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Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users. (feddit.uk)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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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 πŸŽ‰

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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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    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

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