Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.
🎉 🎉🎉🎉
GET READY FOR JULY 1st
Update: We are now past 140,000 users. Growth is still accelerating.
When I checked yesterday it was 91,000 users, it’s now 109,000 and counting up fast!
100,000 🎉
Stats can be found here: https://the-federation.info/platform/73 - this site has been hugged to death for the moment.
Stats can also be found here: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
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I actually like the interface a LOT better than (old) Reddit. I refused to use the new interface because “yuck!” and old.reddit.com doesn’t have a “dark mode,” so I view this as an upgrade, visually (along with other UX aspects). I’m definitely sticking!
RES has (had?) a dark mode for old reddit.
yep it does. RES was such a great addon made by such cool people. Cant wait to see the kind of things those people are making for Lemmy.
Someones already made a browser extension that simplifies hyperlinking to other instance’s communities across the Lemmyverse.
They potential is huge because it’s all open. If the community really wants something, it’ll be done.
I’ve never used Reddit on mobile devices actually…
Wait this has a dark mode? How do I enable that!
I expect an even larger jump when on July 1s and onwards, that is where a lot of growth will come from.
This. Like the apps are still there functioning. I uninstalled Boost and Apollo as my thumb kept clicking on them…
I’m gonna miss Boost so bad.
Hope the dev either releases the code or implements kafkars. I would really like to just continue using boost with lemmy
god it’s terrifying and so true. I didn’t realize how addicated I was to apollo until muscle memory just kept clicking the damn app!
I’m surprised at how quick I flipped my addiction from Reddit to Lemmy…
I spend just as much time here as I did there. But its a happier time too.
with some of the kinks of lemmy i dont think im spending as much time as i was on reddit
but i am spending a decent amount and thats been awesome. i do think the more old school vibe is really effecting how i wanna connect here. its maybe less time but more quality
people have been really nice
im sure that will change at somepoint if our dreams become reality but its been a unique exp if nothing else.
I keep suddenly finding myself using boost a few times daily when the instance I’m on goes down.
Out of curiosity, which app was your preference between the two? I’m on android, so I never used Apollo, but tbh when I saw it I hated looking at it. I was surprised to learn it was the number one app. Did it have better features or something?
It was pretty similar tbh. I liked both. I got an Android phone and an iPad sooo… Had no choice :)
Apollo is a bit heavier on the sliding gestures. Swipe right to upvote. Swipe aaalll the way right to downvote. Left to share, all the way left to favorite… People really liked this. I don’t mind it. Maybe cause I was on iPad? Like arrows are fine :)
The only feature Apollo had that I was missing in Boost was the scrubbing on gifs and videos. You could replay in slow-mo, pause or even go faster with such ease. It was really really nice.
I ended up having to rearrange my phone layout slightly, putting Mlem (how I’m accessing Lemmy) where I used to have Apollo. I did the same thing with Ivory (Mastodon) taking Twitter’s spot too
Had to remove RIF, my muscle memory was like yooo. I don’t even want to use it knowing it’s closing shop.
Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5
who is the .5?
I have one leg mb
consider this my half comment to try and ba…
Musk has a Lemmy account?
I dunno, but I’m sure they’re alright.
Huffman wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
🤷🏻♂️
This is amazing news. I’m thinking we’ve reached critical mass where it’s going to be self sustaining and worth using.
Don’t forget us kbin users too! We’re all in the same boat now
kbin.social still isn’t federating, right? I wasn’t able to access communities
@kbin.socialfrom LemmyThus I propose we rise an army to incorporate kbin into our glorious federation.
Indeed! That’s the beautiful thing about this whole decentralised magic. You can use the app (not just mobile app) that best suits you and your interests, and interact with anyone, anywhere.
It’s wonderful honestly.
it warms my heart to see so many people slowly figuring this out. This is what the internet was meant to be all along.
Might be a dumb question, but I don’t see how I can interact with Kbin from Lemmy.
If I search for communities, I can see ones from other instances but not any from Kbin.
On kbin.social specifically, federation is currently broken. The server saw a lot of stress because of the influx of new users and the dev turned on the cloudflare check, so that instance won’t kneel down. That broke the federation, other instances cannot go through that check.
Oh. That’s unfortunate. Why do they need cloud flare again? Are there other instances of Kbin?
