Lemmy.world officially has 33k users! 3000 users away from becoming the #1 lemmy instance.

https://lemmy.world/post/296403

Lemmy.world officially has 33k users! 3000 users away from becoming the #1 lemmy instance. - Lemmy.world

The user count at the moment of this post stands at 33279 and continues to grow! To take the #1 spot from lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] (36185 users and no longer growing), lemmy.world [https://lemmy.world/] just needs about 3000 new users. Given the current growth rate, it should be another day or two. We’re building something here!

At some point this instance should stop it's indefinite growth IMHO. Centralizing users is not in the ethos of lemmy. I think once it reaches the size of lemmy.ml it should close to new users.
If signup was paused when I signed up I wouldn’t have bothered and looked for something else.