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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
15 years for me, ditched reddit a few days ago. platform is toxic, management doesnt care about the userbase at all.
fuck em
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.
In this blessed age, we are all Federation champions. Or we devolve:
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"
He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"
Northern Conservativeβ Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
Server issues have been a growing pain for everyone over the past couple of weeks. Good thing lemmy.world's admin @ruud@lemmy.world has experience running mastodon.world, so this server/instance has been the most stable for me.
The lemmy.world mod is active and knows what he's doing from the looks of it. He upgraded the infra recently.
Just joined lemmy.world in response to reddit's BS. Picked this instance because its sounds most normal compared to other gibberish names. Hi everyone!
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.
Yep still get subscribe pending for lemmy.ml but lemmy.world is ready with the instant subs ππΎ
Except BeeHaw as defederated lemmy.world - which is a shame. Step in the wrong direction IMO. That's going to be a huge problem because now if you're a BeeHaw member you no longer see anything lemmy.world related - you're suddenly, overnight, cut off from thousands of people and posts.
Having these larger instances owned by 1 person like they all are now is a shame, but unavoidable at the beginning I suppose. One of them gets bitter and you have thousands defederated. I guess over time as things splinter up more it may get better.
I'll likely just spin up my own instance so I can federate with everyone and never be dropped (at least from my side).
For what it's worth, beehaw.org is run by 4 admins and a number of mods. They also hope the defederation is temporary until better moderation tools are available: https://beehaw.org/post/567170.
We'll see if they really mean that, but others have said that lemmy moderation tools are still limited compared to mastodon's, for example.
It's a shame that beehaw had to use a "nuke" because other moderation tools weren't available, but I think it makes for a great natural experiment in the early fediverse. Beehaw wants to build an instance with higher community standards, as is their right. Will defederation of lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works lead to fewer sign-ups at beehaw? Will members leave? Will they just make accounts at other instances and keep their beehaw account? Will this help spread membership to smaller instances? It should be interesting.
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!
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
it's nice to be here. i wish every person on reddit would have come here. fediverse should be the real usage of social media. Open and free of big corps.
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.
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.
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.
FediDB has a "Threadiverse" category which tracks kbin + lemmy - we're up to 169,312 in total now!
Edit: Oops, forgot the link: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
All very new to me and changing daily with my understanding of things, but I'm in beehaw and lemmyworld because of beehaw restricting some instances. I want to see it all before deciding where to relocate more permanently
I switched from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world because lemmy.ml has insane censorship of anything critical of authoritarian communist regimes
I was looking forward to ridding myself of my Reddit addiction. Now I'm here...
saved this post for when we have millions of users! i can say i was here from the start
I love .world and I'm happy to see it grow. But at the same time I think such disproportion is not great and userbase should be more spread out.
There should be some kind of "tumbler" on join-lemmy
There's already kind of a "tumbler" at https://join-lemmy.org/instances. It confused the hell out of me the first time I tried to get on lemmy.
I get your point, but I also do see the benefit of a stable, default landing place (like lemmy.world is shaping up to be) before people start spreading out. Personally, I joined lemmy.world because it had a lot more content on its main page compared to the other instances (I also have accounts on other instances too).
We're coming over from Reddit. The damage their CEO is doing is becoming permanent.
Joined yesterday. Don't really grasp the different instances yet but world sounded like a default to me
I'd be one of those users too if I could actually register here. the button just spins forever. Been like that for days now. :\
the lemmyverse takeover is inevitable
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?
27.3k as of right now, that is crazy! Its nice to see the instance counts going up for both lemmy and kbin, hopefully communities can be more spread out too to prevent defederation like we saw this morning.