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EDIT: Just crossed 26000!
Almost! At the time of this post, lemmy.world has a whopping 25733 users and is growing fast.
Since my last post yesterday, it has added 4000 new users, making it the clear second-largest lemmy instance out there. Also quickly catching up to lemmy.ml's 36000 (not taking new signups).
beehaw.org (3rd largest) sits at 12500 users, partly because of more restrictive registration requirements.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Exciting to see all this growth!
We're here! 10 year reddit user, deleted my account last week. Forcing myself to post and not just lurk. Fellow lurkers please comment a bit. Once traffic is decent you may resume your lurking. Thank you
Agreed! Everybody's been trying hard to encourage each other to keep their favorite communities active. If we just keep doing what we already are, then there's no reason why Lemmy shouldn't make it. It's growing fast!
15 years for me, ditched reddit a few days ago. platform is toxic, management doesnt care about the userbase at all.
fuck em
Hi, fellow lurker! I've being doing my part commenting here and there. I'm loving this place!
Crawling out of lurking to show support. Using Jerboa right now, but I keep getting timeouts and it's making browsing clunky since all my upvotes/comments are being undone.
But otherwise I love the concept of the fediverse so I'm here to stay
This is for sure a good thing to note. While bits of potential advertisement can be made by lurking, new users will be more inclined to join and stay if they see people.
Similar. About seven years? Deleted and moved to lemm.ee and frankly I think it's good that we're having to learn about federation etc. An appropriate barrier to participation that is easily overcome if you just give it a little bit of your time. Reddit can go insert itself into the anus of the wicked witch of the west. And Spez can do the same.
8 years on Reddit and itβs refreshing having something new to learn to use
While the number of registered accounts is interesting the monthly active accounts numbers are more interesting as lemmy.world is claiming 8,005 while lemmy.ml is claiming 3,467 and beehaw.org is claiming 2,919. lemmy.world's growth in posts also indicates that it is the most active of the lemmy instances.
I just posted these graphs through my bot https://mastodon.social/@fediversecounter/110558349415198155
Long time lurker at Reddit, using Apollo, but now part of Lemmy, due to the disappointing action by Reddit. Thank you to this community for being a great alternative during this upheaval.
I'm in the same boat but with Rif, the funny thing is I've posted the same here in the last few days as the last year of reddit.
Man, when I joined this was a brand new instance with only few users. That wasn't even that long ago.
It's honestly pretty freeing to not have Karma at all. Keeps away the Gallowboobs of the world.
Gotta admit, a week ago when people were posting about Lemmy I didn't see it working. There were something like 500 active users when I checked join-lemmy.org. That was just not enough of a crictical mass to make it work.
Now I've been here a few days (with another login at kbin) and if this volume of traffic keeps up (i.e., there's enough happening to be interesting and make it worth coming back), I think I can live without reddit. I'm happyt to be wrong!
I was looking forward to ridding myself of my Reddit addiction. Now I'm here...
Same. I couldnβt deal with just scrolling Instagram so I had to look for alternatives
I switched from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world because lemmy.ml has insane censorship of anything critical of authoritarian communist regimes
Some lead developers of Lemmy also seem to subscribe to these political beliefs. But as long as they don't censor people (and that's pretty hard seeing as it's open source and federated) still seems fine.
We're coming over from Reddit. The damage their CEO is doing is becoming permanent.
saved this post for when we have millions of users! i can say i was here from the start
I think Lemmy.world is the new meta right now. All Reddit refugees overflow this instance as this is the most generic one and by looking and the number of communities itβs the smarter choice.
I just hope that the influx of users wonβt cause too many server issues. I can already imagine what the devs feel like to have so many active users without mentally and technologically preparing for it
Hello from kbin.social. Isnβt federation and diversity great?!
Hello from my personal lemmy instance. ;)
Oooo - get you Mr/Ms/Mx fancypants over there.
We out here!
I've been a full-time lurker only at Reddit for over 10 years, never made a single comment there. Never even created an account. I suppose I don't have any interesting reasons other than I never really had a desire to engage in those communities but did like it as a lookup resource. I'm an 'internet old-fart' that has always preferred forums and even ran a few back in the day.
The fediverse is the first 'newer' social system that gives me those old-school forum vibes while at the same time being fresh and more connected. It feels like this is one of those 'shifts' in internet history and is a good time to hop back on the internet social train.
It really does feel like a shift. Of course it doesn't have to be anything near as big as Reddit and that's alright. This can be its own thing, which I'm pretty happy to be a part of.
Definitely know what you mean on the old school vibes though, I wonder if part of it is because "reddiquite" feels so unnecessary here, you don't have to post in fear of a slew of downvotes.
Agreed.
Iβve never really experienced that so much since I didnβt actually engage with Reddit but I understand what you mean. In the forum days, we used to do βPost Exchangesβ or other events with other communities (shout-out to ye old: https://www.theadminzone.com) to try and increase engagement. This federation system is the perfect evolution of that, its like having all of these forum communities but we can all see and interact with each other.
My only concern is that like most things, if/once it gets popular it will start attracting more of the worst of the internet (and humanity). Right now people flocking here are usually more technically inclined or those willing to put more effort into trying something new. But hopefully this is were federation can help some as its much easier to have separate communities that make it less effective for bots, trolls and other degenerates to overtake, thus keeping the content appealing and interesting to engage with.
Joined yesterday. Don't really grasp the different instances yet but world sounded like a default to me
Think of it like your email provider. One is yahoo, one is Google, one is Hotmail, etc. They can all email each other, but they have different rules.
.world is just another "provider" but by no means a default, in fact it was only started 2 weeks ago.
Hi I'm new here. Does it matter what instance I'm subscribed to? I don't know what the practical differences would really be from my experience?
Beehaw just defederated a few instances, which means lemmy.world users can't really interact with their users. Other than that, it affects what shows up in your local feed.
I an new myself but I dont think it does. Only difference there might be is that some just lag more (lemmy.ml) due to so many users.
I would not be surprised if lemmy.world will outgrow lemmy.ml this month. Lemmy.world has a lot of active communities and meanwhile lemmy.ml. is not allowing new registrations and many of the existing communities look like they are no longer maintained or used.
28000 already!
Almost 30k, lemmy.world is quickly becoming the largest instance, insane.
omg almost 29k at this time of writing, i like people are escaping from reddit
Really excited to see what this becomes!
Im pretty sure that Lemmy, even if it doesn't grow to eclipse Reddit, will have a nice little following of its own that makes it a suitable substitution
I am interested to see where this goes.
