Does lemmy.world really have 22000 users already?
Since my last post yesterday, lemmy.world has added over 3000 new users, bringing the total user count to 22000 today (source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). It firmly holds the position of the second-largest lemmy instance, surpassing beehaw.org by a significant margin of 10000 users.
In other news, beehaw has defederated from lemmy.world a few hours ago. How does the third-largest instance only have 4 mods for its 12000 users?!
So much going on!
I find it very confusing that they are defederating. Beehaw users can choose to watch local content only. Why damage the federation in this crucial time?
Nah, de-federation means they won't be seeing anything from lemmy.world on:
They will still see lemmy.world comments on other instances, but lemmy.world posts won't appear on the ALL sorting.
In the same way lemmy.world won't be able to see beehaw posts.
Basically,
No, they can choose to see content from local communities. The users posting in those communities, and the people commenting on those posts, can still come from any federated site.
A lot of users joined Lemmy.world due to the open sign ups. Whether they will be lurking or not remains to be seen.
Yeah I used to lurk on reddit, but trying to be more active on lemmy.world. I'm a fan of what's going on with lemmy and kbin.
Exciting to see such incredible growth in such a short time! I do feel like that until moderation tools improve some instances might do something similar to beehaw. Given beehaw noted it was hopefully a temporary solution and they have stricter content guidelines than most instances.
I saw on one of their post that they now have 36 mods, but I guess that's still not enough.
I think you're right, they have 4 admins. Corrected my post. Thanks!
Beware of bots and cyber attacks, dear lemmy!
The growth right now is crazy, my chosen site/instance/? is struggling to stay up. I‘m really excited for this like I haven‘t been for any website in a good decade.
What's your chosen instance? And yeah, I haven't been this excited since the whole digg vs. reddit switch back in 2010. And then there's mastodon this past year. I remember reading about needing decentralized social media back then, and now it's finally here.
It's currently at 6k monthly active users, which is significant. However, it's important to note that there are already 16k abandoned accounts.
One of those is mine, after finding out that LemmyNSFW can't reach lemmy.ml, but FMHY can reach both. Probably not the only one.
I have an account on the exact same instances for the same reasons 😆 However, FMHY allows NSFW content, so it's only a matter of time before Lemmy.ml blocks it.
Yeah, it's sad. I guess it makes sense; just now I saw two posts from "lewd loli" from another instance in my "all" feed, and I imagine that'd be awkward if it happened to lemmy.ml. It does mean I'll need a separate NSFW and SFW account, of which one will probably just be ignored completely. Or I could spin up my own instance, so small nobody will bother to block it.
If this stuff really catches on I predict there will be services built around setting up private instances for that purpose.
Lol, ChatGPT
EDIT: I see I wasnt the first to notice now.
You aren't replying to the correct comment.
Where do you find that info? I want to track that.
On the sidebar of the main page of the lemmy.world website.
How did you extrapolate 16000 abandoned accounts when lemmy.world was just created a couple weeks ago?
If you claim that there are 22k accounts, but only 6k of them are active users, then there would be 22k - 6k = 16k abandoned accounts.
What you said still doesn’t make sense.
Normally, an account is considered inactive after a few months of inactivity and subsequently abandoned after maybe a year or more of inactivity (depending on whether the service enforces this).
The oldest account on this instance is about 2 weeks old.
Then one of those two figures is wrong. If the oldest account is 2 weeks old, there should be 22k active users per month instead of 6k. So, I don't know.
The active user count is the count of all unique users from an instance that made a comment or a post within the last month. So that means we have 6k people posting and commenting and 16k lurkers.
Here are some of the monthly active user statistics for various social media platforms, according to the search results:
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
Ok ChatGPT.
Can people please not do that?
Try and stop me.
Haha no. I thought you are a bot account that responded to some keywords and saw that this isn't the case after I sent my comment. I'm not a fan of copying ChatGPT answers, but this is still very different.
...ChatGPT?
Or Bing Chat?
No
Which one then? This reads like AI generated.
I don't promote closed source software sorry.
No