EDIT: Just crossed 26000!

Almost! At the time of this post, lemmy.world has a whopping 25733 users and is growing fast.

Since my last post yesterday, it has added 4000 new users, making it the clear second-largest lemmy instance out there. Also quickly catching up to lemmy.ml’s 36000 (not taking new signups).

beehaw.org (3rd largest) sits at 12500 users, partly because of more restrictive registration requirements.

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

Exciting to see all this growth!

    • Morogwen@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yea…everyone joining the same one really defeats the purpose. Now if more than beehaw defederates from them, there’s going to be a mass exodus.

          • pancakes@sh.itjust.works
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            2 years ago

            I’m confused, why does it matter? Can’t you view all content the same regardless of the instance you’re on?

            • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
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              2 years ago

              Yes, you’re absolutely right. Once you understand how to subscribe to communities in different instances, it doesn’t matter much. But new users may not be familiar with the process yet, and I (probably wrongly) assumed that you were one of them. That’s why I suggested the option that worked for me until I figured out federation.

    • Hhffggshn@lemmy.clickEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I joined Lemmy.click because the bigger instances were having timeouts when I tried to sign up. I see those issues have been resolved now, but I like the idea of keeping other instances populated.

      • jcg@halubilo.socialEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Yep, in theory that should spread out the server load since every post/comment/like/etc. in the communities is sent to your instance only once but can be consumed by many people, at different times of day. I do wonder how much help one- or two-person instance are, though, or if they’re actually detrimental to the overall system.

  • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.infoEnglish
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    2 years ago

    While this is indeed awesome remember that the whole point in federation is having a lot of small communities rather than one or two huge ones.

    In large part the same also happened on mastodon where mastodon.social has 200k people. This is not the way that ti’s supposed to work; no single instance should have this many users, in fact often it’s better to have instances for maybe 50 users at most

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Anyone who is really hoping for the “fediverse” (fuck me I hate that name) to actually play out that way is delusional. 99.9% of casual users don’t care about federation, they care about convenience. They want to go where the people are. This was always going to happen to federated sites as they get big, one will win out as the most popular. As you said, happened with mastodon, will happen here, will happen on any other federated service like peer tube or whatever it’s called.

      • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
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        2 years ago

        you’re right that a large majority of people do not care, but this mentality will begin to change at some point. Also, the entire point of this is that it doesn’t matter where the users are, because they can still join the same communities. Now, there are obviously a lot of things that need to improve in lemmy to make it more usable, but federation isn’t one of them. The ActivityPub protocol is simple, yet powerful and relatively scalable.

      • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        I’m mostly focused on going to a place and seeing lots of posts and comments. Behind the scenes, the tech that powers it? While I’m interested in it from a tech stand point, most regular people just don’t care.

        • Skrounge@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          Yeah I see it like different UI to view the same content, just pick the layout or theme you like the best.

        • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
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          2 years ago

          Exactly. Casual users (like me) want to see content and activity before making an account and subscribing.

      • lich_hegemon@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Email works, or used to until giant corporations consolidated hundreds of small providers into a handful. I don’t know why it wouldn’t work for this.

        Sure, the average user doesn’t care how it works. That doesn’t mean they can’t use it as intended anyway.

      • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, combine that with folks not understanding while registering that you can still see things from other servers while registering. They may kick the big one thinking it means they’ll see the most content.

  • Wrena of Delpan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Im pretty sure that Lemmy, even if it doesn’t grow to eclipse Reddit, will have a nice little following of its own that makes it a suitable substitution

  • Jackofmany@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Joined yesterday. Don’t really grasp the different instances yet but world sounded like a default to me

    • Ryumast3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Think of it like your email provider. One is yahoo, one is Google, one is Hotmail, etc. They can all email each other, but they have different rules.

      .world is just another “provider” but by no means a default, in fact it was only started 2 weeks ago.

    • halbekanne@vlemmy.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Some lead developers of Lemmy also seem to subscribe to these political beliefs. But as long as they don’t censor people (and that’s pretty hard seeing as it’s open source and federated) still seems fine.

  • CurlySue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Long time lurker at Reddit, using Apollo, but now part of Lemmy, due to the disappointing action by Reddit. Thank you to this community for being a great alternative during this upheaval.

    • koraro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’m in the same boat but with Rif, the funny thing is I’ve posted the same here in the last few days as the last year of reddit.