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Does lemmy.world really have 26000 users already? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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!

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[-] DizzyMotion@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Hi I'm new here. Does it matter what instance I'm subscribed to? I don't know what the practical differences would really be from my experience?

[-] einsofohr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if defederated there's a difference

see explanation here. https://lemmy.world/post/149743

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[-] neblem@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

27.3k as of right now, that is crazy! Its nice to see the instance counts going up for both lemmy and kbin, hopefully communities can be more spread out too to prevent defederation like we saw this morning.

[-] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 8 points 1 year 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

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[-] bix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

28000 already!

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Excited to be a part of something new!

[-] RaulitoElLobito@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

New user here too

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[-] xc2215x@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world is growing for sure. Good.

[-] Soullioness@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If you're having a hard time seeing all the columns on mobile, use "view as desktop" in your browser settings. It's the only way I can see all the columns. (Android / Opera)

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[-] RemKiad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Almost 30k, lemmy.world is quickly becoming the largest instance, insane.