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!
We’re coming over from Reddit. The damage their CEO is doing is becoming permanent.
Lots of bots.
We’re here! 10 year reddit user, deleted my account last week. Forcing myself to post and not just lurk. Fellow lurkers please comment a bit. Once traffic is decent you may resume your lurking. Thank you
Crawling out of lurking to show support. Using Jerboa right now, but I keep getting timeouts and it’s making browsing clunky since all my upvotes/comments are being undone.
But otherwise I love the concept of the fediverse so I’m here to stay
I’m getting that problem too. I saw that word - fediverse - a lot recently and it seemed like a concept that would be beyond me so I didn’t even look. Now that I have, my mind is blown and technology continues to amaze me. The networks just get larger and I love it.
I was looking forward to ridding myself of my Reddit addiction. Now I’m here…
Same. I couldn’t deal with just scrolling Instagram, I needed something else lol
Ah the sweet moment of having to retype your comment
Long time lurker at Reddit, using Apollo, but now part of Lemmy, due to the disappointing action by Reddit. Thank you to this community for being a great alternative during this upheaval.
I’m in the same boat but with Rif, the funny thing is I’ve posted the same here in the last few days as the last year of reddit.
the lemmyverse takeover is inevitable
Joined yesterday. Don’t really grasp the different instances yet but world sounded like a default to me
Think of it like your email provider. One is yahoo, one is Google, one is Hotmail, etc. They can all email each other, but they have different rules.
.world is just another “provider” but by no means a default, in fact it was only started 2 weeks ago.
Huh. I wonder how many people are on kbin
Kbin has been feeling really lively since the Reddit migration. The admin seems to be pretty busy making improvements to the UI / infrastructure. Keen to see what he does next
Just joined lemmy.world in response to reddit’s BS. Picked this instance because its sounds most normal compared to other gibberish names. Hi everyone!
Welcome! I went through the same thought process.
Went with lemmy.one because it felt really snappy while navigating communities. I was torn between .world and .one but then I saw that beehaw de-federated from .world which I didn’t like because beehaw has some of the more popular and active subs.
It seems like beehaw.org focuses their userbase’s activity within a handful of communities, whereas lemmy.world spreads it out across a wide range of (unlimited) communities. Seems to be working for beehaw so far, but we’ll see how long that lasts.
I realized that there are no downvotes on lemmy? Do I have that right? Wouldn’t downvoting allow for better community moderation?
The lemmy network allows downvotes by default. Looks like both beehaw.org and lemmy.one (where your account is registered) have disabled them. I can downvote on lemmy.world.
Got it. Yeah reading more about it in some threads now. Can you downvote my posts from your instance while it’s disabled on my instance?
Yep I can downvote your posts from my instance. Happy to downvote you if you’d like lol
Some lead developers of Lemmy also seem to subscribe to these political beliefs. But as long as they don’t censor people (and that’s pretty hard seeing as it’s open source and federated) still seems fine.
Genuine question: what guarantees those are not bots?
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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?
I an new myself but I dont think it does. Only difference there might be is that some just lag more (lemmy.ml) due to so many users.
Except BeeHaw as defederated lemmy.world - which is a shame. Step in the wrong direction IMO. That’s going to be a huge problem because now if you’re a BeeHaw member you no longer see anything lemmy.world related - you’re suddenly, overnight, cut off from thousands of people and posts.
Having these larger instances owned by 1 person like they all are now is a shame, but unavoidable at the beginning I suppose. One of them gets bitter and you have thousands defederated. I guess over time as things splinter up more it may get better.
I’ll likely just spin up my own instance so I can federate with everyone and never be dropped (at least from my side).
This is why you choose not to have an account on beehaw or lemmy.world and still interact with both. Picking and lemmey instance to live on should be taking everyone some time until you see how the they function. You can even host your own lemmy instance.
The problem is when you’ve already been participating and growing your sub list on a lemmy.world account and then beehaw pulls this shit. Suddenly half my subs are taken away without warning.
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)
Or rotate your phone to landscape mode.
You can tilt your head 90 degrees too.
FediDB has a “Threadiverse” category which tracks kbin + lemmy - we’re up to 169,312 in total now!
Edit: Oops, forgot the link: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
though how many of these are duplicate accounts?
I myself have one kbin account and one lemmy.world account because kbin was not stable enough the first day and i did hear great things about the lemmy.world stability. I do use both though and also considering opening a feddit account
Well, there’s roughly 33000 kbin and 140000 Lemmy
So at max 33000 duplicates?
