Lemmy active users grew by an astounding 1600% in June
From 2,997 active users across all lemmy instances at the beginning of June, the number increased to 52,797 by June 30th. Source.
An active user on Lemmy is "someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame.” Source. That means lurkers are not counted as active users.
We're really building something here!
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[A line graph is shown depicting the number of users on Lemmy over one month's time. The horizontal axis lists the date of each reading, with an interval shown for every day. The earliest date begins at '2023-05-28' and the most recent date is given as '2023-06-26'. The vertical axis measures the number of users, with intervals marked at every 5,000 users, with an upper limit of 50,000 users. There is a green trend like and a blue trend line graphed from plot points at every horizontal interval. The green line is labelled 'Active users monthly' shows increase over time. The line remains flat at approximately 1,000 users from the '05-28' date mark to the '05-31' mark, then begins to gradually increase to approximately 10,000 users, starting to show a trend similar to the beginning of an exponential growth curve. At the '06-11' date mark, the line begins increasing at a relatively steady rate, with the last marked date showing just over 45,000 users. There are two points in which the line shows an apparent indication of levelling off in user count, before then showing a sudden increase in users again, with neither of these points significantly impacting the overall upward trend. These points are at the dates '06-16' and '06-21'. The second graphed line, the blue line, is labelled 'Active Users Half year' and starts at approximately 3,000 users, but follows an almost identical trend shape as the green line as it increases approximately parallel to it. The blue line ends at around 48,000 users at the final graphed point.]
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Very cool! Thanks for doing this!
good human
Registration and discovery needs to be simplified tremendously for long term viability. But it’s a good start.
From the outside looking in, the whole model seemed needlessly complicated. So it’s like there’s a LOT of reddit.coms over here? But they’re all the same? But also different? What’s the difference? Which one do I sign up on?
But then I get here and realized it doesn’t really matter that much, since you can more or less use all of them regardless of which one you sign up for.
Something about the way users try to communicate what Lemmy/Fediverse IS, is the complicated part. It’s like everyone wants to jump straight to the more technical details behind how the model works; which probably scares off a lot of the people who just want a place to pop in and talk about their hobbies.
I just told my fairly tech-unsavvy partner the email analogy:
You sign up on Google, I sign up on yahoo, my bro-in-law runs his own from a server in his house. We can all email each other and the email looks mostly the same no matter who reads it, but yahoo isn't Google isn't my bro-in-law.
She immediately got it and has an account on some instance and has subscribed to a bunch of places.
Yeah, there should be simple "how and where do I sign up and find my favourite communities". I feel like there is lots of tech talk here because lots of tech stuff needs to happen before these sites are ready for the full moderation suit and for supporting the most basic aspects of Reddit communities (like flairs)...
The thing that’s weird to me is that say I like football (soccer). I’m sure there are dozens of “instances” have a soccer community, but which one should I follow? It seems like this architecture fragments the user base too much.
I keep seeing this said about lemmy but kbin was identical to any other site. So I looked up what the process is for lemmy and, aside from like 2 glitches to look out for it was exactly the same.
Please tell me what is difficult.
My issue was I didn't know where to go to sign up. It took me a little time to understand the fediverse, then I had to figure out what instance I should sign up for. After that I started hearing some instances weren't accepting new accounts but didn't know if that was a thing everywhere or only one instance. I consider myself above average compared to the general public when it comes to my capabilities with the Internet and computer tech in general, it's never taken me days to understand stand how to sign up for a website like this before.
It does seem simple now that I'm here and understand things better. It's just a learning curve; this is unique to any website\forum\whatever I've played with before.
And sadly, the software seems to be little better than proof of concept quality. It seems poorly architected for functionality, usability and scalability.
UX is on par or better than reddit back when I joined. Mobile apps are certainly better.
Similar experience to reddit and apps, albeit slightly clunky.
That will be interesting to see how this graph behaves after 1st july
I imagine it's going to be a near-vertical spike.
