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Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users. (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Senseibu@feddit.uk to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Rick@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dmegatool@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

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

[-] IanM32@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna miss Boost so bad.

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[-] lenninscjay@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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!

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[-] dimspace@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5

who is the .5?

[-] Rick@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I have one leg mb

[-] dimspace@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

consider this my half comment to try and ba..

[-] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

Musk has a Lemmy account?

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[-] Tilted@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Panda@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Wow! And it was around 11000 last weekend?! This is great!

[-] flamingarms@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

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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[-] smokinjoe@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] DVD@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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.world 8 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] c2h6@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] realitista@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

123000 now.

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[-] Nanayozuki@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I just joined today. Taking refuge from Reddit. I hope this community builds up!

[-] sdrawk@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] a_crappy_pirate@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Not gonna lie in the last 3 days I've commented and had good engagement than I've had for months on Reddit. Also day 3 with no reddit for me.

[-] JWBananas@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Five of those were from me. Hedging my bets across multiple instances. Can't imagine I'm the only one?

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[-] Artanis@feddit.it 16 points 1 year ago

40 million more to go! \o/

[-] Senseibu@feddit.uk 23 points 1 year ago

Reddit wasn’t built in a day :)

[-] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Let's hope it falls within a day.

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[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

That's over 9000!

[-] 65535@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I think we're still a little bit short of 8.0995899866e+31681 users.

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[-] halo5@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

RES has (had?) a dark mode for old reddit.

[-] steakfries@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Senseibu@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someones already made a browser extension that simplifies hyperlinking to other instance’s communities across the Lemmyverse.

https://feddit.uk/post/9352

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[-] sparky@lemmy.pt 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] jzzvid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

We're just getting started!

[-] azura@fedia.io 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lp0101@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] sorenant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thus I propose we rise an army to incorporate kbin into our glorious federation.

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[-] achimoze@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Nice to see the growth! I came over from reddit, hearing about Lemmy when the blackout was being planned. Lurked a few days and finally joined today! I really like Lemmy.

I've been on reddit for a looong time (arrived there during the migration from Digg) and have seen other migrations from reddit and this one seems most successful and diverse. Way to go reddit for pissing off thousands of subreddits instead of just one or two. The upside of that for us is a variety of communities created in our new home so there's much less of a reason to go back to reddit. Many thanks to everyone creating, contributing, modding, and admining here!

Aside from maybe a few niche subreddits until they find their way over here or I find a replacement community somewhere else, as of now I don't plan on going back to reddit. I haven't been there since the day before the blackout. If I'm really curious about what's going on at reddit, I just check teddit as long as it's available.

[-] Kushan@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

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.