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Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users.

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

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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!
- RES has (had?) a dark mode for old reddit.
  
  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.
  
  I've never used Reddit on mobile devices actually...
- Wait this has a dark mode? How do I enable that!

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...
  
  I'm gonna miss Boost so bad.
  
  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!
  
  I keep suddenly finding myself using boost a few times daily when the instance I'm on goes down.
  Out of curiosity, which app was your preference between the two? I'm on android, so I never used Apollo, but tbh when I saw it I hated looking at it. I was surprised to learn it was the number one app. Did it have better features or something?
  
  I ended up having to rearrange my phone layout slightly, putting Mlem (how I’m accessing Lemmy) where I used to have Apollo. I did the same thing with Ivory (Mastodon) taking Twitter’s spot too
  
  Had to remove RIF, my muscle memory was like yooo. I don't even want to use it knowing it's closing shop.

Don't forget us kbin users too! We're all in the same boat now
- kbin.social still isn't federating, right? I wasn't able to access communities @kbin.social from Lemmy
  
  Thus I propose we rise an army to incorporate kbin into our glorious federation.
- Indeed! That's the beautiful thing about this whole decentralised magic. You can use the app (not just mobile app) that best suits you and your interests, and interact with anyone, anywhere.
  It's wonderful honestly.
  
  it warms my heart to see so many people slowly figuring this out. This is what the internet was meant to be all along.
  
  Might be a dumb question, but I don't see how I can interact with Kbin from Lemmy.
  If I search for communities, I can see ones from other instances but not any from Kbin.

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?
- I dunno, but I'm sure they're alright.
- Huffman wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
- 🤷🏻‍♂️

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

Really impressive! Also the overall vibe is super positive. Hope it keeps growing. There is a lot of potential.

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.
- https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048
  They're coming!
  
  Good to know! I expected that an influx of users would propel development, hopefully that momentum keeps up.

That's over 9000!
- I think we're still a little bit short of 8.0995899866e+31681 users.
  
  Yup. Just 1.007×10^3520 earths left :)
  
  Who wants to create c/unexpectedfactorial
- Nearly up to 20k new users in last 24 hours, it’s accelerating!
- What, nine thousand?!
- Putting them advanced maths skills to use!

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.
- Not surprising seeing the crap that's going on with reddit. I came over from it too this week.

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.
  
  They said the same about crypto, but look at it now
- 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.
- Yup. As the saying goes, Rome wasn't built in a day. Gonna take some time.

Very interesting. Anyone know why there was a huge drop in Total users for Lemmy from Nov 3 to Nov 4, 2022?. Total users went from 55178 to 37901.
- The great dying of Nov 3rd ofc
  
  Never forget.
  
  Not to be confused with the second great dying of Nov 4th.
- I mean we are called Lemmings for a reason. You didn't get that memo?
- Did some somewhat sizable instance close down or become invisible to that site or something like that maybe?
- Thanos snapped obviously don't you remember half of humanity turning to dust https://tenor.com/0CEG.gif
  
  Good for Thanos for not forgetting to delete the Lemmy accounts of those who are snapped out of existence.
- Looks like a huge drop in user counts a few minutes ago too: Down to 75K as of the time I made this comment despite the chart showing a much higher number immediately before that. I'm guessing there's something off when it comes to counting the different instances.

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
- I likewise am here because of Reddit's recent idiocy.
- Same

40 million more to go! \o/
- Reddit wasn’t built in a day :)
  
  Let's hope it falls within a day.
- Please, no. The more people come to a platform, the worse it gets.

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.
  
  it's pretty nice here i think. it feels more personal than on reddit.

Oh boy! There is such a huge amount of fediverse services... By the way, WTF is Misskey? And how is has 1M users?
Edit: typos
- Misskey looks a lot like a federated Twitter alternative, kinda like Mastodon. It seems to be Chinese, which might be why most of us have never heard of it and why it has so many users.
  
  @SuperIce @domage
  Misskey is a Japanese twitter-like. It’s actually older than mastodon and very popular in Japan specifically. They have custom emoji reactions under posts, they have animation and advanced markdown, they can have cat ears on their profile pictures, THEY HAVE QUOTE REPOST, chat, advanced search features, etc.
  Misskey have been forked multiple times (foudkey, calckey, etc.) and those forks are more popular in English-speaking communities.
  
