Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That's a 40% growth in about 12 hours!
Welcome new reddit expats!
This probably happened with every Lemmy server out there.
I was having timeout issues with most that I tried to use.
Today everything seems normal.
The one I'm on has been rock solid even while the others were struggling yesterday (it's setup to automatically scale resources with demand).
Good to see Lemmy grow, but I hope that the decentralization will work out so that the large influx of new users will spread out as evenly as possible. General purpose instances help balancing the load, and last time I checked join-lemmy.org there have been several general purpose instances, which seems promising.
I'm here!!! Fuck Reddit!!
In.
Still learning the ropes of it all. I'll try not to be just a lurker like I am ha.
Holy shit
And yet fediverse observer is showing declining user count, while server count, comments and posts are growing steadily.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Why?
I believe most of the 2million users are bots, since many instances didn't have much bot protection for signups. This is why active user count is probably a much more reliable metric.
Man the servers got hit today didn't they!
The future is looking bright
I'd like to say glad to bere here, but tbh it makes me sad to leave behind my Reddit account of almost a decade.
Lemmy look promising though (and still slightly confusing :)
It’s weirdly exciting to have a fresh start on a new platform. Hoping to see those numbers continue to grow!
I know its only one data point, but I just logged on to see how many people were online in a sub i used to frequent and it was down 30-50%, the lowest numbers i've seen all year.
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy