Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.

🎉 🎉🎉🎉

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 🎉

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

  • sparky@lemmy.pt@lemmy.ptEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    This is amazing news. I’m thinking we’ve reached critical mass where it’s going to be self sustaining and worth using.

  • Kushan@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • smokinjoecalculus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • c2h6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • DVD@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • ElectricCattleman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Don’t forget scammers. The sub I was a regular in had 900k+ members and there were scam bots trying to farm karma with reposts, selling fake merch with stolen art etc. constantly, sometimes multiple at once. That basically never happened to the smaller subs I regularily visited, as they apparently weren’t “interesting” enough for those people. …and I have the feeling that this issue will get only worse with the planned reddit changes and whatnot, but that’s no longer my concern.

  • throwawayforratings@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    So it’s about the size of a smallish-medium subreddit, then?

    Edit: 10% of the size of r/rpg. Or about half the size of r/tarot.

      • throwawayforratings@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        I honestly don’t know. Do you? If you can tell me what the percentage is, I can adjust the figures to take that into account.

    • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      How long have these subs existed? I doubt that either one grew by 150k users within the first week after being created, and the “reddit exodus” has only just begun… if this trend continues, lemmy.world won’t be at “just” 150k anymore in a month or two.

      • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Not to mention a lot of those subs were “default subs” (subs that new users were automatically subscribed to when they signed up for Reddit) before Reddit got rid of those.

  • Targox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Some thoughts

    • So nodes and instants are interchangeable terms
    • wth 140k? I thought we were around the 30k mark or something. Great!
    • Lemmy.ml is bigger than .world but world has a lot more active users? Interesting. I think .world will be known in the future as the redfuge instant.
    • Beehaw defederated? That kinda defeats the point of the fediverse, doesn’t it? I’d be a little mad if some moderator could make that call for me if I was registered to Beehaw
    • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Being able to defederate from an instance is the very definition of the fediverse. You are not beholden to a single provider

    • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Beehaw will certainly federate back when the problem at LW with trolls/fascists/racists/etc will be properly modded. The problem for beehaw is that LW is a victim of its success and beehaw is just protecting itself. Once properly moderated, beehaw will open its arms to LW.

  • HMSLIMA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    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?

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I can’t answer how many different accounts one person has on avg, but I can tell you that about 23k accounts have been active in the last month.

  • halo5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    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!

      • steakfries@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        yep it does. RES was such a great addon made by such cool people. Cant wait to see the kind of things those people are making for Lemmy.