I can't wait for this place to blow up. Definitely missing some of my niche subs but hopefully they will appear at some point!!
I can’t wait for this place to blow up
Not literally though. But I have to say it's giving me nostalgic feeling of old reddit when it would struggle to keep up with inflight of new users/activities.
The community here feels significantly more wholesome than Reddit in recent months. It's nice seeing a lot of meaningful conversation without hate and spam.
Any examples? Why not start them yourself... Im sure others are thinking the same thing and searching for them. Especially now
I'm a little hesitant for big growth, came with the first wave of Redditors back when the news was fresh, but I'm trying to be optimistic. More people means more content, after all.
I also miss the niche subs, and ngl also my snoovatar, he was a nice little guy.
The snoovatars were absent on Apollo so I don’t miss them as much but damn do I miss the content centric design - the stock app doesn’t show flairs or u names in the default view, which sucks.
working on bringing mine over. hopefully nosleep comes with - they've been on the fence
Reddit refugees flooding the border
Truly though. Less than 3k users a month ago and now over 50k and counting? Basically everyone here is looking for a reddit replacement. Hopefully those 3k other people don't mind lmao
Guilty.
I come seeking refuge from the shit storm that is reddit leadership.
Uh. I wonder what might have caused that...
The real challenge will be seeing if the servers can handle the new traffic. It's already a bit on the slow side loading posts
I am so new here and have generally no idea what's going on, but I an excited to be here at the beginning.
My only question is if I am required to wear pants?
just created an account. looks familiar but janky
same, hopefully it'll become less of a mess later on
I recommend trying the connect for lemmy app. It is the most polished way to browse I have found so far.
I recommend trying the connect for lemmy app. It is the most polished way to browse I have found so far.
Reminds me of classic reddit of old
I kinda love the jankiness it's reminiscent of how the internet used to be.
This is a blast from the past. It takes me back to 13 or so years ago when all of us Digg users made the migration over to Reddit.
That’s not a bad thing, though, as this place has promise! Hopefully increasing numbers of Reddit users take the plunge as the site continues its death spiral.
It's funny yeah I remember the redditor panic when all you guys showed up, who'd have thought we'd all end up being refugees together
I thought the site was unusable (on mobile at least) until I started using wefwef. It’s literally just Apollo - to the point that I’m not sure it’s legal lol. Highly recommend it or some other client over trying to use the raw website.
I'm hungry, man. Can you come to me?
easy to say when people are hosting this out of their own pocket and devs putting on countless hours of free labor to make this work. even ads are not rolled in yet to find resources to host ur sorry ass and ignorant comment.
Refugee here. Been poking around trying to find the right place in the fediverse for ages, while lurking on reddit for pics, memes, and news. The impending death of reddit apps was just the push I need to finally make a decision. Happy to finally be here and looking forward to the expansion of a decentralized decorporatised internet
The most wonderful part of this, for the unfortunately uncoordinated like me:
scrolling and accidently clicking a random card is now always a random post and not an ad launching a browser window I immediately close and curse.
It's amazing how bad it got for awhile out there.
Don't worry, I'm working on a solution to this. My proposed Lemmy client will auto-inject ads into your feed so you can really recreate the Reddit experience.
Oh good, I was wondering when I could expect 'normal' behavior.
Honestly I wonder if the Lemmy client writers are going to be a strictly patronage model. The wefwef.app team has done a crazy good job illustrating what the free minimum is.
First day, checking in. So far, so good.
Hopefully a viable Reddit replacement here
I'm optimistic. Seems to be catching on quicker than I'd expected.
Idk exactly what I'm doing but I'm having fun!
Thank you for welcoming us to the Fediverse. I hope we can bring more good than bad. People are so fragile and flawed, but we can try to not be assholes or own at least own up to it if we do.
