Lemmy active users grew by an astounding 1600% in June

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[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.]

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

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

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!!

Reddit refugees flooding the border

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

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.

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

just created an account. looks familiar but janky

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

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

Hopefully a viable Reddit replacement here

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

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! ❤️

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

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.

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!

Posting so I'm also a statistic.

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

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

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

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.

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!

Insane Growth

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

Commenting to pump those numbres up!

Just signed up on lemmy.world after I saw Boost for Lemmy is gonna be a thing. Like many here I'm just a tiny little bit confused, but will probably figure it out.

Glad to be here! Lots of similarities to Reddit but without all the fluff. Almost like how Reddit used to be. Loving it here so far!

I’m in that graph, and wow my curves look good.

Posting to become a statistic! Yay for being a number!!

Aw man, that means I'm not counted for lurking.... Now I am. Yaaay first comment

Writing here so my account counts!

Adding my voice! Exploring this whole new world. It's all quite exciting.

Good luck, tomorrowcould be a really chaotic day

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

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.

I love to see the growing numbers. The larger the numbers the more communities will be filled and the better the engagement will be.

Wanting to be counted too!

Lemmy gang gang.

I am new with own instance. Looking around and trying a few things. Glad it is so easy to use. Any tips for starters? Thanks for the applist

Takes some time to load a single posts. 😐

Yes, thanks to reddit ig

Here's to the 100k!

I'm glad to see Lemmy is getting so much attention, just hoping not many people give up and go back to Reddit after just 2 days lol

Can't wait for it to continue growing

Thank you for providing this platform.

This is good. I had an account on here for a couple of weeks before starting to comment, so I guess I'm now an active user.

Honestly, once apps are improving (though current ones are actually pretty nice) and more users are here - what would I be missing from reddit? Nothing. When I need old content I use Google to get it from reddit, but for anything new there is not a single feature I miss dearly (might be different for moderators).

Here from the mass Reddit exodus! Excited for a new platform to learn and explore!

Been "Semi" active on here since the Reddit black out.

Lemmy gang

Thank you for posting the app links!

Glad to be of service

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!!

Just came over last night after RIF shut down. Might as well make my first comment here for the stats. Here's to Lemmy's continued growth.

Fuck spez. What an idiot.

It'll be interesting to see how Lemmy grows. I am also coming from reddit but I'm excited to see how lemmy's culture grows over time.

Really enjoying my time here

I want to say something like "we like the stock" without coming across as a silly reddit memelord. But we like the stock.

Just signed up for lemmy and this already feels better than reddit. Hope it gains more traction ahead.

I am a reddit refugee here. Would love to be part of this community. Even got a user name I love than the ridiculous one I have at reddit. And this web app that you guys have built is Fucking awesome on iPhone and feels like I am using Apollo.

Active =)

Commenting to boost.

RIP RIF.

Just moved since Sync stopped working. Hello world!

Is this the last Reddit hug of death?

And I helped.

I hope more r****t communities migrate to Lemmy

Fresh off the refugee boat, but doing my part!

This is only the beginning

Trying to figure this out still, but it feels exciting to start here.

Commenting so i'm counted as active :)

Still not 100% sure how all this works compared to Reddit

Lets see where this goes

Let's see how many % it grows in July when shit really hits the fan.

I'm a metric!

Only going to get better in July!

I wonder what it will be in July 🤔

Here's my two pennuth - fingers crossed this whole fedi thing works.

I am so excited about what's going to happen for Lemmy, I was looking for a replacement for Reddit, and this fedverse seems to have so much potential!

Joined today! Let's go!! See ya, Reddit!

Commenting to show how many activities we can do in here

I am the 0.00001% !

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I hope more communities move to lemmy, especially the mental health/support ones.

As for lemmy in general, I have to say that apart from the lack of videos, it's not bad at all, even the android apps are already better than the official reddit one (terribly slow for some reason).

Guess i’ll just post to add to the numbers because I have nothing worthy to add! 😐

Suppose this post is as good as any to comment on. According to screentime on my iphone Apollo was by far the most used app on my phone.

Commenting to be part of the stats!

Leaving a comment to be counted lol

I'm looking at the Lemmy instances webpage https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Why are so many instances closed for sign-ups? Doesn't seem like a good thing for the potential July 1st deluge of new users.

One small question, "average lemmy total users per day" is a bad metric to track, ("average active users" seems much more reliable), but is it going down because bot accounts are being closed?

Let’s hope lemmy works and continues rising! Also wefwef for lemmy is one hell of an app!

Came here after hearing that Sync is being developed for this app! Can't wait to use it. Hoping this community will keep growing 💗

Came here after years of using RIF. It was a good ride, let's boost Lemmy.

I'm doing my part

Let's go! Leaving a comment to participate, hoping the new place can handle the traffic tomorrow.

NEW FRONTIER!

Commenting for the stats!

insert Manuel - Gas Gas Gas

Not to be a Debra downer but until we have a way of accurately IDing bots / auto-generated accounts these numbers should have a massive asterisk on them, it's interesting but not an indicator of quality

lemme add to the statistics a little :)

Honestly, I expected more

Curious to see the July numbers.. :o

Guess Ill make my first comment to add to the stats. Hi!

I've been using reddit and RIF for 10 years. I'll probably still use old.reddit on desktop, but if they ever decide to shut that down I'm gone for good. Hoping Lemmy can be my go-to for mobile.

Activate!

Commenting to be in the next stats :)

Using a friend's instance now, but plan to create my own instance here soon as well. Excited to see the reddit influx, I've been waiting for over 10 years to see something like this happen, tracking federation since StatusNet

Active baby.

Guess I'm active now.

New lemmy account checking in as active! I'll grab the popcorn 🍿

Active. Good afternoon, folks.

Leaving my first comment to be added to the count

Former RIF users first comment. Hello everybody!

Keen to see what those numbers will look like in July.

Finally figuring this place out

Just moved from sync.

Getting used to things here. Signed up with a random instance. Trying to figure out if there is any benefit to signing up with a particular instance, and if it's worth exploring for a better/closer instance to sign up with.

I didn't know what Lemmy is but since Reddit killed my Baconreader, I couldn't go support their garbage app. So this seems nice.

O shit dat me

Uninstalling RiF after using it for ~7 years was so surreal and heartbreaking. Now wefwef.app is my new best friend 🤝

My first post. RIP RIF.

Insane Growth

Nice!

I'm not a fan of the "community" aspect of much of the Fediverse. I have more than one interest. My entire persona isn't just one thing. I don't want to log in to a different account every time I want to talk about something different.

I just join a generic-ass instance (mas.to on Mastodon, lemmy.world on Lemmy), and follow the stuff that actually interests me. (hashtags & a couple users on Mastodon; communities on Lemmy)

Following literally everything that gets farted into an entire instance is just drinking from a firehose.

Hopefully this blows up and Reddit IPO gets cancelled

I’m doing my part!

First Post on here.

RIP RIF.

So incredibly sad, but hoping lemmy can be something special in its own right.

Using Connect for Lemmy and like what I've seen so far.

Just made an account

I signed up today. It's working for me in chrome but the mlem app isn't recognizing my username or email. I'll give it some time. It was sad this morning when Apollo was dead. RIP 3rd party apps and the Reddit that lives only in memory.

Is this just this instance or is this for all Lemmy instances?

To hijack a brain dead crypto bro phrase:

tO tHe MoOn!!!