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!

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      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

  • Jackofmany@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Joined yesterday. Don’t really grasp the different instances yet but world sounded like a default to me

    • Ryumast3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    We’re coming over from Reddit. The damage their CEO is doing is becoming permanent.

  • CurlySue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Long time lurker at Reddit, using Apollo, but now part of Lemmy, due to the disappointing action by Reddit. Thank you to this community for being a great alternative during this upheaval.

    • koraro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’m in the same boat but with Rif, the funny thing is I’ve posted the same here in the last few days as the last year of reddit.

  • Soullioness@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    If you’re having a hard time seeing all the columns on mobile, use “view as desktop” in your browser settings. It’s the only way I can see all the columns. (Android / Opera)

  • Pekka@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I would not be surprised if lemmy.world will outgrow lemmy.ml this month. Lemmy.world has a lot of active communities and meanwhile lemmy.ml. is not allowing new registrations and many of the existing communities look like they are no longer maintained or used.

  • DoubleCore@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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

  • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.infoEnglish
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    2 years ago

    While this is indeed awesome remember that the whole point in federation is having a lot of small communities rather than one or two huge ones.

    In large part the same also happened on mastodon where mastodon.social has 200k people. This is not the way that ti’s supposed to work; no single instance should have this many users, in fact often it’s better to have instances for maybe 50 users at most

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Anyone who is really hoping for the “fediverse” (fuck me I hate that name) to actually play out that way is delusional. 99.9% of casual users don’t care about federation, they care about convenience. They want to go where the people are. This was always going to happen to federated sites as they get big, one will win out as the most popular. As you said, happened with mastodon, will happen here, will happen on any other federated service like peer tube or whatever it’s called.

      • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
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        2 years ago

        you’re right that a large majority of people do not care, but this mentality will begin to change at some point. Also, the entire point of this is that it doesn’t matter where the users are, because they can still join the same communities. Now, there are obviously a lot of things that need to improve in lemmy to make it more usable, but federation isn’t one of them. The ActivityPub protocol is simple, yet powerful and relatively scalable.

  • redditblackoutkekw@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Quick note: beehaw has defederated as of the other day

    I don’t think people should be encouraged to join large lemmys. The federated nature makes your home instance irrelevant for the most part, but it is harder to understand to new users than other corporate sites’: GIVE EMAIL GIVE PASSWORD HERE ACCESS

    • JanoRis@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      though how many of these are duplicate accounts?

      I myself have one kbin account and one lemmy.world account because kbin was not stable enough the first day and i did hear great things about the lemmy.world stability. I do use both though and also considering opening a feddit account

  • Czele@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years 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!

      • hemmes@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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.

  • kairos@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 years 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. :\

  • DizzyMotion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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?

    • Mihuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.