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!
I made an introduction thread over in !chat (https://Lemmy.world/c/chat) if you’re feeling bored
Haha i’ll check it out, thanks.
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
I’m getting that problem too. I saw that word - fediverse - a lot recently and it seemed like a concept that would be beyond me so I didn’t even look. Now that I have, my mind is blown and technology continues to amaze me. The networks just get larger and I love it.
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!
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.
Haha this is exactly what I am trying to do over at Warframe’s instance at dormi.zone
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.
Yeah, I am a long time lurker from Reddit as well. Now I started a community for back country skiing [email protected] . Feel free to come watch me awkwardly post trip pictures trying to get the community going :-)
Subscribed! I’ve only been once and it ended with a concussion so I’ll vicariously live through you guys
Sorry to hear about the concussion! Hopefully you still enjoy the community.
8 years on Reddit and it’s refreshing having something new to learn to use
Man, when I joined this was a brand new instance with only few users. That wasn’t even that long ago.
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.
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.
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
Does that mean lemmy.world didn’t exist 2 weeks ago or had very little users? That’s some insane growth then.
Lemmy.world is extremely new, I don’t think it is more than a few weeks old but the person who created it is very active and working to improve it constantly. I think that shows in its uptime vs the other instances.
Here is the oldest post by ruud, the admin 2 weeks old:
saved this post for when we have millions of users! i can say i was here from the start
My first comment in the “fediverse” and on Lemmy as a platform, hopefully I can look on it the same in the future. I’d love to see this grow
I was looking forward to ridding myself of my Reddit addiction. Now I’m here…
Same. I couldn’t deal with just scrolling Instagram so I had to look for alternatives
Same. I couldn’t deal with just scrolling Instagram, I needed something else lol
Ah the sweet moment of having to retype your comment
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 it’s the smarter choice.
I just hope that the influx of users won’t 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. Isn’t federation and diversity great?!
Hello from my personal lemmy instance. ;)
Oooo - get you Mr/Ms/Mx fancypants over there.
I’m trying to figure out how to make my own
It’s not hard but a little challenging… If your savvy but new to the docker world there is a nice Ansible playbook that will set it up for you. Or if you want turn key with not much tech savvy there is a managed host doing Lemmy’s for 10 a month. Search on here you’ll find it.
I’m going the ansible playbook version. I’ll work on it this coming week when I have time.
Great… Do the ssh keys… Much easier than doing the password setup.
kbin.social has 29.8k local users.
157k is local + all federated servers.That includes people it knows about from Federated servers.
For the real numbers you need to use their nodeinfo, for example: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0
Kbin has 30119 right now.
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.
We’re coming over from Reddit. The damage their CEO is doing is becoming permanent.
It’s honestly pretty freeing to not have Karma at all. Keeps away the Gallowboobs of the world.
It also keeps me from occasionally seeing how much comment karma I have and feeling a tad embarrassed from the sheer volume. It definitely wasn’t a quality over quantity thing.
Now if only Steam would hide my hours played in DOTA…
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!
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That’s my last day using Reddit for sure. I’ve already stopped posting/commenting/and voting. I’m in read only mode now lol
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.
if defederated there’s a difference
see explanation here. https://lemmy.world/post/149743
Yes. Beehaw admins have just blocked access to their instance for lemmy.world users. In order to get the most content possible, it’s best to sign with an instance that isn’t blocked by other instances. If you don’t care about that then it doesn’t matter who you sign up with though.
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Did they say why they did that?
The rationale appears to be that they don’t have the moderation tools necessary to deal with an unvetted userbase. Lemmy.world doesn’t require any prior user verification, so anyone can join (just like reddit). Beehaw claims that they were receiving a large amount of trolls or other negative traffic from lemmy.world and shitjustworks, so they have temporarily defederated these instances.
This may change if better modding tools come around.
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.
Really excited to see what this becomes!
