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The user count at the moment of this post stands at 33279 and continues to grow!

To take the #1 spot from lemmy.ml (36185 users and no longer growing), lemmy.world just needs about 3000 new users. Given the current growth rate, that should only be another day or two.

We’re building something here! Kudos to lemmy.world admin @[email protected] for all of his hard work keeping this site running smoothly.

To track lemmy’s growth: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

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[–] CosmicSploogeDrizzle 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

At some point this instance should stop it's indefinite growth IMHO. Centralizing users is not in the ethos of lemmy. ~~I think once it reaches the size of lemmy.ml it should close to new users.~~

EDIT: Ok, there are a lot of good replies here. Maybe reaching the limit of lemmy.ml shouldnt be the limit, but my overall opinion still stands. This instance should consider a theoretical limit where further growth could be detrimental to the overall network. I think celebrating being the largest instance shouldn't be a metric that is considered good in and of itself.

[–] MicroWave 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Then the other instances (including new ones) should step up their recruiting efforts as well.

Also, lemmy.world‘s user base is still nothing compared to Reddit’s 52 million daily users, for example.

Putting a pause on growth over some arbitrary number seems silly at this point, especially when lemmy as a whole is still in its infancy. Putting the cart before the horse to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Easy to say, harder to achieve. Join Lemmy alreayd recommends smaller instances, but if you scroll a bit down, there are Popular which most peple will choose as they are very likely to not understand federation.

[–] Aurix 7 points 1 year ago

Oh users understand it. The problem with smaller instances is they might not have the expertise and funding to run for a long time. And if something goes wrong you can rely on more help. Also you are locked in, because lack of account portability.

[–] danc4498 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hard disagree. Lemmy, much like Mastadon is SO confusing for the mass public to sign up for. If you have an instance that is popular and can handle the load, NEVER turn people away. You just make it more confusing.

If your server can't handle the load, fine. If you want specific users on your instance, fine. But if you're a general Lemmy instance that average non technical redditors want to sign up for, DO NOT TURN THEM AWAY.

Furthermore, Lemmy is just a blip in the radar of Reddit. Worrying about centralization right now is putting the cart before the horse. Let's build up Lemmy whatever way we can.

[–] MicroWave 12 points 1 year ago

Yep, we should have a stable, general-purpose landing place (like lemmy.world is shaping up to be) for new users before they start spreading out.

[–] tara 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To play devils advocate, freedom is the ethos of lemmy. Let this instance encourage migration, whilst users are free to access it from any other instance too :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm happy to see lemmy.world grow as I look inward from kbin.social, and I think we should all be happy the fediverse in general is gaining traction.

[–] MicroWave 9 points 1 year ago

Same. I’m thrilled to see both lemmy.world and kbin.social growing, especially now that kbin.social has refederated.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I agree that the growth shouldn't be infinite, but I also think that line should be higher. But I doubt anything will happen before July 1st.

[–] deweydecibel 6 points 1 year ago

Centralizing users is not in the ethos of lemmy.

Users don't care about your ethos. They just want to be on a stable platform with other people.

Corporations didn't centralize the internet, people did. Corporations just got rich of it.

[–] JoeKrogan 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree. We need the network to be resilient so we can't have all our eggs in one basket.

[–] john8973 4 points 1 year ago

If signup was paused when I signed up I wouldn’t have bothered and looked for something else.

[–] tumble_weeds -5 points 1 year ago