Not bad. I’d like to see it grow to at least 500K. Reddit got too big when they became mainstream about 5 years ago. Was a good size twelve years ago when I first joined.
Will be nice to see a wave of Apollo users come over now their app has stopped working.
Reddit was about 5m-10m monthly visitors back then. It’s in the order of 600m now.
I’m one of hopefully tens of thousands coming over from Apollo. I like it here so far! I’m testing the Memmy app for iOS.
Same here! Except I’m trying mlem instead of Memmy. So far I like it here too
Wefwef is a bettter Apollo clone, you.should give that a try
Hope this momentum lasts. Post content!
I’m having a damn good time here. Wefwef is feeling a lot like Apollo and I’m not really missing Reddit
Awesome, I’d like to see lemmy be successful. Not exactly a reddit replacement as there was a lot of toxicity there. But like a more positive community.
I think the power struggle will be less rampant here due to the nature of federation. But you never know.
This is awesome, but also, Lemmy is totally being hugged to death right now.
I think there’s a limit to how big lemmy can grow because it’s hosted on many small instances instead of one big cdn. There’s only so many people willing to host an instance.
Actually quite the opposite, if there are more instances, and they are fairly well balanced the load is shared between them - yes there is some inefficiency, but each server still has less load than if you tried to put all the content and users on one server.
As for how many are willing… There are now over 10,000 Mastodon instances, and many of them are on servers which now have spare capacity (there was a spike in load after Musk first started doing silly things at Twitter, this has reduced a bit since). I think quite a few Mastodon admin are considering spinning up Lemmy and/or kbin too. Mastodon/Lemmy/kbin all integrate with each other and the wider fediverse.
People think that decentralised networks can’t scale because they don’t understand that that is exactly how the internet works.
Imagine if these people knew how email works, that never took off /s
Or usenet. Or IRC. Or torrents… Etc. Everything old is new again. Hell the internet was originally designed to route around central points of failure.
Lemmy: 1,660,853 overall users
Kbin: 52,449 overall users^ 2023-07-01 01:29:00 CEST
Lemmy: 1,582,360 overall users (- 78493 users, definitely bots)
Kbin: 53,459 overall users (+ 1010 users)Edit {
Active last 30 days:
Lemmy: 51,711 users
Kbin: 53,490 users
}^ 2023-07-01 12:00:00 CEST
Seems like a ton of botted accounts were deleted since tonight so I can’t tell how many actual users registered on lemmy,
but Kbins userbase has risen by 1010 as well since tonight!I should keep track of active users as well. Perchance. - Added
Furthermore for the kbin stats visit this site and for the Lemmy stats visit this site
It looks like Lemmy will probably overtake kbin again shortly too:
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
…but Lemmy and kbin are pretty symbiotic now.I still really dont understand. Anything posted in lemmy automagically shows up in kbin, and viceversa, or does it have to be enabled somehow?
Here’s what I’ve gleamed. Say you make a magazine for toys. It is now addressed as toys@kbin.social, you associate the word toys as the badge for it. You’ll see things posted in microthreads that have that badge under that magazine. However that magazine is separate. Every so often Lemmy will download changes from federated servers like kbin. It will then add your toys@kbin.social and users will see it when they search for toy based Lemmy channels (not sure what it’s called). But from that point on, Lemmy will refresh with changes you’ve made and it’ll show up over there. Thats how you browse Lemmy stuff here.
It depends slightly where it is posted, and whether somebody has previously shown interest.
Kbin will see as much of a Lemmy instance as any other Lemmy instance… But a Lemmy post is only mirrored on a kbin instance (or another Lemmy instance) once somebody (anybody) on that instance has subscribed to the community it was posted in.
For the most part that means yes stuff magically just shows up, but if you are seeking something more niche or specialist you might need to seek it out more directly.
Same is true in the other direction, stuff posted in any of the large magazines here on kbin is going to be mirrored to most Lemmy instances, but smaller or new magazines might not see it unless or until somebody there proactively seeks it.
