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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, itβs now 109,000 and counting up fast!
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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
I expect an even larger jump when on July 1s and onwards, that is where a lot of growth will come from.
This. Like the apps are still there functioning. I uninstalled Boost and Apollo as my thumb kept clicking on them...
god it's terrifying and so true. I didn't realize how addicated I was to apollo until muscle memory just kept clicking the damn app!
Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5
who is the .5?
I have one leg mb
consider this my half comment to try and ba..
Musk has a Lemmy account?
Wow! And it was around 11000 last weekend?! This is great!
I was going to ask what the number used to be! I am new as of last week, and even from when I started, it's insane to see posts with hundreds of upvotes. Crazy upswing in such a short amount of time. I wonder how long time Lemmy users feel about all this.
Really impressive! Also the overall vibe is super positive. Hope it keeps growing. There is a lot of potential.
I love being a part of stuff like this.
It took reddit years and years to get to what it is today (well ... a week ago), and I'm excited to be a part of something like that again.
It's all of our jobs to build this place up to what Reddit used to be. Definitely attainable. My only concern is that the more technical part of Lemmy (federated and what not) will shrink the site's critical mass and thus prevent it from being a major player on the internet.
But then again, that excuse was heard back when the current status quo of websites were taking off.
I think it needs a critical mass to keep enough content flowing, but being a major player on the Internet isn't as desirable as it once was. A few million active users would be plenty. Once you get to Reddits size, undesirables are attracted... Companies want to advertise, governments take notice, news companies comment about everyday BS, and "investors" want to buy it and find ways to monetizing.
Most importantly, contribute to the discussion and start discussion threads!!
If everyone sits around watching the party, refugees are gonna come, take a look around, see all the "yeah we beat reddit" posts and nothing else, get bored and leave.
the community over on reddit saw the shape that shit's gonna turn next month and now we're all scattering and looking for places to land. this platform is close enough to what we came from that heaps of us are landing here.
this is the busiest instance, by the way. not sure about other people but i'm maintaining an account on this instance separate to my primary account simply because i can access stuff faster from here
Not gonna lie in the last 3 days I've commented and had good engagement than I've had for months on Reddit. Also day 3 with no reddit for me.
I just joined today. Taking refuge from Reddit. I hope this community builds up!
I haven't used Reddit in years, but I moved here because my brother, a regular Redditor, informed me of this neat alternative and I felt like checking it out. Hopefully many are doing the same. Otherwise I lurk in old-school forums. I prefer the Reddit model though, so I quite like this Fediverse.
Five of those were from me. Hedging my bets across multiple instances. Can't imagine I'm the only one?
Five?? I just have an nsfw and a sfw one.
Why bother hedging?
As an example, Beehaw just de-federated from lemmy.world and from sh.itjust.works. But since I primarily drop anchor at startrek.website (and since I've replicated my subscriptions across all my accounts), I just flip over to that account and still have access to everything.
Oh? Why did beehaw defederate? Does that mean beehaw is cut off from everyone else?
Expected reasons. Federated systems make moderation more difficult, compounded with poor availability of moderation tools on the platform today. https://beehaw.org/post/567170
This is amazing news. Iβm thinking weβve reached critical mass where itβs going to be self sustaining and worth using.
Nice to see the growth! I came over from reddit, hearing about Lemmy when the blackout was being planned. Lurked a few days and finally joined today! I really like Lemmy.
I've been on reddit for a looong time (arrived there during the migration from Digg) and have seen other migrations from reddit and this one seems most successful and diverse. Way to go reddit for pissing off thousands of subreddits instead of just one or two. The upside of that for us is a variety of communities created in our new home so there's much less of a reason to go back to reddit. Many thanks to everyone creating, contributing, modding, and admining here!
Aside from maybe a few niche subreddits until they find their way over here or I find a replacement community somewhere else, as of now I don't plan on going back to reddit. I haven't been there since the day before the blackout. If I'm really curious about what's going on at reddit, I just check teddit as long as it's available.
I actually like the interface a LOT better than (old) Reddit. I refused to use the new interface because "yuck!" and old.reddit.com doesn't have a "dark mode," so I view this as an upgrade, visually (along with other UX aspects). I'm definitely sticking!
We're just getting started!
I'm a new user and I can't really use it on mobile yet, kind of confusing
Have you looked for Jerboa for Lemmy in you apps store? That's what I'm using, for better or worse.
I started by using Jeroba and I'm having a very close experience to reddit (at least the one I have in boost). I won't download the official app so once boost goes offline it's over for me. Lemmy could sell a "great migration of 2023" badge to help with the upgrading costs.
That is really good to see.
As one of those new users, I'm loving the potential of Lemmy and I'm enjoying finding my way around, but it definitely needs some UX enhancements, especially around federated communities.
I am happy that Lemmy is receiving more attention, but I suspect that these numbers are misleading, some people have more than one account (not my case!) and how many of them were active in the last 30 days?
40 million more to go! \o/
Reddit wasnβt built in a day :)
Let's hope it falls within a day.
