2y ago

Does lemmy.world really have 22000 users already?

Since my last post yesterday, lemmy.world has added over 3000 new users, bringing the total user count to 22000 today (source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). It firmly holds the position of the second-largest lemmy instance, passing beehaw.org by a large margin of 10000 users.

In other news, beehaw has defederated from lemmy.world a few hours ago. How does the third-largest instance only have 4 ~~mods~~ admins for its 12000 users?!

So much going on!

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- It seems odd to me that Beehaw would choose a federated model if this is truly their approach.
  The whole point of federation is that you'll have everyone from everywhere in your community, with exceptions for bad actors.
  If Beehaw says "We want our community to be unified and work exactly as we say" it just seems like they should have forked Tildes or something?
  I was talking to one of the Beehaw admins the other day and I think they mentioned they came from Tildes because they disagreed with how Deimos was running things or something like that. But Tildes is open-source and non-federated, so it seems like the more natural place to jump to for what they want to do?
- Nah, de-federation means they won't be seeing anything from lemmy.world on:
  local posts
  lemmy.world posts
  They will still see lemmy.world comments on other instances, but lemmy.world posts won't appear on the ALL sorting.
  In the same way lemmy.world won't be able to see beehaw posts.
  Basically,
  local only concerns posts that have been submitted on beehaw communities
  All concerns posts submitted on any instance that is federated and to which at least one user on the instance is subbed to.
- No, they can choose to see content from local communities. The users posting in those communities, and the people commenting on those posts, can still come from any federated site.
A lot of users joined Lemmy.world due to the open sign ups. Whether they will be lurking or not remains to be seen.
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- The moderators.
I saw on one of their post that they now have 36 mods, but I guess that's still not enough.
Exciting to see such incredible growth in such a short time! I do feel like that until moderation tools improve some instances might do something similar to beehaw. Given beehaw noted it was hopefully a temporary solution and they have stricter content guidelines than most instances.
- Is beehaw heavily moderated or something?
  
  I mean they just defederated from two of the biggest instances (including lemmy.world) and have the largest list of blocked instances of any instance
Beware of bots and cyber attacks, dear lemmy!
The growth right now is crazy, my chosen site/instance/? is struggling to stay up. I‘m really excited for this like I haven‘t been for any website in a good decade.
It's currently at 6k monthly active users, which is significant. However, it's important to note that there are already 16k abandoned accounts.
- Lol, ChatGPT
  EDIT: I see I wasnt the first to notice now.
  
  You aren't replying to the correct comment.
- One of those is mine, after finding out that LemmyNSFW can't reach lemmy.ml, but FMHY can reach both. Probably not the only one.
  
  I have an account on the exact same instances for the same reasons 😆 However, FMHY allows NSFW content, so it's only a matter of time before Lemmy.ml blocks it.
- On the sidebar of the main page of the lemmy.world website.
- Here are some of the monthly active user statistics for various social media platforms, according to the search results:
  Facebook - 2.96 billion monthly active users (MAUs) [1]
  YouTube - 2.56 billion MAUs[2]
  WhatsApp - 2 billion MAUs[3]
  Instagram - 2 billion MAUs[3][4]
  WeChat - 1.26 billion MAUs[2]
  TikTok - 1 billion MAUs[2]
  Facebook Messenger - 988 million MAUs[2]
  Snapchat - 557 million MAUs[2]
  Pinterest - 444 million MAUs[2]
  Twitter - 368 million MAUs[5]
  It's worth noting that these numbers are subject to change and may vary depending on the source. Additionally, there are many other social media platforms with significant user bases that are not listed here. When choosing which social media platforms to use for your brand, it's important to consider the relevance to your target audience and the quality of engagement on each platform, rather than just the number of users.
  Citations:
  [1] https://buffer.com/library/social-media-sites/
  [2] https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-popular-social-media-platforms/
  [3] https://datareportal.com/social-media-users
  [4] https://statusbrew.com/insights/social-media-statistics/
  [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users
  
  Ok ChatGPT.
  Can people please not do that?
  
  ...ChatGPT?

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