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Does lemmy.world really have 26000 users already? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Almost! At the time of this post, lemmy.world has a whopping 25733 users and is growing fast.

Since my last post yesterday, it has added 4000 new users, making it the clear second-largest lemmy instance out there. Also quickly catching up to lemmy.ml's 36000 (not taking new signups).

beehaw.org (3rd largest) sits at 12500 users, partly because of more restrictive registration requirements.

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

Exciting to see all this growth!

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[-] DizzyMotion@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Hi I'm new here. Does it matter what instance I'm subscribed to? I don't know what the practical differences would really be from my experience?

[-] einsofohr@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

if defederated there's a difference

see explanation here. https://lemmy.world/post/149743

[-] spamellama@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Beehaw just defederated a few instances, which means lemmy.world users can't really interact with their users. Other than that, it affects what shows up in your local feed.

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[-] redditblackoutkekw@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago

Quick note: beehaw has defederated as of the other day

I don't think people should be encouraged to join large lemmys. The federated nature makes your home instance irrelevant for the most part, but it is harder to understand to new users than other corporate sites': GIVE EMAIL GIVE PASSWORD HERE ACCESS

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[-] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 7 points 2 years ago

While this is indeed awesome remember that the whole point in federation is having a lot of small communities rather than one or two huge ones.

In large part the same also happened on mastodon where mastodon.social has 200k people. This is not the way that ti's supposed to work; no single instance should have this many users, in fact often it's better to have instances for maybe 50 users at most

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[-] RaulitoElLobito@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

New user here too

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[-] Soullioness@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

If you're having a hard time seeing all the columns on mobile, use "view as desktop" in your browser settings. It's the only way I can see all the columns. (Android / Opera)

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[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Excited to be a part of something new!

[-] xc2215x@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Lemmy.world is growing for sure. Good.

[-] bix@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

28000 already!

[-] Calcharger@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Huh. I wonder how many people are on kbin

[-] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Kbin has been feeling really lively since the Reddit migration. The admin seems to be pretty busy making improvements to the UI / infrastructure. Keen to see what he does next

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