Lemmy active users grew by an astounding 1600% in June (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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From 2,997 active users across all lemmy instances at the beginning of June, the number increased to 52,797 by June 30th. Source.

An active user on Lemmy is "someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame.” Source. That means lurkers are not counted as active users. There are currently almost 200k total users spread across the top 10 non-bot lemmy instances.

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EDIT: Looking for a lemmy app? Here's a whole list: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

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[-] baggyspandex@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Registration and discovery needs to be simplified tremendously for long term viability. But it’s a good start.

[-] BecomingTheFalcon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

From the outside looking in, the whole model seemed needlessly complicated. So it’s like there’s a LOT of reddit.coms over here? But they’re all the same? But also different? What’s the difference? Which one do I sign up on?

But then I get here and realized it doesn’t really matter that much, since you can more or less use all of them regardless of which one you sign up for.

Something about the way users try to communicate what Lemmy/Fediverse IS, is the complicated part. It’s like everyone wants to jump straight to the more technical details behind how the model works; which probably scares off a lot of the people who just want a place to pop in and talk about their hobbies.