the second great dying of Nov 4th.
I mean we are called Lemmings for a reason. You didn't get that memo?
Did some somewhat sizable instance close down or become invisible to that site or something like that maybe?
Thanos snapped obviously don't you remember half of humanity turning to dust https://tenor.com/0CEG.gif
Good for Thanos for not forgetting to delete the Lemmy accounts of those who are snapped out of existence.
Looks like a huge drop in user counts a few minutes ago too: Down to 75K as of the time I made this comment despite the chart showing a much higher number immediately before that. I'm guessing there's something off when it comes to counting the different instances.
40 million more to go! \o/
Reddit wasnβt built in a day :)
Let's hope it falls within a day.
Please, no. The more people come to a platform, the worse it gets.
the community over on reddit saw the shape that shit's gonna turn next month and now we're all scattering and looking for places to land. this platform is close enough to what we came from that heaps of us are landing here.
this is the busiest instance, by the way. not sure about other people but i'm maintaining an account on this instance separate to my primary account simply because i can access stuff faster from here
I likewise am here because of Reddit's recent idiocy.
Same
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.
123000 now.
132,124!
Oh boy! There is such a huge amount of fediverse services... By the way, WTF is Misskey? And how is has 1M users?
Edit: typos
Misskey looks a lot like a federated Twitter alternative, kinda like Mastodon. It seems to be Chinese, which might be why most of us have never heard of it and why it has so many users.
@SuperIce @domage
Misskey is a Japanese twitter-like. Itβs actually older than mastodon and very popular in Japan specifically. They have custom emoji reactions under posts, they have animation and advanced markdown, they can have cat ears on their profile pictures, THEY HAVE QUOTE REPOST, chat, advanced search features, etc.Misskey have been forked multiple times (foudkey, calckey, etc.) and those forks are more popular in English-speaking communities.
Governments around the world cannot control rebel developers looking for true freedom of speech
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.
Five of those were from me. Hedging my bets across multiple instances. Can't imagine I'm the only one?
Five?? I just have an nsfw and a sfw one.
Why bother hedging?
Lol, same
Same here
Not at all, just started on this one in case my main goes down.
We're just getting started!
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.
Where can I find these stats?
Here you go: [https://the-federation.info/platform/73]
Iβll update the main post with it too.
Our baby grows up so fast <3
The site seems to be down?
Found this other site to use since the-federation is down.
Same here - newbie user. Hope to share things with this community
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@cedarmesa @c2h6
Diaspora is one of the oldest of the oldest. Much older than mastodon. Theyβre federated too, but not on the same network.Mastodon and lemmy uses ActivityPub. (Mastodon used to run on OStatus, but then switched to ActivituPub later) Diaspora uses its own protocol and refuses to ever switch to a most recent one.
Some fediverse services however (friendica and hubzilla which are kinda facebook-like) are using multiple protocols and can federate with both mastodon and diaspora.
Beats me, I'm new here too
@Senseibu Congrats guys π
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 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 is really good to see.
Glad to be apart of a growing community. After that bullshit Reddit pulled, I'm happy to be here ππ₯³
We are ahead of the game that's forsure. 5 years from now we will think back and feel like the first pioneers.
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, doesnβt it? Iβd 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.
Yeah nodes and instances are kinda interchangeable terminology, instances is the right word to use really though for what we are referring to today, a node could be any server that provides a function or service to the lemmyverse but not necessarily a full instance, however right now, all we have are instances. As the Lemmy is developed we may see some functions of instances being handed off to other nodes, like a database node, to save on compute and storage costs.
Past 150k user now!
This is really great news :). I can already see great potential with Lemmy.
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.
In one case that's been discussed, there was a group of moderators; and one of that group chose to set the sub private without the others' consent.
Que bueno ver y participar, despuΓ©s de varios aΓ±os casi en el olvido. Y que sigan sumando...
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. :)
Fantastic, keep up the good work everyone!
Are we gonna break 1 mil?
1.125.133 users today β₯
I hope this trend continues for a long time.
Pretty grand, don't hesitate to allow the tamest of ads to help maintain things!
LEMMY SWEEP
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.
