Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.
🎉 🎉🎉🎉
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, it’s now 109,000 and counting up fast!
100,000 🎉
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 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.
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.
Past 150k user now!
Fantastic, keep up the good work everyone!
Are we gonna break 1 mil?
Que bueno ver y participar, después de varios años casi en el olvido. Y que sigan sumando…
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.
This is amazing news. I’m thinking we’ve reached critical mass where it’s going to be self sustaining and worth using.
40 million more to go! \o/
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?
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.
The site seems to be down?
💀
Beats me, I’m new here too
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!
RES has (had?) a dark mode for old reddit.
yep it does. RES was such a great addon made by such cool people. Cant wait to see the kind of things those people are making for Lemmy.
Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5
who is the .5?
Musk has a Lemmy account?
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 ended up having to rearrange my phone layout slightly, putting Mlem (how I’m accessing Lemmy) where I used to have Apollo. I did the same thing with Ivory (Mastodon) taking Twitter’s spot too
god it’s terrifying and so true. I didn’t realize how addicated I was to apollo until muscle memory just kept clicking the damn app!
Five of those were from me. Hedging my bets across multiple instances. Can’t imagine I’m the only one?
Not at all, just started on this one in case my main goes down.
Five?? I just have an nsfw and a sfw one.
Why bother hedging?
As an example, Beehaw just de-federated from lemmy.world and from sh.itjust.works. But since I primarily drop anchor at startrek.website (and since I’ve replicated my subscriptions across all my accounts), I just flip over to that account and still have access to everything.
Oh? Why did beehaw defederate? Does that mean beehaw is cut off from everyone else?
Expected reasons. Federated systems make moderation more difficult, compounded with poor availability of moderation tools on the platform today. https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Ugh, Beehaw denied my registration so I guess just can’t get their content anymore.
Damn, I just assumed they were screening to ensure real users acting in good faith. Didn’t expect them to actually be rejecting people.
I think they’re pretty serious about the last essay part.
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, doesn’t it? I’d be a little mad if some moderator could make that call for me if I was registered to Beehaw
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.
Being able to defederate from an instance is the very definition of the fediverse. You are not beholden to a single provider