EDIT: Just crossed 26000!
Almost! At the time of this post, lemmy.world has a whopping 25733 users and is growing fast.
Since my last post yesterday, it has added 4000 new users, making it the clear second-largest lemmy instance out there. Also quickly catching up to lemmy.ml’s 36000 (not taking new signups).
beehaw.org (3rd largest) sits at 12500 users, partly because of more restrictive registration requirements.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Exciting to see all this growth!
We’re coming over from Reddit. The damage their CEO is doing is becoming permanent.
the lemmyverse takeover is inevitable
Huh. I wonder how many people are on kbin
Kbin has been feeling really lively since the Reddit migration. The admin seems to be pretty busy making improvements to the UI / infrastructure. Keen to see what he does next
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Joined yesterday. Don’t really grasp the different instances yet but world sounded like a default to me
Think of it like your email provider. One is yahoo, one is Google, one is Hotmail, etc. They can all email each other, but they have different rules.
.world is just another “provider” but by no means a default, in fact it was only started 2 weeks ago.
I’d be one of those users too if I could actually register here. the button just spins forever. Been like that for days now. :\
Check if your username is already in use. I got the spin forever issue when the username I was registering was already taken
Same happened to me. It’s either the username isn’t available or the password is too long
the password is too long.
Uh oh, this is a very bad sign. Make sure you’re not using the same password on Lemmy as on any other service!
Hi, just registered. That was my case, and I simply had to verify my email, which somehow was redirected to the spam folder. So I suggest you check there and verify yours. Good luck.
Yeah, I’ve seen that suggestion. Haven’t seen anything in my inbox nor spam across 2 email accounts now, so who knows. Searching up the username right now and one does pop up with a creation date that might be mine; no comments or posts lends credence to it being mine, maybe…
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I think Lemmy.world is the new meta right now. All Reddit refugees overflow this instance as this is the most generic one and by looking and the number of communities it’s the smarter choice.
I just hope that the influx of users won’t cause too many server issues. I can already imagine what the devs feel like to have so many active users without mentally and technologically preparing for it
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kbin.social has 29.8k local users.
157k is local + all federated servers.you’re reading it wrong, I’ll maybe get to lokking up the link, but you’re looking at a"users in the database" count, which includes posts from the fediverse.
kbin has ~27k usersoh,29k, that was quick
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I wonder if it reflects the fact that Kbin.social’s federation has only recently been re-enabled and some users may have it turned off (it’s an option)
According to fedidb.org, the entirety of the Lemmy network (that uses the Lemmy software) has 140,442, while the entirety of the KBin network (that uses the KBin software) has 32,830.
kbin.social has 29K currently: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0 , fedia has 2.9K
fedidb.org has roughly accurate stats or you can check the nodeinfo url for each instance to get a count of only local users to that instance
That includes people it knows about from Federated servers.
For the real numbers you need to use their nodeinfo, for example: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0
Kbin has 30119 right now.
The lemmy.world mod is active and knows what he’s doing from the looks of it. He upgraded the infra recently.
Hello from kbin.social. Isn’t federation and diversity great?!
It is! Hello fellow kbinian!
Any idea how many users we have?Hello from my personal lemmy instance. ;)
I’m trying to figure out how to make my own
It’s not hard but a little challenging… If your savvy but new to the docker world there is a nice Ansible playbook that will set it up for you. Or if you want turn key with not much tech savvy there is a managed host doing Lemmy’s for 10 a month. Search on here you’ll find it.
I’m going the ansible playbook version. I’ll work on it this coming week when I have time.
Great… Do the ssh keys… Much easier than doing the password setup.
Oooo - get you Mr/Ms/Mx fancypants over there.
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Still new to all this, but it’s nice to hear that they both talk to each other. Meaning they don’t compete, but live together.
In this blessed age, we are all Federation champions. Or we devolve:
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”
He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”
He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”
Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.
It was already very sluggish yesterday
28000 already!
While the number of registered accounts is interesting the monthly active accounts numbers are more interesting as lemmy.world is claiming 8,005 while lemmy.ml is claiming 3,467 and beehaw.org is claiming 2,919. lemmy.world’s growth in posts also indicates that it is the most active of the lemmy instances.
I just posted these graphs through my bot https://mastodon.social/@fediversecounter/110558349415198155
Does that mean lemmy.world didn’t exist 2 weeks ago or had very little users? That’s some insane growth then.
Lemmy.world is extremely new, I don’t think it is more than a few weeks old but the person who created it is very active and working to improve it constantly. I think that shows in its uptime vs the other instances.
