Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:

  1. lemmy.world: 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
  2. lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
  3. beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
  4. sh.itjust.works: 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
  5. feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
  6. lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
  7. lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
  8. lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
  9. lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
  10. programming.dev: 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

  • anticommon@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    376·
    1 year ago

    Rather have 240k users here than 240m on reddit.

    Sometimes it’s the quality of the shit posts and not the post shits.

    • atempuser23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’m surprised how lively it feels here. It’s amazing that it feels nearly as fell as reddit with not even 1% of the user base.

      • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I think the users on here tend to be active on the site in general rather than just a few specific subreddits. And also the small amount of users all interacting on the same communities gives the entire site the feeling that smaller subreddits used to have. Which was always infinitely better than big subreddits will millions of users, infested with bots.

      • mtat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        People who use lemmy are more likely to be power users. The people who use their reddit account once a month generally don’t know or care about the issues that caused a lot of us to migrate.

    • Dodgeit@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Some of that prime, homegrown free range organic shit posting

  • Gikiski@fedia.io
    9·
    1 year ago

    Now I want to know how many of this population did not use a 3rd-Party reddit app.

    • Gullible@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      Increased population in lemmy.world is attributable to Redditisfun directly linking to this instance with its dying notification. Other instances may have vastly different compositions as a result.

      • teamevil@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Why‽ It was awful compared to Relay and RIF and those aren’t even the coveted 3rd party apps.

        • Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I remember trying RIF way back in the day. I think before the official app was even rolled out. I can’t even tell you why or how I quit RIF as it’s been so long ago.

          I personally didn’t have much of a problem with the official app, even though it could be wonky at times. I was more of a lurker and not a mod nor any kind of power user or anything. I left Reddit more on the principle of not wanting to support a greedy company anymore.

    • ghostBones@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      There is a whole lot of desktop and laptop users who couldn’t care less about APIs, but some of them have begun to notice that Reddit just isn’t the same anymore.

    • Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I confidently deleted my 33k karma, 12 year old reddit account yesterday. I agree.

        • Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I took note of it before I left. Other people mentioned it. I didn’t think it would be as big as it was. Kinda cool. Never cared about it enough to check.

      • BroccoliFarts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I think, because it’s a new platform that most of us want to see succeed, everyone is far more active to ensure the communities get established. If there’s a couple of days without a post in one of the 3d printing communities I subscribe to, someone will post a random print they find useful or ask a question about a new filament to keep it active. This low stress discussion is great.

        The 3d printing community on that other site ais great, but sometimes it feels like posts don’t gain traction unless it’s on a 1 cubic meter Voron that can print PEEK (translation: very expensive/unique). On the Lemmy communities, there’s more discussions on Enders and Anycubics (translation: most common budget printers).

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I’ve genuinely not missed it, been just over two weeks and I’ve been having so much fun here I haven’t once found myself at a loose end wondering whats happening on Reddit

      Which is surprising considering i still run quite a few subs I started and mod a few medium sized ones, when I get back home in a couple of weeks I’ll convert my bots to message me via lemmy instead and I really don’t think I’ll be going back

  • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.netEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    A quarter million users and that’s not even with all the different instances.

    Very cool. Just remember folks, don’t forget to diversify and decentralize! These other instances have some interesting posts and conversations, and by spreading out we make sure no single instance or community can break the fediverse.

    • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      A lot of them also restrict content. There are disadvantages to joining smaller instances, depending on the philosophy of the person who runs the instance. There’s even an instance that does not allow communities to be created on its own instance. It will accept applications from people who wish to create one, but they mostly reject applications on their own whim. I think the future of Lemmy as a Reddit alternative will rely on larger, freer instances to be supported well so they have room for growth and change. I have my personal preferences. I don’t want content from exploding-heads, but I also want to see the content I want to see. Some smaller instances are restricting that content, almost seeming to be like cults in the making. There are small instances from which it is impossible to find and subscribe to communities from lemmy.world. You have to search for them on a larger instance, then copy and paste in the address bar in your browser. I imagine on a dedicated phone app that would not be possible. So, you can advocate for “spreading out” all you want. In the end, if the goal is to have a strong alternative to Reddit, spreading out is kind of pointless for a lot of users.

      • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think there are some good reasons for servers restricting content. programming.dev is one of the biggest examples of this by not allowing users to create communities, however if you wish to moderate a community or ask for someone else to moderate one, and it falls within the interests of the server, there is a good chance it will be created. It might be obvious with that server, but it is almost all content relating to software development. It doesn’t really make sense to create a community of cooking recipes there, especially since several others exist within other servers. The biggest advantage to this in my opinion is that there aren’t dozens of empty communities. If you look at some of the bigger servers that allow users to create their own, there are tons of communities with 0 posts. I think its good that some servers out there allow users to create any community, but it makes sense for many servers to not.

          • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyzEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I wasn’t trying to create an argument, just pointing out not all of those instances are bad. No I didn’t assume that was all of what you meant. To me, it seemed like you didn’t understand the goal of instances like programming.dev. I try to keep in mind that many people are still brand new to Lemmy and wanted to offer counterpoints to your original comment. I wasn’t trying to nitpick your comment, sorry if you got the wrong idea.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      1 year ago

      It is surprising. A month ago they were Canadian servers, @smorks@lemmy.ca moved it to lunanode (Canadian). Perhaps CDN was moved or the whole machine was moved to a cheaper hosting platform since it got very big from then and is under new admin management as of a week ago-ish.

      Edit: found the answer from @Shadow@lemmy.ca, TL:DR is CloudFlare

      Correct! The server running this and all data is stored in Canada.

      Here’s a blurb from a doc I’m working on:

      Lemmy.ca is hosted in Canada at OVH in Beauharnois, QC with all data on a dedicated server. Backups are PGP encrypted and pushed to the OVH backup service, however these will be moved off-site in the near future.

      We use Cloudflare as a security and performance layer in front of the server. They accept the traffic for Lemmy.ca through a worldwide network of ingestion points, scrub it of abusive traffic, cache the images, and pass it through an encrypted tunnel to our server. This means they can see in plain text the data sent between us including your credentials, posts, comments and images. You can read more about their policies at https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/.

    • Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
      24·
      1 year ago

      We’re just behind cloudflare, the server itself and all us admins are Canadian.

    • Gleddified@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      The great Canadian-Dutch war. 4 people were injured and Kevin’s mom made pizza pops for everyone after.

    • Menachem@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I bet we fall just outside the top 10. Seems pretty busy here to me, plus our LOTR memes make top upvoted pretty frequently. Honestly I’m wondering if the user distribution might be pretty dang good below the top 5 servers or so; 234k could be a serious underestimation of the actual active userbase if the next 20 servers all have 1k+

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    And to think you thought you needed a John Oliver AMA. John Oliver don’t have anything on me.

    “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.