Update: 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

  • halo5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    512·
    3 年前

    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!

  • Rick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    3 年前

    I expect an even larger jump when on July 1s and onwards, that is where a lot of growth will come from.

    • dmegatool@lemmy.caEnglish
      301·
      3 年前

      This. Like the apps are still there functioning. I uninstalled Boost and Apollo as my thumb kept clicking on them…

        • Neshura@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          3 年前

          Hope the dev either releases the code or implements kafkars. I would really like to just continue using boost with lemmy

      • lenninscjay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 年前

        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!

        • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
          4·
          3 年前

          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.

          • bmoney@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 年前

            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.

      • BingoBangoBongo@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        3 年前

        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?

        • dmegatool@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          3 年前

          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.

      • LightOnFoot@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        3 年前

        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

      • Pixlbabble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 年前

        Had to remove RIF, my muscle memory was like yooo. I don’t even want to use it knowing it’s closing shop.

  • azura@fedia.io
    431·
    3 年前

    Don’t forget us kbin users too! We’re all in the same boat now

    • UsualMap@fedia.io
      161·
      3 年前

      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.

      • azura@fedia.io
        25·
        3 年前

        it warms my heart to see so many people slowly figuring this out. This is what the internet was meant to be all along.

      • FermatsLastAccount@lemmy.world
        21·
        3 年前

        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.

        • darius@lemmy.world
          20·
          3 年前

          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.

            • darius@lemmy.world
              13·
              3 年前

              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:

              https://fedidb.org/software/kbin

    • Luca@lemmy.world
      161·
      3 年前

      kbin.social still isn’t federating, right? I wasn’t able to access communities @kbin.social from Lemmy

  • sparky@lemmy.pt@lemmy.ptEnglish
    421·
    3 年前

    This is amazing news. I’m thinking we’ve reached critical mass where it’s going to be self sustaining and worth using.

  • Tilted@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    3 年前

    Really impressive! Also the overall vibe is super positive. Hope it keeps growing. There is a lot of potential.

  • Kushan@beehaw.orgEnglish
    31·
    3 年前

    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.

    • flamingarms@beehaw.orgEnglish
      8·
      3 年前

      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.

  • Synodic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 年前

    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.

  • domage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    3 年前

    Oh boy! By the way, there is such a huge ammount of fediverse services… By the way, WTF is Misskey? And how is has 1M users?

    • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      3 年前

      Misskey looks a lot like a federated Twitter alternative, kinda like Mastodon. It seems to be Chinese, which might be why most of us have never heard of it and why it has so many users.

      • Matthieu@piaille.fr
        20·
        3 年前

        @SuperIce @domage
        Misskey is a Japanese twitter-like. It’s actually older than mastodon and very popular in Japan specifically. They have custom emoji reactions under posts, they have animation and advanced markdown, they can have cat ears on their profile pictures, THEY HAVE QUOTE REPOST, chat, advanced search features, etc.

        Misskey have been forked multiple times (foudkey, calckey, etc.) and those forks are more popular in English-speaking communities.

      • Sens@feddit.ukOPEnglish
        52·
        3 年前

        Governments around the world cannot control rebel developers looking for true freedom of speech

  • smokinjoecalculus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    3 年前

    I love being a part of stuff like this.

    It took reddit years and years to get to what it is today (well … a week ago), and I’m excited to be a part of something like that again.

    • c2h6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 年前

      Most importantly, contribute to the discussion and start discussion threads!!

      If everyone sits around watching the party, refugees are gonna come, take a look around, see all the “yeah we beat reddit” posts and nothing else, get bored and leave.

    • DVD@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 年前

      It’s all of our jobs to build this place up to what Reddit used to be. Definitely attainable. My only concern is that the more technical part of Lemmy (federated and what not) will shrink the site’s critical mass and thus prevent it from being a major player on the internet.

      But then again, that excuse was heard back when the current status quo of websites were taking off.

      • ElectricCattleman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 年前

        I think it needs a critical mass to keep enough content flowing, but being a major player on the Internet isn’t as desirable as it once was. A few million active users would be plenty. Once you get to Reddits size, undesirables are attracted… Companies want to advertise, governments take notice, news companies comment about everyday BS, and “investors” want to buy it and find ways to monetizing.

        • DVD@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 年前

          Good point. Once a website is too noticeable, it is much more scrutinized. This has been seen countless times and its much harder to have the free flow of information when everyone is in on it. Then again though, that’s why there are hundreds of instances, you can drop ship in the mainstream one and take a quieter approach.

        • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 年前

          Don’t forget scammers. The sub I was a regular in had 900k+ members and there were scam bots trying to farm karma with reposts, selling fake merch with stolen art etc. constantly, sometimes multiple at once. That basically never happened to the smaller subs I regularily visited, as they apparently weren’t “interesting” enough for those people. …and I have the feeling that this issue will get only worse with the planned reddit changes and whatnot, but that’s no longer my concern.

        • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          3 年前

          Crypto is sullied by the profit motive, which Lemmy lacks; I have high hopes for the fediverse

        • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
          2·
          3 年前

          Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, it’s still a niche interest and carries a lot of negative stigma, much of which is rightly deserved