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!
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