Here is the oldest post by ruud, the admin 2 weeks old:
Hi I’m new here. Does it matter what instance I’m subscribed to? I don’t know what the practical differences would really be from my experience?
I an new myself but I dont think it does. Only difference there might be is that some just lag more (lemmy.ml) due to so many users.
Beehaw just defederated a few instances, which means lemmy.world users can’t really interact with their users. Other than that, it affects what shows up in your local feed.
Yes. Beehaw admins have just blocked access to their instance for lemmy.world users. In order to get the most content possible, it’s best to sign with an instance that isn’t blocked by other instances. If you don’t care about that then it doesn’t matter who you sign up with though.
Did they say why they did that?
The rationale appears to be that they don’t have the moderation tools necessary to deal with an unvetted userbase. Lemmy.world doesn’t require any prior user verification, so anyone can join (just like reddit). Beehaw claims that they were receiving a large amount of trolls or other negative traffic from lemmy.world and shitjustworks, so they have temporarily defederated these instances.
This may change if better modding tools come around.
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if defederated there’s a difference
see explanation here. https://lemmy.world/post/149743
Man, when I joined this was a brand new instance with only few users. That wasn’t even that long ago.
Just joined lemmy.world in response to reddit’s BS. Picked this instance because its sounds most normal compared to other gibberish names. Hi everyone!
You picked… Wisely! Welcome! It might be slightly confusing at first but just browse and chat wherever you can!
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Went with lemmy.one because it felt really snappy while navigating communities. I was torn between .world and .one but then I saw that beehaw de-federated from .world which I didn’t like because beehaw has some of the more popular and active subs.
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I realized that there are no downvotes on lemmy? Do I have that right? Wouldn’t downvoting allow for better community moderation?
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I’ve also noticed some instances have updoots and downvotes broken out like Reddit used to, but other seem to aggregate them.
Got it. Yeah reading more about it in some threads now. Can you downvote my posts from your instance while it’s disabled on my instance?
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Genuine question: what guarantees those are not bots?
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I am interested to see where this goes.
I love .world and I’m happy to see it grow. But at the same time I think such disproportion is not great and userbase should be more spread out.
There should be some kind of “tumbler” on join-lemmy
Yes they seriously should. I get the people don’t like the hassle of making multiple accounts or spending too long choosing where to live. I think with these early days though it is a wise thing to do. You don’t have to live on the most popular server to enjoy the experience and talk to everyone.
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We’re here! 10 year reddit user, deleted my account last week. Forcing myself to post and not just lurk. Fellow lurkers please comment a bit. Once traffic is decent you may resume your lurking. Thank you
This is for sure a good thing to note. While bits of potential advertisement can be made by lurking, new users will be more inclined to join and stay if they see people.
15 years for me, ditched reddit a few days ago. platform is toxic, management doesnt care about the userbase at all.
fuck em
8 years on Reddit and it’s refreshing having something new to learn to use
Haha this is exactly what I am trying to do over at Warframe’s instance at dormi.zone
Pre she ate u
Yeah, I am a long time lurker from Reddit as well. Now I started a community for back country skiing !backcountry@lemmy.world . Feel free to come watch me awkwardly post trip pictures trying to get the community going :-)
Subscribed! I’ve only been once and it ended with a concussion so I’ll vicariously live through you guys
Sorry to hear about the concussion! Hopefully you still enjoy the community.
Hi, fellow lurker! I’ve being doing my part commenting here and there. I’m loving this place!
Similar. About seven years? Deleted and moved to lemm.ee and frankly I think it’s good that we’re having to learn about federation etc. An appropriate barrier to participation that is easily overcome if you just give it a little bit of your time. Reddit can go insert itself into the anus of the wicked witch of the west. And Spez can do the same.
Crawling out of lurking to show support. Using Jerboa right now, but I keep getting timeouts and it’s making browsing clunky since all my upvotes/comments are being undone.
But otherwise I love the concept of the fediverse so I’m here to stay
I’m getting that problem too. I saw that word - fediverse - a lot recently and it seemed like a concept that would be beyond me so I didn’t even look. Now that I have, my mind is blown and technology continues to amaze me. The networks just get larger and I love it.
Agreed! Everybody’s been trying hard to encourage each other to keep their favorite communities active. If we just keep doing what we already are, then there’s no reason why Lemmy shouldn’t make it. It’s growing fast!
I made an introduction thread over in !chat (https://Lemmy.world/c/chat) if you’re feeling bored
Haha i’ll check it out, thanks.
