Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users.

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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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We are at 5k monthly active users. I find that stat more interesting.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

Here are some of the monthly active user statistics for various social media platforms, according to the search results:

  1. Facebook - 2.96 billion monthly active users (MAUs) [1]
  2. YouTube - 2.56 billion MAUs[2]
  3. WhatsApp - 2 billion MAUs[3]
  4. Instagram - 2 billion MAUs[3][4]
  5. WeChat - 1.26 billion MAUs[2]
  6. TikTok - 1 billion MAUs[2]
  7. Facebook Messenger - 988 million MAUs[2]
  8. Snapchat - 557 million MAUs[2]
  9. Pinterest - 444 million MAUs[2]
  10. Twitter - 368 million MAUs[5]

It's worth noting that these numbers are subject to change and may vary depending on the source. Additionally, there are many other social media platforms with significant user bases that are not listed here. When choosing which social media platforms to use for your brand, it's important to consider the relevance to your target audience and the quality of engagement on each platform, rather than just the number of users.

Citations:

[1] https://buffer.com/library/social-media-sites/

[2] https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-popular-social-media-platforms/

[3] https://datareportal.com/social-media-users

[4] https://statusbrew.com/insights/social-media-statistics/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users

By Perplexity at https://www.perplexity.ai/search/98165c01-5be7-41be-ba6c-fd77454d3b5a

Was initially surprised about WeChat not being higher just because my understanding was that it was the main social site in China with a lot of the ones popular outside of that country being banned, but I suppose practically nobody outside of China uses it and they are still a minority of the world, big as they are, so on second thought it makes sense. Seeing Pinterest above Twitter genuinely surprises me though, I don't think I've ever seen anyone talking about Pinterest, mentioning their Pinterest account, or linking to it, and tbh I don't actually even know what sort of site it is or what it even looks like.

If you google some images, most of the results usually come from Pinterest