  Governments around the world cannot control rebel developers looking for true freedom of speech

...
- Here are some of the monthly active user statistics for various social media platforms, according to the search results:
  Facebook - 2.96 billion monthly active users (MAUs) [1]
  YouTube - 2.56 billion MAUs[2]
  WhatsApp - 2 billion MAUs[3]
  Instagram - 2 billion MAUs[3][4]
  WeChat - 1.26 billion MAUs[2]
  TikTok - 1 billion MAUs[2]
  Facebook Messenger - 988 million MAUs[2]
  Snapchat - 557 million MAUs[2]
  Pinterest - 444 million MAUs[2]
  Twitter - 368 million MAUs[5]
  It's worth noting that these numbers are subject to change and may vary depending on the source. Additionally, there are many other social media platforms with significant user bases that are not listed here. When choosing which social media platforms to use for your brand, it's important to consider the relevance to your target audience and the quality of engagement on each platform, rather than just the number of users.
  Citations:
  [1] https://buffer.com/library/social-media-sites/
  [2] https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-popular-social-media-platforms/
  [3] https://datareportal.com/social-media-users
  [4] https://statusbrew.com/insights/social-media-statistics/
  [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users
  By Perplexity at https://www.perplexity.ai/search/98165c01-5be7-41be-ba6c-fd77454d3b5a
  
  Was initially surprised about WeChat not being higher just because my understanding was that it was the main social site in China with a lot of the ones popular outside of that country being banned, but I suppose practically nobody outside of China uses it and they are still a minority of the world, big as they are, so on second thought it makes sense. Seeing Pinterest above Twitter genuinely surprises me though, I don't think I've ever seen anyone talking about Pinterest, mentioning their Pinterest account, or linking to it, and tbh I don't actually even know what sort of site it is or what it even looks like.

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.

123000 now.
- 132,124!

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.
- Not at all, just started on this one in case my main goes down.
- Lol, same
  
  Same here

We're just getting started!

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.

Where can I find these stats?
- Here you go: [https://the-federation.info/platform/73]
  I’ll update the main post with it too.
  
  There's definitely more nodes than listed there, and definitely users at those nodes.

Our baby grows up so fast <3

The site seems to be down?
- Yeah it’s probably been hugged to death for the time being
  
  Interesting. I saw a huge decrease in number of nodes (from like 190 to 150) for a bit, wondered what happened, and then it stopped loading. I guess it really was hugged to death
- Found this other site to use since the-federation is down.
  https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
- 💀
  
  @cedarmesa @c2h6
  Diaspora is one of the oldest of the oldest. Much older than mastodon. They’re federated too, but not on the same network.
  Mastodon and lemmy uses ActivityPub. (Mastodon used to run on OStatus, but then switched to ActivituPub later) Diaspora uses its own protocol and refuses to ever switch to a most recent one.
  Some fediverse services however (friendica and hubzilla which are kinda facebook-like) are using multiple protocols and can federate with both mastodon and diaspora.
  
  Beats me, I'm new here too
- Same here - newbie user. Hope to share things with this community

I'm a new user and I can't really use it on mobile yet, kind of confusing
- Jerboa seems to be doing a nice job.
  
  And it's constantly improving too! I just submitted a change to add better localization support and a Japanese translation.
- 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.
  
  I tried it but didn't like it, and was a bit buggy. I ended up installing the website as app, that works okay.
  
  I use F-Droid anyway, and imo everyone should, so I think its fine

@Senseibu Congrats guys 🎉

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That is really good to see.

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?
- 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.
  
  Lemmy will have inflated user numbers, because you need multiple accounts due to defederation issues. It will probably settle down in the future, but for now unavoidably.

Glad to be apart of a growing community. After that bullshit Reddit pulled, I'm happy to be here 🎉🥳
- We are ahead of the game that's forsure. 5 years from now we will think back and feel like the first pioneers.

Past 150k user now!

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
- Being able to defederate from an instance is the very definition of the fediverse. You are not beholden to a single provider
  
  You are right, but nevertheless as a user of said instance I'd be a tad annoyed. But I guess there's nothing holding one back to register on another instance if that happens.
- 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.
- Yeah nodes and instances are kinda interchangeable terminology, instances is the right word to use really though for what we are referring to today, a node could be any server that provides a function or service to the lemmyverse but not necessarily a full instance, however right now, all we have are instances. As the Lemmy is developed we may see some functions of instances being handed off to other nodes, like a database node, to save on compute and storage costs.

I was a reddit user for a long time but I feel at home here. I'm happy with how easy every thing is to use. Good luck.

This is really great news :). I can already see great potential with Lemmy.

In one case that's been discussed, there was a group of moderators; and one of that group chose to set the sub private without the others' consent.

Some growth pains but I'm managing. :) When I upvote, it looks like the vote is undone after a few seconds but it looks like it actually sticks when I reload the page. Same with commenting. Looks like it takes a long while even if it in reality happens more quickly. I think there are some issues with their websockets code or something but the important thing is that it works. :)

Fantastic, keep up the good work everyone!

Que bueno ver y participar, después de varios años casi en el olvido. Y que sigan sumando...

Pretty grand, don't hesitate to allow the tamest of ads to help maintain things!

Are we gonna break 1 mil?

LEMMY SWEEP

Hell yeah. This will be known in history as the time Reddit users began migrating over to Lemmy 🎉🎉🥳

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.
- How much of reddit's userbase is bots?
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  Both of these subs are 15 years old.
  To be clear, I'm just presenting raw data, not making any inferences from it.

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