Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users.

https://feddit.uk/post/14778

Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users. - Feddit UK

When I checked yesterday it was 91,000 users, it’s now 109,000 and counting up fast! 100,000 🎉 [https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/368da046-cbc6-40a1-8cd3-6dd3b4971e21.jpeg]

As one of those new users, I'm loving the potential of Lemmy and I'm enjoying finding my way around, but it definitely needs some UX enhancements, especially around federated communities.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

They're coming!

Good to know! I expected that an influx of users would propel development, hopefully that momentum keeps up.
Where can I find these stats?

Here you go: https://the-federation.info/platform/73#

I’ll update the main post with it too.

There's definitely more nodes than listed there, and definitely users at those nodes.
Help us find them. I just clicked Lemmy on this site. Other sites has more lagged statistics currently
I actually like the interface a LOT better than (old) Reddit. I refused to use the new interface because "yuck!" and old.reddit.com doesn't have a "dark mode," so I view this as an upgrade, visually (along with other UX aspects). I'm definitely sticking!
RES has (had?) a dark mode for old reddit.
yep it does. RES was such a great addon made by such cool people. Cant wait to see the kind of things those people are making for Lemmy.
Someones already made a browser extension that simplifies hyperlinking to other instance’s communities across the Lemmyverse.
They potential is huge because it's all open. If the community really wants something, it'll be done.
I've never used Reddit on mobile devices actually...
Wait this has a dark mode? How do I enable that!
Our baby grows up so fast <3
We are at 5k monthly active users. I find that stat more interesting.

Here are some of the monthly active user statistics for various social media platforms, according to the search results:

  • Facebook - 2.96 billion monthly active users (MAUs) [1]
  • YouTube - 2.56 billion MAUs[2]
  • WhatsApp - 2 billion MAUs[3]
  • Instagram - 2 billion MAUs[3][4]
  • WeChat - 1.26 billion MAUs[2]
  • TikTok - 1 billion MAUs[2]
  • Facebook Messenger - 988 million MAUs[2]
  • Snapchat - 557 million MAUs[2]
  • Pinterest - 444 million MAUs[2]
  • Twitter - 368 million MAUs[5]
  • It's worth noting that these numbers are subject to change and may vary depending on the source. Additionally, there are many other social media platforms with significant user bases that are not listed here. When choosing which social media platforms to use for your brand, it's important to consider the relevance to your target audience and the quality of engagement on each platform, rather than just the number of users.

    Citations: [1] https://buffer.com/library/social-media-sites/ [2] https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-popular-social-media-platforms/ [3] https://datareportal.com/social-media-users [4] https://statusbrew.com/insights/social-media-statistics/ [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users

    By Perplexity at https://www.perplexity.ai/search/98165c01-5be7-41be-ba6c-fd77454d3b5a

    Was initially surprised about WeChat not being higher just because my understanding was that it was the main social site in China with a lot of the ones popular outside of that country being banned, but I suppose practically nobody outside of China uses it and they are still a minority of the world, big as they are, so on second thought it makes sense. Seeing Pinterest above Twitter genuinely surprises me though, I don't think I've ever seen anyone talking about Pinterest, mentioning their Pinterest account, or linking to it, and tbh I don't actually even know what sort of site it is or what it even looks like.
    Don't forget us kbin users too! We're all in the same boat now

    Indeed! That's the beautiful thing about this whole decentralised magic. You can use the app (not just mobile app) that best suits you and your interests, and interact with anyone, anywhere.

    It's wonderful honestly.

    it warms my heart to see so many people slowly figuring this out. This is what the internet was meant to be all along.

    Might be a dumb question, but I don't see how I can interact with Kbin from Lemmy.

    If I search for communities, I can see ones from other instances but not any from Kbin.

    On kbin.social specifically, federation is currently broken. The server saw a lot of stress because of the influx of new users and the dev turned on the cloudflare check, so that instance won't kneel down. That broke the federation, other instances cannot go through that check.
    Oh. That's unfortunate. Why do they need cloud flare again? Are there other instances of Kbin?

    Cloudflare can protect against DDOS. In this instance the people are ddosing the server, although not intentionally. There are just a lot of people trying to open the site. So it's not malicious but still an "attack", which cloudflare's service mitigates. In reddit it was called the "reddit hug of death", when small sites kneeled down because a post got popular with their links in it.

    And yes, there are, the second largest is fedia.io You can find more here:

    https://fedidb.org/software/kbin

    Yeah those numbers aren't correct, just fedia.io have more than that https://fedia.io/stats
    And here isn't correcteither https://the-federation.info/platform/184
    If you add the users from other instances will more than that.

    Also when subreddits return public many users will go back to reddit

    kbin.social still isn't federating, right? I wasn't able to access communities @kbin.social from Lemmy
    Thus I recommend we rise an army to incorporate kbin into our glorious federation.
    Oh boy! By the way, there is such a huge ammount of fediverce services... By the way, WTF is Misskey? And how is has 1M users?
    Misskey looks a lot like a federated Twitter alternative, kinda like Mastodon. It seems to be Chinese, which might be why most of us have never heard of it and why it has so many users.
    Governments around the world cannot control rebel developers looking for true freedom of speech

    @SuperIce @domage
    Misskey is a Japanese twitter-like. It’s actually older than mastodon and very popular in Japan specifically. They have custom emoji reactions under posts, they have animation and advanced markdown, they can have cat ears on their profile pictures, THEY HAVE QUOTE REPOST, chat, advanced search features, etc.

    Misskey have been forked multiple times (foudkey, calckey, etc.) and those forks are more popular in English-speaking communities.

    Very interesting. Anyone know why there was a huge drop in Total users for Lemmy from Nov 3 to Nov 4, 2022?. Total users went from 55178 to 37901.
    The great dying of Nov 3rd ofc
    Not to be confused with the second great dying of Nov 4th.
    Thanos snapped obviously don't you remember half of humanity turning to dust https://tenor.com/0CEG.gif
    Good for Thanos for not forgetting to delete the Lemmy accounts of those who are snapped out of existence.
    Did some somewhat sizable instance close down or become invisible to that site or something like that maybe?
    I mean we are called Lemmings for a reason. You didn't get that memo?
    Looks like a huge drop in user counts a fee minutes ago too: Down to 75K as of the time I made this comment despite the chart showing a much higher number immediately before that. I'm guessing there's something off when it comes to counting the different instances.
    That's over 9000!
    Nearly up to 20k new users in last 24 hours, it’s accelerating!
    I think we're still a little bit short of 8.0995899866e+31681 users.
    Who wants to create c/unexpectedfactorial
    Putting them advanced maths skills to use!
    What, nine thousand?!
    This is amazing news. I’m thinking we’ve reached critical mass where it’s going to be self sustaining and worth using.
    40 million more to go! \o/
    Reddit wasn’t built in a day :)
    Let's hope it falls within a day.
    Please, no. The more people come to a platform, the worse it gets.

    Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5

    who is the .5?

    consider this my half comment to try and ba..
    🤷🏻‍♂️
    Musk has a Lemmy account?
    I have one leg mb
    I dunno, but I'm sure they're alright.
    Huffman wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
    I expect an even larger jump when on July 1s and onwards, that is where a lot of growth will come from.