❤️ Free hugs! ❤️
Happy to be part of the sudden stress test of your software and infrastructure! June 30 hit and I needed a place to go. Found Lemmy. Found Connect for Lemmy. I don't know if this is the future for a Reddit-like service, but I'm pleased to see some real activity and I'm glad to be a part.
My first comment!
Just heard about Lemmy from a random tweet. I was banned from reddit after ten years!
This feels nice. It’s cool seeing the precise up and downvote counts. Feels like ancient reddit.
Connect for Lemmy seems the best all around Android app so far. Have an eye on Boost for Lemmy and a few others.
We'll see how this goes as usage ramps up.
That's what I'm using here. It has a few bugs (I can't turn off swipe gestures, and pull down to refresh never works), but it's minimal, to the point, and easy on the eyes. I think Boost for Lemmy has a good shot at being the popular client when it's ready, but for now, Connect seems to be stable on my device. I do like the web desktop UI.
I can't be too critical though because the whole community and user base is so young. If the Lemmy.world stats are any indication, the app userbase must be exploding too, testing paths that just haven't been tested much before.
The biggest issue with this website is the lack of basic explanation of how it works. Imo, the moment someone visits this website for the first time, a pop-up should appear explaining what this is, and how it works in maybe one simple paragraph at most.
Just landed here from Reddit. I feel like I need a breakdown on how to use Lemmy and KBin and the differences and just everything in general lol
Wefwef is a good webapp that looks like Apollo that’s a lot nicer than the lemmy webapp
Edited name because I’m dumb
Thanks I’ll check that out! Apologies for the dumb question but I’m still new to all this but do I have to create a new username and login for every Lemmy website or instance or can I just use my lemmy.world one?
Downloaded Connect on Android and I'm really enjoying it. I hope to see Lemmy do well!
Is connect another way to use Lemmy?
It's an app yeah. I don't know if it'll be the best but it has the merit of being available on the play store right now. It's okay.
Yeah it's just an app on the play store for Android. I didn't know anything about it, but after using it for like a day I've gotten used to it. I migrated from RIF.
The main thing that bothers me about Connect are the 'Material You' colours. Can't figure out how to get it just black and white. So for now I'm on Jerboa.
I just have the theme set on dark mode which is what I'm used to. I haven't seen the material you stuff.
Posting so I'm also a statistic.
My mommy says I am a statistic waiting to happen! I guess this is what she meant!
You’re 1 of 1 I’ve replied too, so I guess you’re kind of a big deal.
I'm loving Lemmy, but man they have to make it a lot easier to sign up and get on a server.
It's gotten way better than a week ago, I'm using Jerboa, they just had an update and I'm really amazed by it. Of course it's not perfect, but it's enough for now.
Main thing is to make an account on any of the servers, doesn't matter which one. After that, it's easy.
Sort on 'All', scroll and if you come across a community you like, click and subscribe.
I think the difficulty adds a bit of a natural filter for those that really want to leave Reddit vs those that just want to check things out.
But yes, easy access would make it more mainstream which may be better for long term growth of the platform.
Getting users to come and try is great, but the real challenge is to keep them on the platform and get them to contribute. Fingers crossed!
Active user here, checking in! Fuck You r/spez
Happy to be here, even if I'm still confused asf as to how Lemmy works. Jerboa isn't working very well for me, but I'm super thrilled to be a part of the migration!
I’m actually really impressed with how similar an experience using Lemmy is to actual Reddit. We don’t have the established communities just yet, but the platform itself seems like a really good replacement
I didn’t come sooner because I thought it was going to be too different. Last night Apollo stopped working for me so I followed a link talking about wefwef. Been here 10 minutes and the similarity to Apollo is awesome. I know Christian said he was going to move on to other things but if he could just invest his time in this instead…god I’d be so happy!
I'm in the same boat, but coming from RIF. Tried to use Mastodon before but wasn't huge on the interface. I'm pleasantly surprised so far, I'm using Connect for Lemmy with reverse list view and it's ...not terribly dissimilar.
