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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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[–] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Image Transcription: Line Graph


[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.]


^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

[–] Nackledar@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago
[–] xpinchx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Very cool! Thanks for doing this!

[–] CyberedCake@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[–] baggyspandex@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Registration and discovery needs to be simplified tremendously for long term viability. But it’s a good start.

[–] BecomingTheFalcon@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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. Lemmy = email in general, yahoo = lemmy.ml, Google = lemmy.world, etc.

She immediately got it and has an account on some instance and has subscribed to a bunch of places.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yep, it's email but with a nice interface and open 'threads' which we can post on.

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[–] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, this scared me off for weeks because I didn't want the hassle. Turns out it's way easier than those dorks were making it seem!

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[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Agreed. I feel like the apps in development are trying to make the signup process a bit easier though, so we’ll see how that goes.

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[–] sblanziko@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That will be interesting to see how this graph behaves after 1st july

[–] Fireinthesky7@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I imagine it's going to be a near-vertical spike.

[–] DangleBerry@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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!!

[–] shriek@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] WontonSoup@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Any examples? Why not start them yourself... Im sure others are thinking the same thing and searching for them. Especially now

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[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reddit refugees flooding the border

[–] o_oli@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] Zibani@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh. I wonder what might have caused that...

[–] ex_redditor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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[–] AnaNg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am so new here and have generally no idea what's going on, but I an excited to be here at the beginning.

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[–] food@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (14 children)

just created an account. looks familiar but janky

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[–] cakeistheanswer@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ante@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

First day, checking in. So far, so good.

[–] 0ddysseus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] goldenboy48@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully a viable Reddit replacement here

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[–] elbowdrop@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Idk exactly what I'm doing but I'm having fun!

[–] FantasticPhaneron@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] davewritescode@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Wefwef is a good webapp that looks like Apollo that’s a lot nicer than the lemmy webapp

Edited name because I’m dumb

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[–] randomwither@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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!

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[–] TheTechNerd@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] jadedwench@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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! ❤️

[–] NotMartyMcFly@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm loving Lemmy, but man they have to make it a lot easier to sign up and get on a server.

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[–] UnnamedNick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] djmoneystax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Downloaded Connect on Android and I'm really enjoying it. I hope to see Lemmy do well!

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[–] Koa@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Posting so I'm also a statistic.

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[–] Ugo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] MC0311@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Active user here, checking in! Fuck You r/spez

[–] Baohwong@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] trauma04@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] sbo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Commenting to pump those numbres up!

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[–] SpezChokesOnDik@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Here's to hoping that number triples in the next few days.

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