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Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.

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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!

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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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[–] halo5 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

RES has (had?) a dark mode for old reddit.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someones already made a browser extension that simplifies hyperlinking to other instance’s communities across the Lemmyverse.

https://feddit.uk/post/9352

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[–] Rick 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I expect an even larger jump when on July 1s and onwards, that is where a lot of growth will come from.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

This. Like the apps are still there functioning. I uninstalled Boost and Apollo as my thumb kept clicking on them...

[–] IanM32 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm gonna miss Boost so bad.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't forget us kbin users too! We're all in the same boat now

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

it warms my heart to see so many people slowly figuring this out. This is what the internet was meant to be all along.

[–] FermatsLastAccount 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] darius 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On kbin.social specifically, federation is currently broken. The server saw a lot of stress because of the influx of new users and the dev turned on the cloudflare check, so that instance won't kneel down. That broke the federation, other instances cannot go through that check.

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[–] lp0101 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

kbin.social still isn't federating, right? I wasn't able to access communities @kbin.social from Lemmy

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[–] dimspace 43 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5

who is the .5?

[–] Rick 28 points 1 year ago

I have one leg mb

[–] dimspace 22 points 1 year ago

consider this my half comment to try and ba..

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Musk has a Lemmy account?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Tilted 36 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Good to know! I expected that an influx of users would propel development, hopefully that momentum keeps up.

[–] Crackhappy 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] 65535 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think we're still a little bit short of 8.0995899866e+31681 users.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Nearly up to 20k new users in last 24 hours, it’s accelerating!

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[–] Panda 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Wow! And it was around 11000 last weekend?! This is great!

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[–] smokinjoe 26 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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.

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[–] synodic 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The great dying of Nov 3rd ofc

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Never forget.

[–] nrezcm 13 points 1 year ago

Not to be confused with the second great dying of Nov 4th.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I mean we are called Lemmings for a reason. You didn't get that memo?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

40 million more to go! \o/

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit wasn’t built in a day :)

[–] LUHG_HANI 23 points 1 year ago

Let's hope it falls within a day.

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[–] a_crappy_pirate 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Nanayozuki 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just joined today. Taking refuge from Reddit. I hope this community builds up!

[–] sdrawk 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] domage 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] SuperIce 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

@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.

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[–] realitista 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] Pixlbabble 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] JWBananas 16 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Five of those were from me. Hedging my bets across multiple instances. Can't imagine I'm the only one?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

We're just getting started!

[–] achimoze 13 points 1 year ago

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.

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