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Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:

  1. lemmy.world: 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
  2. lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
  3. beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
  4. sh.itjust.works: 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
  5. feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
  6. lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
  7. lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
  8. lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
  9. lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
  10. programming.dev: 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lemmy.nz here

I think it is cool that it is coming up on nearly 2 million across all ~1200 instances.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some users have accounts on more than a single instance, some instances may be malicious, home to just spam/bot accounts.

Things are looking promising, but it's still early.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is my account on this instance. Jerboa search doesn't give me a ton of communities when I'm logged into my main lemmy.zip account. And I haven't figured out a way to load a community manually on mobile that allows me to subscribe with my .zip account, so I add subscriptions infrequently on my laptop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@absGeekNZ @MicroWave very nice! also, greetings from mastodon!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So cool that you commented from mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@MicroWave IKR! 😎I've also subscribed to all of my favorite lemmy/kbin subs and mags too on here, but my feed is a mess now haha 😅 . I think the coming mastodon updates will provide better interfaces for cross service usage. Can't wait for that feature-set to roll out 🤞!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s great! I should play around with subscribing to lemmy with my mastodon account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@MicroWave Definitely give it a try! Just don't go too wild with subs like I made the mistake of doing 🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kia ora from another lemmy.nz user :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you only include active last month, we are are at about 70k active users. Active meaning posted or commented.

If you assume 90% are lurking and not active, then that value can be as high as 700k. But likely 2M is off target.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

90-9-1 rule says that you may in fact be correct.

90% are probably lurkers. But there is a good argument to be made that a lot of the recent growth is from the 9% of contributors on Reddit, and some of the 1% also.

Currently I suspect that much less than 90% here are lurkers, but that should balance out over time just due to how social communities work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're likely correct on all of your assumptions, in my opinion :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That number contains a huge number of bots. The active users number is a much better way to track the growth of the Threadiverse.