Lemmy.world officially has 33k users! 3000 users away from becoming the #1 lemmy instance.
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, it should be another day or two.
We’re building something here!
Awesome. Fuck Reddit
Servers: I'm tired boss!
Ruud: That's too damn bad!
I just joined today! I'm doing my part!
A good percentage of lemmy.ml users aren't active vs. lemmy.world.
it was the first one I found, not even sure I knew what I was picking when I signed up.
Same here. Then after doing some more reading I guess it's better if people spread around more. But I can not fault them for doing exactly the same thing.
Hmmm random question... Any idea why I wouldn't be able to join lemmy.world/homeassistant? It's always stuck on "Pending". I tried posting...but also on pending (been like this for about 3 days now)
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.
Easy to say, harder to achieve. Join Lemmy alreayd recommends smaller instances, but if you scroll a bit down, there are Popular which most peple will choose as they are very likely to not understand federation.
Hard disagree. Lemmy, much like Mastadon is SO confusing for the mass public to sign up for. If you have an instance that is popular and can handle the load, NEVER turn people away. You just make it more confusing.
If your server can't handle the load, fine. If you want specific users on your instance, fine. But if you're a general Lemmy instance that average non technical redditors want to sign up for, DO NOT TURN THEM AWAY.
Furthermore, Lemmy is just a blip in the radar of Reddit. Worrying about centralization right now is putting the cart before the horse. Let's build up Lemmy whatever way we can.
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 :)
If signup was paused when I signed up I wouldn’t have bothered and looked for something else.
I agree. We need the network to be resilient so we can't have all our eggs in one basket.
I'm appreciative that accounts are still open; I came over from Beehaw because I want to experience ALL of what LemmyNet has to offer... We all need to support lemmy.world and LemmyNet - I think we're in the early days of pulling Reddit users... I know that's tough in many ways, but I'm ready to do whatever it takes - including leaning up a LemmyNet domain myself. Lets g00000!
We did it Lemmy.world!
So fucking proud of lemmy.world right now. Long live the fediverse!
Is the instance ready for a huge influx of users on July 1st?
Have the same question, I'm quite worried about this as posting and federation is laggy at times
Is there something like a Lemmy guide on how to use it? I'm using jerboa, and finding communities is not a user friendly experience so far. Everything is so separated.
This is great! Hopefully we will be around 50k before the 30th so when people check out Lemmy they will see it's active and join.
Look at that uptime! Huge shout out to @Ruud and the entire admin crew. Don't forget to leave a tip!
@MicroWave wow!
It's a brave new world.
Nice. Still praying for a hide submission feature so I don't see the same thing all the time (Serial refresher!)
@MicroWave now it needs only 1400 more members to be number 1.
Because virtually everyone on kbin joins kbin.social.
It’s bigger by a couple hundred users right now than any singular Lemmy server, but Lemmy as a whole is about 4x bigger than kbin. 42k total users for kbin as a whole, 181k for Lemmy.
I just joined today, enjoying that early breaking ground feel and learning the differences. Also have been using Beehaw for the past week or so but want to experience everything there is as well.
So... Who's gonna stream the moment when we become number 1 community (like Reddark on Twitch lol)
I'm too busy trolling Reddit users who whine about the "one sided" recent mod decisions 😁
As a Kbin user I went to take a look at Kbin, it's about 40k users in all. Looks like all in there'll be more than 100k users.
The monthly stats for users for both Kbin and Lemmy are encouraging, the numbers really spiked in June. I hope this continues for a while yet.
There will be another spike on July 1st IMO, that's when reddit 3rd party apps will stop working, after that things should settle, it's possible some people will go back to reddit but things should normalize after that.
Unless some other big corp decides to sh*it on their users like reddit is doing lol.
There's a greater likelihood that the content creators are the ones moving. Most of the reddit power users likely used third party apps. Most of the reddit power users are also the ones who wrote most of the comments worth reading.
So if on june 1 most of the reddit power users flee, reddit's enshitification will have reached a terminal stage. Eventually, reddit will stop having things worth reading, and the lurkers will all move over.
I think we're in for a long decline of reddit a la facebook. However unlike facebook, there isn't a market of old people/foreign markets that can fill their user numbers.
I don't think reddit will ever actually die. I'll probably still even check it for information I need if it's a community that didn't move since I have a few eSports I follow and people post tournament threads on Reddit and no where else. But hoping that people move over still. Unfortunately it's a sub that's been re-opened and lots of users aren't even "redditors". A lot are on Reddit for the specific topic :/
I agree, I know people irl who will be quitting on the 1st once they can't use Apollo.
I think the biggest issue to user growth will be getting the word out that this place exists. Like a lot of people, I'm trying to find a more ethical alternative to Reddit and had no idea kbin was a thing.
Honestly: how do I display a feed of only the posts in subscribed "magazines"? I get random posts from random places in the fediverse.
In addition to the other suggestions, I'd recommend Jerboa for Lemmy if you're on android. I feel like the UI is a little more user friendly and streamlined than the mobile site.
You can switch between Subscribed, Moderated, Favourites and All if you hover over the second button from the right, the one right next to your username.
You can also set the default to showing Subscribed in the settings, so instead you go to kbin.social/all
kbin.social is 36 258 ATM, more than any Lemmy server.
I'm trying to like kbin, but it's just kludgy in all the wrong places and I unreasonably hate the fact that they decided to call them "Magazines". Eww.