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Since my last post yesterday, lemmy.world has added over 3000 new users, bringing the total user count to 22000 today (source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). It firmly holds the position of the second-largest lemmy instance, surpassing beehaw.org by a significant margin of 10000 users.

In other news, beehaw has defederated from lemmy.world a few hours ago. How does the third largest instance only have 4 mods for its 12000 users?!

So much going on!

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[–] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's currently at 6k monthly active users, which is significant. However, it's important to note that there are already 16k abandoned accounts.

[–] DekkerNSFW@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of those is mine, after finding out that LemmyNSFW can't reach lemmy.ml, but FMHY can reach both. Probably not the only one.

[–] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have an account on the exact same instances for the same reasons πŸ˜† However, FMHY allows NSFW content, so it's only a matter of time before Lemmy.ml blocks it.

[–] DekkerNSFW@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's sad. I guess it makes sense; just now I saw two posts from "lewd loli" from another instance in my "all" feed, and I imagine that'd be awkward if it happened to lemmy.ml. It does mean I'll need a separate NSFW and SFW account, of which one will probably just be ignored completely. Or I could spin up my own instance, so small nobody will bother to block it.

If this stuff really catches on I predict there will be services built around setting up private instances for that purpose.

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol, ChatGPT

EDIT: I see I wasnt the first to notice now.

You aren't replying to the correct comment.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do you find that info? I want to track that.

[–] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the sidebar of the main page of the lemmy.world website.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you extrapolate 16000 abandoned accounts when lemmy.world was just created a couple weeks ago?

[–] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you claim that there are 22k accounts, but only 6k of them are active users, then there would be 22k - 6k = 16k abandoned accounts.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you said still doesn’t make sense.

Normally, an account is considered inactive after a few months of inactivity and subsequently abandoned after maybe a year or more of inactivity (depending on whether the service enforces this).

The oldest account on this instance is about 2 weeks old.

Then one of those two figures is wrong. If the oldest account is 2 weeks old, there should be 22k active users per month instead of 6k. So, I don't know.

[–] stankmut@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The active user count is the count of all unique users from an instance that made a comment or a post within the last month. So that means we have 6k people posting and commenting and 16k lurkers.