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
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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…
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!
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
Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5
who is the .5?
I have one leg mb
I dunno, but I’m sure they’re alright.
consider this my half comment to try and ba…
Musk has a Lemmy account?
🤷🏻♂️
Huffman wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
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.
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Not surprising seeing the crap that’s going on with reddit. I came over from it too this week.
Really impressive! Also the overall vibe is super positive. Hope it keeps growing. There is a lot of potential.
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.
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.
Good point. Once a website is too noticeable, it is much more scrutinized. This has been seen countless times and its much harder to have the free flow of information when everyone is in on it. Then again though, that’s why there are hundreds of instances, you can drop ship in the mainstream one and take a quieter approach.
Don’t forget scammers. The sub I was a regular in had 900k+ members and there were scam bots trying to farm karma with reposts, selling fake merch with stolen art etc. constantly, sometimes multiple at once. That basically never happened to the smaller subs I regularily visited, as they apparently weren’t “interesting” enough for those people. …and I have the feeling that this issue will get only worse with the planned reddit changes and whatnot, but that’s no longer my concern.
They said the same about crypto, but look at it now
Crypto is sullied by the profit motive, which Lemmy lacks; I have high hopes for the fediverse
Speaking the truth there mate
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, it’s still a niche interest and carries a lot of negative stigma, much of which is rightly deserved
Yup. As the saying goes, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Gonna take some time.
123000 now.
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.
it’s pretty nice here i think. it feels more personal than on reddit.
New communities often do and you gain all those benefits from being smaller where the general atmosphere is a bit friendlier and more helpful as people are invested and want to make it happen. :) That’s honestly part of why I jumped ship to here now. At 100K users we’re starting to reach critical mass here where of all these users, it trickles down a few dozens at least into more or less niche Lemmy communities.
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?
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
Damn most of my communities were from beehaw. I didn’t join the instance to spare the server load, but now I think I might join it directly since I don’t want to make another account on a different instance that may get defederated later on down the line.
Ugh, Beehaw denied my registration so I guess just can’t get their content anymore.
You can access their content, but you can’t really participate, unless you have an account on one of the instances they’re still federated with.
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.
Why did it leave lemmy.world?
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They say because of the open registration and acceptance.
Not at all, just started on this one in case my main goes down.
Lol, same
Same here
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.
That’s over 9000!
I think we’re still a little bit short of 8.0995899866e+31681 users.
Yup. Just 1.007×10^3520 earths left :)
What, nine thousand?!
Nearly up to 20k new users in last 24 hours, it’s accelerating!
Putting them advanced maths skills to use!
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.
Wait this has a dark mode? How do I enable that!
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 started by using Jeroba and I’m having a very close experience to reddit (at least the one I have in boost). I won’t download the official app so once boost goes offline it’s over for me. Lemmy could sell a “great migration of 2023” badge to help with the upgrading costs.
Ditto. I’m going to miss boost. It just worked. I’m hoping they come do something here.
I’m in the same boat, need something else to fill my daily commute
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
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.
