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MicroWave Jul 10, 2023

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

https://lemmy.world/post/1303827

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

Current breakdown at the time of this post: 1. lemmy.world [https://lemmy.world/]: 101,013 users 2. lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]: 41,972 users 3. beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org]: 12,270 users 4. sh.itjust.works [https://sh.itjust.works/]: 17,509 users 5. feddit.de [http://feddit.de]: 8,675 users 6. lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee]: 10,348 users 7. lemmynsfw.com [http://lemmynsfw.com]: 22,967 users 8. lemmy.fmhy.ml [http://lemmy.fmhy.ml]: 8,777 users 9. lemmy.ca [http://lemmy.ca]: 5,072 users 10. programming.dev [https://programming.dev/]: 5,058 users Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73 [https://the-federation.info/platform/73]

xantoxis Jul 10, 2023

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.

TheSpookiestUser

I don’t need Lemmy to compete with or kill Reddit. All I wanted was any one platform to get enough of an influx of users to be self-sustaining even after the outrage started to die down, which appears to have been successful.

relative_iterator Jul 10, 2023

Yeah as long as we have an active enough community here it doesn’t matter what goes on at reddit.

_haha_oh_wow_Jul 10, 2023

It kinda does in that when things worsen, more people come to Lemmy, but I agree that Lemmy’s success doesn’t depend on reddit’s demise.

Historical_General Jul 10, 2023

It should behave as a viable and threatening adversary for reddit. As long as reddit carries on doing as it does and lemmy’s communities carry on building, we’re winning by blocking Reddit’s monopoly on mainstream forum-type social media.

_haha_oh_wow_Jul 10, 2023

I guess what I’m saying is: Lemmy won’t kill reddit, reddit will kill reddit.

deranger Jul 10, 2023

I agree. Just give me some decent posts and discussion. For niche things I can go to a big platform with all the users. For my daily browsing, I appreciate a small but active community.

ghostBones Jul 10, 2023

That actually tracks, since lemmy is supposedly populated mostly by “older nerdy males”. I mean they have a point, the quality of discussion is definitely better – for now. That could end with an Endless September event.

LemmyLefty Jul 10, 2023

Exactly. I don’t want or need to build another McDonalds or Starbucks; I just want to go to the Mom and Pop down the road without worrying if they’ll tank.

TheRedBadger Jul 11, 2023

This is exactly it

scarabic Jul 10, 2023

Exactly. Well said. We have all the time in the world to grow. What we needed was a good start, and we got it. Just keep creating content, volunteer to mod somewhere, and don’t look back.

c2h6 Jul 10, 2023

I agree, reddit got too big to be fun. That said lemmy still needs to get bigger in order for communities to actually thrive.

DanTheMan827 Jul 10, 2023

What it really needed was a good app.

It’s still glitchy though… like on memory, if you swipe too far to downvote, and go back, the color for upvote is still the downvote color

TheSpookiestUser Jul 10, 2023

I tried a few different apps but I settled on just using the mobile website on my phone. The interface is solid even there, which I think is a great feat.

Historical_General Jul 10, 2023

I’ve only just been able to log into this accont using private mode, I only just realised that emptying the cache would’ve worked or something - but the wierd thing it my account wasn’t working on mobile apps either so I didn’t think to empty cache on desktop…

Sync for Lemmy can’t come soon enough.