All previous stats have been shrunk to pretty much all the way to the bottom! From 47000 users in May, to well over 2 million at the start of July.

The stats can be found here.

  • Ohthereyouare@lemmy.worldEnglish
    741·
    1 year ago

    So far, this place has the feel of the early days of Reddit.

    Also, the interaction across the Fediverse is very interesting. I hadn’t even heard of it until spez decided to be a dick.

    I’m guessing I’ve yet to scratch the surface, but so far Lemmy and Mastodon are working well. And I ran into @peertube and @tilvids last night which also have some promise imo.

    • ndguardian@lemmy.studioEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I agree about it feeling like the early days of Reddit. I joined Reddit back in 2012, and it definitely is giving me a sense of nostalgia from back then in the best possible way.

  • twistedtxb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    45·
    1 year ago

    Thanks, /u/Spez

    I mean sincerely, because of his poor choices, open source software and federated networks made giant leaps

  • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
    121·
    1 year ago

    Those are the total user stats they represent how many accounts have been registered over all Lemmy instances. With bots registering 80000+ new accounts on some of the open instances, these stats are not very representative of the actual userbase.

    That’s why we usually look at the active last 30 days stats instead of the total users stats because they represent actual users using this site while the botted accounts usually lay dormant.

    Since the first of July, looking at the accounts active in the last 30 days, the active userbase of Lemmy has grown by approximately 7000-8000 users while the userbase of Kbin has grown by approximately 2000 users. Which is still not a bad number but not as great as 2 Mio…