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Lemmy.world has grown by about 66.6% since reddit's API shutdown (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave to c/fediverse

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Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.

Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.

So, welcome reddit expats!

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[–] Zarxrax 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

14k users per week, 22k users per month, makes it look like a bunch of people tried it and then didn't come back.

[–] morgan_423 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not sure how accurate that part of the stat page is, given we have very little usage data compiled into a short sample size, during a time of high growth.

Most people don't know that the lemmy.world instance was only started on June 1 or June 2 this year, and is only a little more than a month old. A month of crazy growth to become the most popular Lemmy instance that fast, with more growth likely to come.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They shut the API off on Thursday/Friday, and it's a four day holiday weekend. Not sure how final any numbers could be right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some of them probably moved to a different instance, but yeah