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lemmy.world leads the pack as the #1 most active instance, outpacing the next 5 non-bot instances combined!

Active users as of June 25, 2023:

  • lemmy.world (48k users): 13554 active users
  • lemmy.ml (38k users): 4582 active users
  • beehaw.org (11k users): 3743 active users
  • feddit.de (6.7k users): 2320 active users
  • sh.itjust.works (6.5k users): 2167 active users
  • lemmy.ca (3.5k users): 1082 active users

Great to see all this growth and activity in different lemmy instances!

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

SJ_Zero ,
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That’s great and imma let you finish but remember that decentralization is strength on the fediverse. Join or create other instances, join or create communities on other instances, thats our strength.

On the fediverse, instances come and go. I’ve seen big instances go down either permanently or temporarily, and ive also seen big communities decide they’re turning off federation. The only way to be safe from that is to decentralize, so if something happens there’s still something worth doing on the fediverse.

Besides that though, congratulations lemmy.world, I love to see the thrediverse Renaissance we’re in, and nothing but love for the folks running this instance and the folks participating on it.

GustavoM ,
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More users does not ALWAYS mean a good thing.

AskThinkingTim ,
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Back in my day lemmy.ml was the biggest instance.

tamtt ,

Account age: 1 week

Yep checks out

Schooner ,

Now do me!

tamtt ,

Account age: 2 years

Ok grandpa time to get you back to your home.

average650 ,
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What counts as an active user? Voting? Commenting? Posting?

Negative_Pair_5694 ,

Also lemmy.world is extremely slow in pushing out messages to other instances, if at all. So leading the pack is not necessarily the best thing until you figure out scaling.

terribleplan ,
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Yeah, they should really consider not accepting new users until that is figured out, honestly. There are plenty of servers out there that people can join at this point. Too much centralization in a decentralized system for my liking regardless of instance scaling.

favrion ,
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Who is Lemmy? Is this an underground movement thing on the dark web or something?

betheydocrime ,

Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy Kilmister or simply Lemmy, was an English musician. He was the founder, lead singer, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member, and a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975.

JujuT ,

lemmy.world is probably leading because it’s easy to sign up

SolDaMan ,

I mean, i would rather have an easy sign up then go through a shitty purity test like beehaw.org makes you go through.

SolDaMan ,

Hello All, First time poster here. I would just like to say that i tried signing up for beehaw.org but they have some kind of purity test that reminds me of Reddit. Don’t ever sign up for beehaw, that is going to be one hell of a drama filled instance.

Daisy ,
@Daisy@lemmy.world avatar

Drama? Ooooh brb

maegul ,
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Good time to appreciate the lack of dominant centrality here compared to mastodon.

Mastodon’s flagship instance run by the BDFL, mastodon.social, has ~10 times the monthly active users of the next biggest instance.

Here, there isn’t really a flagship instance, as the devs don’t want their instance to be anything more than the one they happen to run, and it’s not the biggest, and the biggest is independent of the lemmy dev team and isn’t even that much bigger than the others.

Ghostalmedia ,
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That might also be a response to what users were asking for. Signing up for a server confused the shit out of everyone. It was to the point where Mastodon’s confusing onboarding process was frequently being covered by major media outlets across the globe.

Instead of continuing to iterate on sever selection experience, they just started to say “fuck it” and started dumping everyone into .social.

DoctorTYVM ,

Which is the only way they’re ever going to work. It’s a major barrier to sign ups. If the fediverse is actually going to take off one of the Lemmy sites will have to become the dominant one

floofloof ,

If the tools for discovering and subscribing to communities could be improved so it becomes dead easy to subscribe to communities on any instance from any instance, that might not need to happen.

Right now the process of having to search for each community and subscribe is too clunky. And if someone posts a link to another community it often comes up in a format that takes you to the other instance, where you have no account so can’t subscribe. We need a way to share links to other communities that incorporates an easy “subscribe” button that talks to your own instance.

It would be nice to have some index or search result page that lists communities on all instances, with a subscribe button next to each.

If these things can be smoothed out, it won’t matter too much which instance you have your account on, so that will be less of an obstacle to new users.

syl ,

Good. It is important to have different instances to distribute the load though. However, I hope there are not many people joining BeeHaw…

calvin ,
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As long as people understand the circumstances of that instance I have absolutely no problem with people finding the place they belong.

I just hope there are not new users who don’t realize they may not be federated with the larger community.

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