Cloudflare can protect against DDOS. In this instance the people are ddosing the server, although not intentionally. There are just a lot of people trying to open the site. So it’s not malicious but still an “attack”, which cloudflare’s service mitigates. In reddit it was called the “reddit hug of death”, when small sites kneeled down because a post got popular with their links in it.
And yes, there are, the second largest is fedia.io You can find more here:
Yeah those numbers aren’t correct, just fedia.io have more than that https://fedia.io/stats
And here isn’t correcteither https://the-federation.info/platform/184
If you add the users from other instances will more than that.Also when subreddits return public many users will go back to reddit
Really impressive! Also the overall vibe is super positive. Hope it keeps growing. There is a lot of potential.
As one of those new users, I’m loving the potential of Lemmy and I’m enjoying finding my way around, but it definitely needs some UX enhancements, especially around federated communities.
Good to know! I expected that an influx of users would propel development, hopefully that momentum keeps up.
Wow! And it was around 11000 last weekend?! This is great!
I was going to ask what the number used to be! I am new as of last week, and even from when I started, it’s insane to see posts with hundreds of upvotes. Crazy upswing in such a short amount of time. I wonder how long time Lemmy users feel about all this.
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Remember voat? Lol
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It was a shiny clean looking old reddit with great intentions and probably closer to my vision of speech but hot damn it was either people or campaigns because it got super racist real quick. Some have mentioned though that a lot didn’t seem genuine.
Not surprising seeing the crap that’s going on with reddit. I came over from it too this week.
40 million more to go! \o/
Reddit wasn’t built in a day :)
Let’s hope it falls within a day.
Please, no. The more people come to a platform, the worse it gets.
That’s over 9000!
I think we’re still a little bit short of 8.0995899866e+31681 users.
Yup. Just 1.007×10^3520 earths left :)
Who wants to create c/unexpectedfactorial
Nearly up to 20k new users in last 24 hours, it’s accelerating!
What, nine thousand?!
Putting them advanced maths skills to use!
Very interesting. Anyone know why there was a huge drop in Total users for Lemmy from Nov 3 to Nov 4, 2022?. Total users went from 55178 to 37901.
The great dying of Nov 3rd ofc
Not to be confused with the second great dying of Nov 4th.
Never forget.
I mean we are called Lemmings for a reason. You didn’t get that memo?
Did some somewhat sizable instance close down or become invisible to that site or something like that maybe?
Thanos snapped obviously don’t you remember half of humanity turning to dust https://tenor.com/0CEG.gif
Good for Thanos for not forgetting to delete the Lemmy accounts of those who are snapped out of existence.
Looks like a huge drop in user counts a few minutes ago too: Down to 75K as of the time I made this comment despite the chart showing a much higher number immediately before that. I’m guessing there’s something off when it comes to counting the different instances.
the community over on reddit saw the shape that shit’s gonna turn next month and now we’re all scattering and looking for places to land. this platform is close enough to what we came from that heaps of us are landing here.
this is the busiest instance, by the way. not sure about other people but i’m maintaining an account on this instance separate to my primary account simply because i can access stuff faster from here
I likewise am here because of Reddit’s recent idiocy.
Same
I just joined today. Taking refuge from Reddit. I hope this community builds up!
I haven’t used Reddit in years, but I moved here because my brother, a regular Redditor, informed me of this neat alternative and I felt like checking it out. Hopefully many are doing the same. Otherwise I lurk in old-school forums. I prefer the Reddit model though, so I quite like this Fediverse.
it’s pretty nice here i think. it feels more personal than on reddit.
We are at 5k monthly active users. I find that stat more interesting.
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
By Perplexity at https://www.perplexity.ai/search/98165c01-5be7-41be-ba6c-fd77454d3b5a
Was initially surprised about WeChat not being higher just because my understanding was that it was the main social site in China with a lot of the ones popular outside of that country being banned, but I suppose practically nobody outside of China uses it and they are still a minority of the world, big as they are, so on second thought it makes sense. Seeing Pinterest above Twitter genuinely surprises me though, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone talking about Pinterest, mentioning their Pinterest account, or linking to it, and tbh I don’t actually even know what sort of site it is or what it even looks like.
If you google some images, most of the results usually come from Pinterest
123000 now.
132,124!
