10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000

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.

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

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Not to be the fly in the ointment, but you can't really just add those up and expect that number to be accurate if we're trying to look at unique users within the fediverse. If I had to hazard a guess, a not-so-insignificant chunk of those probably overlap (i.e. users who have made multiple accounts across several instances). I have made an account across lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin and fedia just as backups in case one instance fails. I might be an extreme case having 4, but pretty sure it's becoming increasingly common for people to have at least 2 accounts (1 on a different instance).

I think I can confidently say now that this is a legit Reddit alternative

How many if you include kbin?

didn't realize i picked one of the top ten instances. lots of programmers here.

I wonder how many of these are unique? I'm sure that many, like myself, have created accounts on more than 1 instance.

Call me when it's 1,234,567.

I'm just curious what the nsfw patch does

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

Doing course correction in fixing social media is a long game. It'll take a while, and there'll be turbulence, but this is a great start

great. slowly transitioning into Lemmy from now on becuz fuck reddit

Rather have 240k users here than 240m on reddit.

Sometimes it's the quality of the shit posts and not the post shits.

Aww poor lemmy.dbzer0.com not top ten. 😭So close at #11 though!

and I mean, why not?

fuck reddit, and any corporation that takes advantages of its users like reddit.

We are the ones who give you value, not vica versa. Their IPO depends on how many users they have. Not on the capabilities of your app. And they treated it vica versa.

From then I just made my parade for pro-privacy and for pro-anticorp that takes advantage of its users, deleted my META account thus my Instagram, Messenger etc. My Discord. I dont care anymore. Even if I dont have now I will find someday other options. Better or not, they are options. And Lemmy seems a very good one, even better I would say, just not as user friendly - yet. (Not that reddit's app was good but we all knew that we had to use apollo/boost anyway)

How is lemmy.ca not in Canada?

In looking for a replacement for Reddit, I came across this. I'm hopefully optimistic. The last straw for me in a long list of issues that I have with Reddit came yesterday. Lemmy has a long way to go, but I'm moving away from Reddit and will become active here.

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.

Lemm.ee is omnipresent

A quarter million users and that's not even with all the different instances.

Very cool. Just remember folks, don't forget to diversify and decentralize! These other instances have some interesting posts and conversations, and by spreading out we make sure no single instance or community can break the fediverse.

Lemmy.world is gone forever for me. 😂 If I sign in, it tells me my log in is wrong. Then I sign on the web, it tells me to enter the 2FA code, I have never set up 2FA. Signed up with another email, kept saying captcha was wrong, then just failed and kept saying user already exists. Tried to log in with the new email that it told me it already existed, then it tells me wrong log in. I just gave up

Edit: this has been very bizarre. Resetting the password sometimes works on the mobile browser only, but not on the desktop. Then now it just never works anymore. I already reset the password once and used it to log in, but on apps it gives an "invalid token" error, on the browser it asks me to enter my 2FA code, but I've never set that. When I try to reset the password again, nothing happens Ruud@lemmy.world would you be able to take a look at this for me, please? I don't know if that's the right way to mention someone. /u/Ruud

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

well yeah, because fuck reddit.

90% 2nd accounts on lemmynsfw.

Lemmy.nz here

I think it is cool that it is coming up on nearly 2 million across all ~1200 instances.

Cool, I got in before a quarter million!  (my first comment)  *typo

Hello fellow programming.dev lemmings!

lemmy.ca has a Dutch flag?

Wait, subtract one: I'm on both .world and .ee

We should spread out across it, if the lemmy.world hack and the fact that its admins are even flirting with the idea of fedding with threads are any indication

Yay! My first post! Still figuring things out such as logging in, communities, etc. A bit different from the old world, but the browser is very Apollo-like - God bless everyone for this! MOAR!!!!! More people, more posts, more POWER muahahahahahaha! Go Lemmy! Go Fediverse! ...sorry, I'm not adding anything other than cheers here.

Was vlemmy.net one of those before it, ah, went off to see Titanic?

Heck yeah! Let's go!

What did happen to reddit though? Everything seems to continue as it always has. I was using Joey for Reddit to browse it, ant that still works as far as I know

Of the top five, sh.itjust.works seems to be the best. Definitely the instance that I would recommend to new users.

Why is kbin never included in these breakdowns? Is it not "formally" considered lemmy or something of that sort?

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.

Now I want to know how many of this population did not use a 3rd-Party reddit app.

Nice achievement! Needless to say, the user base needs to grow further to compete with other social media

Hey that's me!

Does anyone know where I can find that bot that takes all my subs for me, an allows me to import them into a new account? I really dig reddthat, however there have been a few scares already, and I'd love to have a core backup so if I do move around it's easily set up.

it is much more when you look at the entire Threadiverse, e.g all Lemmy and Kbin instances combined, it is even more, at 134.000+ active users (created accounts are inflated due to people spamming bot accounts)

(source: https://fedidb.org)

why are so many lemmy.ml users not active compared to .world or beehaw?

I wonder if we can take the data in that site and see whether or not the fediverse has a "long tail." Or if the mass migration has consolidated folks into a more traditional bell curve across servers.

The long tail is a concept that applies in a number of ways but I'm most familiar with it from the very very early days of SEO. The idea that the thing you're interested in (in this case active users) are spread over so many tiny instances that they seem like a small part of the whole when in fact they make up the majority.

Who would have thought, taking away a huge reason why people use your platform and being a douche bag about it would drive people to use other platforms.

This is amazing

I'm one of those! Literally just joined for my first comment. :)

Thank you for those posts!

Add one more.

All i know is I spend half my time on lemmy/kbin now blocking stuff because it's just stupid meme after meme after meme.

That wasn't the case a few weeks ago.

Hehehehe

Great to see from Lemmy.

Very nice

I’m hoping the great guys at .ml will approve my registration there. Setting up a backup account and would prefer it be there with all my stuff subscribed and ready, just in case.

not a lot of midwesterns i guess (im on midwest.social)

Where does lemmy.one sit? That's where I made my account because a) it didn't seem to matter and 2) I was told that lemmy world and lemmy.ml were under stress due to the reddit shenanigans.

Testing

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

Nice

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Glad, that Greedy man is zucking user base. Hehehe.

Huh. It feels a lot livelier than that.

and how many are those thats are bot ?

Compared to reddit it's small but on it's own 100-200k active users is a lot of people. Maybe not enough to host a variety of active niche communities though. Lemmy is still tech-oriented or busy talking about itself. It'll need to branch out. I want to talk hydroponics or espresso or interior design.

let's shoot for 300k!!!

I'm curious what the Services column means.

Bn

Beehaw admins shot themselves in the foot, it was supposed to be the no.1 by now but they decided to persecute the left instead.