Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users.

Senseibull@feddit.uk to Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world – 523 points –

Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.

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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...

I'm gonna miss Boost so bad.

Hope the dev either releases the code or implements kafkars. I would really like to just continue using boost with lemmy

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'm surprised at how quick I flipped my addiction from Reddit to Lemmy..

I spend just as much time here as I did there. But its a happier time too.

with some of the kinks of lemmy i dont think im spending as much time as i was on reddit

but i am spending a decent amount and thats been awesome. i do think the more old school vibe is really effecting how i wanna connect here. its maybe less time but more quality

people have been really nice

im sure that will change at somepoint if our dreams become reality but its been a unique exp if nothing else.

It's kinda making me want to less of a dick. It's what the internet has turned me into since 2012. 1996-2011 was a good run though lol.

LOL i feel that for sure

def has that fresh, non jaded vibe so that helps

I keep suddenly finding myself using boost a few times daily when the instance I'm on goes down.

Out of curiosity, which app was your preference between the two? I'm on android, so I never used Apollo, but tbh when I saw it I hated looking at it. I was surprised to learn it was the number one app. Did it have better features or something?

It was pretty similar tbh. I liked both. I got an Android phone and an iPad sooo... Had no choice :)

Apollo is a bit heavier on the sliding gestures. Swipe right to upvote. Swipe aaalll the way right to downvote. Left to share, all the way left to favorite... People really liked this. I don't mind it. Maybe cause I was on iPad? Like arrows are fine :)

The only feature Apollo had that I was missing in Boost was the scrubbing on gifs and videos. You could replay in slow-mo, pause or even go faster with such ease. It was really really nice.

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

Had to remove RIF, my muscle memory was like yooo. I don't even want to use it knowing it's closing shop.

Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5

who is the .5?

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.

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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.

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

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

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.

Yup. As the saying goes, Rome wasn't built in a day. Gonna take some time.

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.

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.

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.

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Not at all, just started on this one in case my main goes down.

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This is amazing news. I’m thinking we’ve reached critical mass where it’s going to be self sustaining and worth using.

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.

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.

They potential is huge because it's all open. If the community really wants something, it'll be done.

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 :)

Nearly up to 20k new users in last 24 hours, it’s accelerating!

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

Don't forget us kbin users too! We're all in the same boat now

kbin.social still isn't federating, right? I wasn't able to access communities @kbin.social from Lemmy

Thus I propose we rise an army to incorporate kbin into our glorious federation.

Indeed! That's the beautiful thing about this whole decentralised magic. You can use the app (not just mobile app) that best suits you and your interests, and interact with anyone, anywhere.

It's wonderful honestly.

it warms my heart to see so many people slowly figuring this out. This is what the internet was meant to be all along.

Might be a dumb question, but I don't see how I can interact with Kbin from Lemmy.

If I search for communities, I can see ones from other instances but not any from Kbin.

On kbin.social specifically, federation is currently broken. The server saw a lot of stress because of the influx of new users and the dev turned on the cloudflare check, so that instance won't kneel down. That broke the federation, other instances cannot go through that check.

Oh. That's unfortunate. Why do they need cloud flare again? Are there other instances of Kbin?

Cloudflare can protect against DDOS. In this instance the people are ddosing the server, although not intentionally. There are just a lot of people trying to open the site. So it's not malicious but still an "attack", which cloudflare's service mitigates. In reddit it was called the "reddit hug of death", when small sites kneeled down because a post got popular with their links in it.

And yes, there are, the second largest is fedia.io You can find more here:

https://fedidb.org/software/kbin

The site seems to be down?

Same here - newbie user. Hope to share things with this community

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@cedarmesa @c2h6
Diaspora is one of the oldest of the oldest. Much older than mastodon. They’re federated too, but not on the same network.

Mastodon and lemmy uses ActivityPub. (Mastodon used to run on OStatus, but then switched to ActivituPub later) Diaspora uses its own protocol and refuses to ever switch to a most recent one.

Some fediverse services however (friendica and hubzilla which are kinda facebook-like) are using multiple protocols and can federate with both mastodon and diaspora.

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.

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

I am happy that Lemmy is receiving more attention, but I suspect that these numbers are misleading, some people have more than one account (not my case!) and how many of them were active in the last 30 days?

I can't answer how many different accounts one person has on avg, but I can tell you that about 23k accounts have been active in the last month.

Lemmy will have inflated user numbers, because you need multiple accounts due to defederation issues. It will probably settle down in the future, but for now unavoidably.

Oh boy! There is such a huge amount of fediverse services... By the way, WTF is Misskey? And how is has 1M users?

Edit: typos

Misskey looks a lot like a federated Twitter alternative, kinda like Mastodon. It seems to be Chinese, which might be why most of us have never heard of it and why it has so many users.

@SuperIce @domage
Misskey is a Japanese twitter-like. It’s actually older than mastodon and very popular in Japan specifically. They have custom emoji reactions under posts, they have animation and advanced markdown, they can have cat ears on their profile pictures, THEY HAVE QUOTE REPOST, chat, advanced search features, etc.

Misskey have been forked multiple times (foudkey, calckey, etc.) and those forks are more popular in English-speaking communities.

Governments around the world cannot control rebel developers looking for true freedom of speech

Very interesting. Anyone know why there was a huge drop in Total users for Lemmy from Nov 3 to Nov 4, 2022?. Total users went from 55178 to 37901.

Did some somewhat sizable instance close down or become invisible to that site or something like that maybe?

Looks like a huge drop in user counts a few minutes ago too: Down to 75K as of the time I made this comment despite the chart showing a much higher number immediately before that. I'm guessing there's something off when it comes to counting the different instances.

Glad to be apart of a growing community. After that bullshit Reddit pulled, I'm happy to be here 🎉🥳

We are ahead of the game that's forsure. 5 years from now we will think back and feel like the first pioneers.

I was a reddit user for a long time but I feel at home here. I'm happy with how easy every thing is to use. Good luck.

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

Being able to defederate from an instance is the very definition of the fediverse. You are not beholden to a single provider

You are right, but nevertheless as a user of said instance I'd be a tad annoyed. But I guess there's nothing holding one back to register on another instance if that happens.

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.

Yeah nodes and instances are kinda interchangeable terminology, instances is the right word to use really though for what we are referring to today, a node could be any server that provides a function or service to the lemmyverse but not necessarily a full instance, however right now, all we have are instances. As the Lemmy is developed we may see some functions of instances being handed off to other nodes, like a database node, to save on compute and storage costs.

This is really great news :). I can already see great potential with Lemmy.

Some growth pains but I'm managing. :) When I upvote, it looks like the vote is undone after a few seconds but it looks like it actually sticks when I reload the page. Same with commenting. Looks like it takes a long while even if it in reality happens more quickly. I think there are some issues with their websockets code or something but the important thing is that it works. :)

Que bueno ver y participar, después de varios años casi en el olvido. Y que sigan sumando...

Pretty grand, don't hesitate to allow the tamest of ads to help maintain things!

In one case that's been discussed, there was a group of moderators; and one of that group chose to set the sub private without the others' consent.