Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:

  1. lemmy.world: 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
  2. lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
  3. beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
  4. sh.itjust.works: 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
  5. feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
  6. lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
  7. lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
  8. lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
  9. lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
  10. programming.dev: 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

  • xantoxis@lemmy.oneEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    That’s pretty cool.

    I’m truly not being a negative nancy but the last time I checked reddit had 400M user accounts. We should be comparing active user numbers, but either way, this is a drop in the bucket and reddit rightly does not consider Lemmy a threat to its supremacy at this point.

    We’re doing great though! Good trajectory.

    • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      I don’t need Lemmy to compete with or kill Reddit. All I wanted was any one platform to get enough of an influx of users to be self-sustaining even after the outrage started to die down, which appears to have been successful.

        • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          It kinda does in that when things worsen, more people come to Lemmy, but I agree that Lemmy’s success doesn’t depend on reddit’s demise.

          • Historical_General@lemmy.worldEnglish
            216·
            1 year ago

            It should behave as a viable and threatening adversary for reddit. As long as reddit carries on doing as it does and lemmy’s communities carry on building, we’re winning by blocking Reddit’s monopoly on mainstream forum-type social media.

      • LemmyLefty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Exactly. I don’t want or need to build another McDonalds or Starbucks; I just want to go to the Mom and Pop down the road without worrying if they’ll tank.

      • deranger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I agree. Just give me some decent posts and discussion. For niche things I can go to a big platform with all the users. For my daily browsing, I appreciate a small but active community.

        • ghostBones@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          That actually tracks, since lemmy is supposedly populated mostly by “older nerdy males”. I mean they have a point, the quality of discussion is definitely better – for now. That could end with an Endless September event.

      • DanTheMan827@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        What it really needed was a good app.

        It’s still glitchy though… like on memmy, if you swipe too far to downvote, and go back, the color for upvote is still the downvote color

        • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I tried a few different apps but I settled on just using the mobile website on my phone. The interface is solid even there, which I think is a great feat.

          • Historical_General@lemmy.worldEnglish
            05·
            1 year ago

            I’ve only just been able to log into this account using private mode, I only just realised that emptying the cache would’ve worked or something - but the weird thing is my account wasn’t working on mobile apps either so I didn’t think to empty cache on desktop…

            Sync for Lemmy can’t come soon enough.

    • ReallyKinda@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Personally I don’t care if I’m talking to millions of people vs hundreds of thousands as long as there are enough people to make it feel alive and like a community.

      • Xeelee@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Exactly. I don’t give a fuck about Reddit any more. I’d rather be in a niche community with (some) quality content than on some huge site with mainly reposts. We’re not in competition with Reddit. Were trying to be a better alternative.

    • magnetosphere@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s a hard habit to break, because we’ve been trained to think this way for years, but try to remember: we don’t need to attract millions of users to be valuable. This isn’t a commercial enterprise. We don’t sell advertising. We don’t measure success by the number of eyeballs we can promise paying customers.

      What matters now is the quality of conversation. In fact, that’s the ONLY measure of any consequence. It’s strange, because in the past, someone’s often tried to use services like this as a way to make money, or as a way to make something else they were selling more attractive. We expected it. It was always in the back of our heads. It even got to the point that if a company did something that wasn’t an effort to increase profitability, we criticized them. Generosity, real generosity, was alien to us.

      It’s hard to wrap your head around the idea that people volunteer their time and money to build and maintain the fediverse, simply because they want us to be able to communicate. That’s it. There’s no hidden agenda. There’s no quest for profit at our expense.

      I’m perfectly fine with the fediverse growing slowly. I don’t want it to be strained beyond what the mods can handle. Bigger isn’t necessarily better.

      • Nowyn@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        1 year ago

        Coming from the non-profit world, it is never that easy. Even when there is no one officially making any money, there are people who will see it as a way to make some bank. There is also a drawback in that not making money can and will affect the amount of time people can put in unless there is a fair way to get them compensation. Volunteering also brings a huge amount of interpersonal and inter-organizational drama. That is why grassroots organizations and movements have a habit of fracturing into smaller groups.

        At the same time, there is power in goodwill and being non-profit. You just really need to be careful in vetting your instance and keep an eye on issues in a way people not used to this type of world are not familiar with.

        But I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have a belief that it could be successful enough as a community. I also wouldn’t have been working in the NGO world for the past decade if I didn’t believe in that. But let’s not have too rosy glasses on. Growing slowly will also give this community a chance to work out the kinks and not die in a blaze of fire.

      • biddy@feddit.nl
        2·
        1 year ago

        In the case of social network like this, bigger generally is better for the users. The thing that made Reddit great was that whatever your niece interest, there was a community of thousands of other interested people. There was so much information and advice on whatever obscure topic.

        There’s a reason why there’s only around 10 really popular social networks and it’s certainly not that those platforms are any good. The network effect is important.

      • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I personally don’t derive any value from high quality conversations about topics I don’t care about. That’s why I need these millions of users, so that there are people I can talk with. About topics I care about. I’m willing to go on a limb here an say that your interests and mine don’t fully align.

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Have to agree with others, we don’t want the majority from reddit here. They helped to turn reddit into crap.

      I would rather see this be like the Linux community. Just a few percent of users, but all very motivated and interested in Linux.

    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Some thoughts on that, Reddit has half a billion monthly active users. Lemmy has about 50k monthly active users. That’s .01% or one ten thousandth. We won’t be displacing Reddit anytime soon, but then we don’t want to. That’s the main problem with Reddit, it’s too damn big and too damn corporate. The main thing is Lemmy sees enough growth to stay relevant and viable. It doesn’t have to compete with anyone.

  • Jay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Sorry dude, you’ll have to subtract one unfortunately. I created a NSFW account to have two different home feeds.

    Apologies for the inconvenience.

  • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I think that Lemmy does need more of the right exposure.

    If you search for any Lemmy content on Google or Duck-Duck-Go, you don’t get any good results. This is probably because most people use Apps or secure browsers that don’t allow tracking.

    Maybe Duck-Duck-Go need to have a !bang search modifier for Lemmy. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

  • SageWaterDragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have high hopes for Lemmy, but I don’t think that having a lot of users is going to be a super positive thing in the long term. It’d be great if it could feel like younger Reddit for longer than younger Reddit did, you know? Stay at least a little under the radar.

    • Menachem@midwest.socialEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I bet we fall just outside the top 10. Seems pretty busy here to me, plus our LOTR memes make top upvoted pretty frequently. Honestly I’m wondering if the user distribution might be pretty dang good below the top 5 servers or so; 234k could be a serious underestimation of the actual active userbase if the next 20 servers all have 1k+

  • Hextic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Came here right after Joey stopped working. Gave official app one good spin before deleting: virtually unusable.

    • sounddrill@linux.communityEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’m told it has improved greatly in these months but who’d want to use reddit now? Lol

      Even then, it will never come close to something like infinity

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      02·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I’ve genuinely not missed it, been just over two weeks and I’ve been having so much fun here I haven’t once found myself at a loose end wondering whats happening on Reddit

      Which is surprising considering i still run quite a few subs I started and mod a few medium sized ones, when I get back home in a couple of weeks I’ll convert my bots to message me via lemmy instead and I really don’t think I’ll be going back

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    And to think you thought you needed a John Oliver AMA. John Oliver don’t have anything on me.

    “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.

    • Gleddified@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The great Canadian-Dutch war. 4 people were injured and Kevin’s mom made pizza pops for everyone after.

    • Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      We’re just behind cloudflare, the server itself and all us admins are Canadian.