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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.

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

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[โ€“] CosmicSploogeDrizzle 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 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.

[โ€“] 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 :)

[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] MicroWave 9 points 1 year ago

Same. Iโ€™m thrilled to see both lemmy.world and kbin.social growing, especially now that kbin.social has refederated.

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