2y ago

Lemmy.world officially has 40k users, making it the #1 non-bot lemmy instance!

In addition to lemmy.world, the #2 real lemmy instance, lemmy.ml, seems to be growing as well.

Our neighbor, kbin.social, has also reached the 40k milestone today.

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bruh that k6qw lemmy instance 45.9k users right now but ZERO posts. wtf.
these bots are gonna be a problem
And my conspiratorial side makes me think that they're not here by accident
- Oh, found a post by the admin of that instance, it's from a week ago
  its the default setting of every new instance to require approval, on my instance i dont require email verification so i thought i could at least have people write something to let me know they’re human. in the end no one uses my instance so I just opened it up, maybe after some registrations ill make it an application again.
  Boy oh boy, @gaylord you're in for a fun time there, bud
  48k users right now btw, he's getting a lot of bots
"Non-bot Lemmy instance" Go talk to the beehaw'ers about that, they're convinced we're the bottiest of instances. =P
- Not bottiest. They specifically said it was the trolliest.
- More accurately they defederated from lemmy.world due to "concerns" about it's open sign-ups policy and the potential for "abuse".
- Nothing of value was lost
Gotta love that uptime too!
I actually just had to bail on lemmy.ml and come over to lemmy.world.
Turns out the zScaler web filters they use at work have a blanket filter on the entire .ml TLD... Can't be having that now...
- ELI5 on the blanket filter please
  
  I think they mean that work has a filter that blocks *.ml (anything that ends in .ml)
Here representing kbin! I honestly keep trying to go back to a lemmy.world from time to time but I prefer kbin's experience overall. Fantastic news for all involved!
- It's such an amazing system! Really impressing me and I plan to stay regardless of what Reddit does!
The next 40K will be even quicker.
Congratulations 🍾🎉🎊 lemmy.world
I'm new here, too! Just made the account. <3 Never liked Reddit, but open source stuff is always nice, plus, Lemmy looks way cleaner. So uhm... henlo!
good
Why is country shown as Finland? The server is host in Germany AFAIK.
- Hey that sweet Finnish flag was the reason I chose it! I feel cheated now :(
  
  There's a Finnish-run instance at https://sopuli.xyz/
  (no affiliation, I just heard about it somewhere else)
- IIRC it's hosted at Hetzner, and they have datacenters in Germany, Finland and the US. That could be the reason that the wrong flag is showing up.
I don't understand. You say 40k but on the statistics page of kbin https://kbin.social/stats it says 200k users (?)
- kbin.social is a Kbin instance, not a Lemmy instance, so it's not stopping lemmy.world from being the biggest Lemmy instance.
@MicroWave I don't know about bots but I think Kbin has a little over 41K users right now: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0
- Kbin user here. I didn't put much thought into which server I joined. Kbin sign-up was easy so here I am. It's cool that it doesn't really matter which server you're from!
Great news! But how do lemmy.fediverse.observer and fedidb.org separate "bots" from "non-bots"? It feels like "we don't have any bots" is a pretty laughable thing to say.

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