That said, it's obviously still new, and slow. I'm going to see where this goes.
Yep, both Connect and Liftoff on the play store are good
Commenting to pump those numbres up!
Gotta stay active every day.
Insane Growth
I'm not sure it was all warm blooded. Active, warm blooded users are probably the real metric.
Using 'Active Users' as the metric of growth is much more reliable than the total user count since there have been rashes of instances started up just for spam accounts.
It even mentions this as a note on the fedidb site:
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
Writing here so my account counts!
Here's to hoping that number triples in the next few days.
Glad to be here! Lots of similarities to Reddit but without all the fluff. Almost like how Reddit used to be. Loving it here so far!
And people here aren't assholes (yet).
Screw you buddy!
;)
Aw man, that means I'm not counted for lurking.... Now I am. Yaaay first comment
Hey! I wanna be counted!
Now I am!
Same, happy to be here for some positive change!
Same, happy to be here for some positive change!
Here's to the 100k!
Pumping it up! 😁
Just came over last night after RIF shut down. Might as well make my first comment here for the stats. Here's to Lemmy's continued growth.
Also RIF user, and while IMO you can use Reddit pretty decently with FF and uBlock on Android, they fucked up big time with their behaviour. No way in hell am I further supporting a company with such a hostile and disrespectful behaviour. So here I am, and hopefully, many communities will follow.
EDIT: Also first comment, yay!
Yup. Came over from RIF too. Only way I had viewed reddit, for going on 9 years. No way I'm using that dogshit app. Like it here.
Just signed up on lemmy.world after I saw Boost for Lemmy is gonna be a thing. Like many here I'm just a tiny little bit confused, but will probably figure it out.
Same, this Connect for Lemmy is decent enough and I find it a lot more user friendly than the web version but I'll be right on the Boost app when it becomes available
Adding my voice! Exploring this whole new world. It's all quite exciting.
Posting to become a statistic! Yay for being a number!!
Okay, you've convinced me to become a statistic too.
This is good. I had an account on here for a couple of weeks before starting to comment, so I guess I'm now an active user.
I don't know where this site will go, but it's certainly very interesting seeing an actual community on these little servers.
Yes, thanks to reddit ig
Lemmy gang gang.
Thank you for providing this platform.
Here from the mass Reddit exodus! Excited for a new platform to learn and explore!
Welcome! You got in before the (probably) huge influx.
Honestly, once apps are improving (though current ones are actually pretty nice) and more users are here - what would I be missing from reddit? Nothing. When I need old content I use Google to get it from reddit, but for anything new there is not a single feature I miss dearly (might be different for moderators).
Can't wait for it to continue growing
I love to see the growing numbers. The larger the numbers the more communities will be filled and the better the engagement will be.
I am new with own instance. Looking around and trying a few things. Glad it is so easy to use. Any tips for starters? Thanks for the applist
Wanting to be counted too!
+1
Sign me up!
Been "Semi" active on here since the Reddit black out.
The barrier to entry is super high but hopefully websites and apps are developed to make it easier for people to join. (Sync for Lemmy)
Let's also do out part and post/comment to add content to this website to make it appealing for new users.
Is it really super high? It might not be very intuitive, but there’s nothing truly complicated. Maybe I’m out of touch.
Takes some time to load a single posts. 😐
The flux of users is probably more than what the servers can handle. It will take time to smooth it out.
Is this the last Reddit hug of death?
Until they ban NSFW content
I could imagine that being a bigger knife in the back than killing 3rd party apps.
Killing old.reddit will be big too
And probably coming relatively soon as it's much easier to scrape
From now on it's going be a slow creep of the hand up the thigh.
I don't believe so but I do think they will see continual decline after this. I'm envisioning more of a repeat of MySpace where everyone just loses interest.
I’m in that graph, and wow my curves look good.
I'm in this photo and I like it.
I'm in this picture and I do like it
Good luck, tomorrowcould be a really chaotic day