An active user on Lemmy is "someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame.” Source. That means lurkers are not counted as active users. There are currently almost 200k total users spread across the top 10 non-bot lemmy instances.

We're really building something here!

EDIT: Looking for a lemmy app? Here's a whole list: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

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[–] Ryumast3r 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

I just told my fairly tech-unsavvy partner the email analogy:

You sign up on Google, I sign up on yahoo, my bro-in-law runs his own from a server in his house. We can all email each other and the email looks mostly the same no matter who reads it, but yahoo isn't Google isn't my bro-in-law. Lemmy = email in general, yahoo = lemmy.ml, Google = lemmy.world, etc.

She immediately got it and has an account on some instance and has subscribed to a bunch of places.

[–] snek 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, it's email but with a nice interface and open 'threads' which we can post on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When can we get an emacs client for lemmy?

[–] ndr 2 points 2 years ago

I think there is a CLI client that supports Lemmy

[–] snek 1 points 2 years ago

I thought the world just agreed to let Emacs die in peace...

[–] BecomingTheFalcon 7 points 2 years ago

This is probably my favorite analogy for it so far, at least as a high level overview. I kind of made the same connection myself and that’s when it clicked for me.

[–] EddieTee77 3 points 2 years ago