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Happy 10 million! According to FediDB, we have hit 10 million users across the Fediverse! (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 75 points 2 years ago (21 children)

For anyone who needs a reminder: user account ≠ human individual user. There are no bot/captcha protections nor IP restrictions on Lemmy. I'd say we have less than 1 million actual human individual users.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    I'm sure people have multiple accounts too, I have more than one.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have three, this is the most reliable

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  • [+] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I think it's grown quite a bit though. Lots more posts, votes, conversation.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Facts, having been here since the API shit went down, i have seen a LOT more engagement on the platform compared to july 2023

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I remember checking out Lemmy in December 2022, it was barely even a proof of concept. Now it's a whole ecosystem.

    it's incredible how far it has gotten in a short time. And while commercial platforms will only get worse with time, open source platforms will only get better. Growth might not always be a linear process, but I'm feeling optimistic. :)

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    There are indeed many Lemmy instances that have captcha protection, it's really up to the instance admins if they want to protect or not. Many of those "spam" instances do get quickly defederated by the serious ones.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, but I don't think it matters. It's not hyper specialized yet, but the initial problem of "there are no users" is gone. I don't think anything can stop the fediverse now. The protocol is just too useful to not support.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    A lot (if not all) Fedi users have multiple accounts on various instances and platforms, so that also inflates the figure

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    what makes you think this is true or that those alts are significant?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Because you pretty much need a seperate Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon account. I've heard that it's somehow possible to see Lemmy posts from Mastodon, but I haven't really been able to understand it. Apparently, it's janky as hell, but I wouldn't know, as I just have 3 accounts I use, one for each 'service'.

    Since I moved during the Reddit fiasco when servers were overloaded and didn't know what I was doing I just hopped from instance to instance. So now I have at least 7 dead accounts that are still probably counted in the 'users' statistic.

    I'd say one person counting for ~10 is significant, and I doubt I'm alone, even if I am an outlier with my instance-hopping

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Lemmy and Kbin should be pretty interoperable, but Lemmy and Mastodon don't federate particularly well, or at least, the user experience of federation is not great. The formats are just very different since Mastodon doesn't have much of a concept of groups or communities and doesn't have post titles and so on.

    But you can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon and posts to the community will show up in your Mastodon feed, and you can boost, favorite (upvote), and comment on the post.

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