Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you're doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).

Me here, fuck u/spez🖕

Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see the fediverse grow, but if it's overrun with bots... no one will want to stick around.

Welcome all you noobs

(don't hit me, I just got here too)

I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.

As has been asked every time, how many are bots?

I'm one of them. Hello!

I realized yesterday that i haven't been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It's refreshing.

It's mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who'll generate content and start communities?

While this is good, I can't help but feel that the branding of the decentralised social media ecosystem is hurting the growth a little bit. The -verse suffix, imo, is just too tainted from all the cryptobro metaverse scams and really makes this seem like some crypto scam as opposed to an alternative to the current crumbling social media platforms.

Regardless, I hope this ecosystem does take off, as it does seem useful and interesting.

There are dozens of us! Baker's dozens! (We come in 13s)

Lest not forget that Reddit used bots when it went live to drive users there. I don't know what I mean it was just a thought.

Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.

My first lemmy post. Here as a reddit refugee. Looking forward to watching a new community develop as reddit seems intent to go down the road of enshitification. I bailed on FB and Instagram as they enshitified. Reddit looks to be next.

Every time I read these posts I can't help but be sceptical: It's bots, bots everywhere.

Count me in.

Keep in mind, there's a known issue with bot registration spam so take total user count stat with a big chunk of salt:

https://botsin.space/@threadcount/110581723322900741

Daily active users is a better measure:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats (site stability is iffy right now, but refresh a couple times and it should load eventually)

Can't wait to see this chart come July 1st and the days the follow!

Yes. This is the future I want. I hope to help make the lemmyverse a verse worth inhabiting.