Lemmy's total users continues to surge to over 1.1 million, up from 740k yesterday!

Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you're doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).

Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see the fediverse grow, but if it's overrun with bots... no one will want to stick around.

Welcome all you noobs

(don't hit me, I just got here too)

Me here, fuck u/spez🖕

Lest not forget that Reddit used bots when it went live to drive users there. I don't know what I mean it was just a thought.

As has been asked every time, how many are bots?

I realized yesterday that i haven't been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It's refreshing.

It's mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who'll generate content and start communities?

Can't wait to see this chart come July 1st and the days the follow!

While this is good, I can't help but feel that the branding of the decentralised social media ecosystem is hurting the growth a little bit. The -verse suffix, imo, is just too tainted from all the cryptobro metaverse scams and really makes this seem like some crypto scam as opposed to an alternative to the current crumbling social media platforms.

Regardless, I hope this ecosystem does take off, as it does seem useful and interesting.

There are dozens of us! Baker's dozens! (We come in 13s)

Keep in mind, there's a known issue with bot registration spam so take total user count stat with a big chunk of salt:

https://botsin.space/@threadcount/110581723322900741

Daily active users is a better measure:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats (site stability is iffy right now, but refresh a couple times and it should load eventually)

I'm one of them. Hello!

I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.

Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.

I also made a new account yesterday cause I noticed that it already looked much better than when I last checked. If some of my niche hobby subs move over here I‘d definitely spend more time in the ‘verse.

Performance and design are other big factors I‘m not a fan of right now, I hope someone with expertise in these fields can help the project out, but it‘s already servicable.

Ahh bots, the bane of the internet.

My first lemmy post. Here as a reddit refugee. Looking forward to watching a new community develop as reddit seems intent to go down the road of enshitification. I bailed on FB and Instagram as they enshitified. Reddit looks to be next.

Yes. This is the future I want. I hope to help make the lemmyverse a verse worth inhabiting.

once a few of the reddit mobile apps switch users will flood in.

thats good

Damn, I'm happy to see it moving so fast.

This shit grows fast lol

reddit is no more

Can anyone explain what the point is of creating an instance and filling it with bots? Seems like it just costs money and time but with no benefit? Is it for a future spam campaign?

Every time I read these posts I can't help but be sceptical: It's bots, bots everywhere.

A million of us, a million of us!

Any idea why I can't create a new post? It just spins forever the past 2 days.

Yeehaw!

I've tried Lemmy a bit last night. I know Lemmy threads can be searched and browsed here and I'm not sure it matter, but if it does I hope it's Kbin that wins the mass adoption war. I'm finding the Kbin UI experience more enjoyable. I also appreciate the way it combines a microblog tweet like feature with reddit type usage into the same platform.

This is bananas.

Also spez is a pedophile fuck him

Unfortunately, some of those users are bringing the worst of Reddit with them. Their is an explosion of low value cutesy comments.

It's a good thing but also might not be good if hosting costs become unsustainable. I hope we can cope.