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

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

  • Jay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    94·
    1 year ago

    Sorry dude, you’ll have to subtract one unfortunately. I created a NSFW account to have two different home feeds.

    Apologies for the inconvenience.

  • Colonel Sanders@lemmy.worldEnglish
    632·
    1 year ago

    Not to be the fly in the ointment, but you can’t really just add those up and expect that number to be accurate if we’re trying to look at unique users within the fediverse. If I had to hazard a guess, a not-so-insignificant chunk of those probably overlap (i.e. users who have made multiple accounts across several instances). I have made an account across lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin and fedia just as backups in case one instance fails. I might be an extreme case having 4, but pretty sure it’s becoming increasingly common for people to have at least 2 accounts (1 on a different instance).

    • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      1 year ago

      With this same logic in mind, I’d assume almost the entire population of lemmynsfw should be disregarded from this count, which is almost certainly majority comprised of people’s porn alts that they want to keep separate from their main accounts.

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, you’re not wrong. Too bad we don’t have unique user data to know for sure.

      That’s why I sorted by active users (users who comment or post, not lurkers) instead to get a more accurate picture with the given data. For example, sh.itjust.works has more users than beehaw.org, but it’s ranked below beehaw because of fewer active users.

      I think eventually instances with a lot of duplicate accounts will slowly fall out of the top rankings due to inactivity. That’s why I chose to look at just the top 10.

    • jdsquared@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I have two accounts. But that’s when lemme.world was kind of crashing because of that update, and I thought I was doing something wrong. So I went to a different instance.

      • DoctorTYVM@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I made a bunch of accounts on a bunch of instances when I first started because I didn’t understand how they were connected. Even now, I’d suggest having one or two on the instances you like and decide which ones work best

    • marsokod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, I am sure many people also have multiple accounts on the same instance. I am not sure what is the proportion between people opening accounts for backup like you and people just wanting alt accounts.

    • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know if this is counted but it’s also perfectly reasonable to have accounts on defederated instances. So if this is counted that might inflate the numbers a bit.

    • Maebbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      yeah same, i made an account on 3 instances, since i see some instances being trigger happy with defederating, its just not clear yet which instances will be the most free.

      • 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).

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

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

    • 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

  • sunbunman@lemm.eeEnglish
    45·
    1 year ago

    I wonder how many of these are unique? I’m sure that many, like myself, have created accounts on more than 1 instance.

  • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    I think that Lemmy does need more of the right exposure.

    If you search for any Lemmy content on Google or Duck-Duck-Go, you don’t get any good results. This is probably because most people use Apps or secure browsers that don’t allow tracking.

    Maybe Duck-Duck-Go need to have a !bang search modifier for Lemmy. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

  • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    Doing course correction in fixing social media is a long game. It’ll take a while, and there’ll be turbulence, but this is a great start

  • 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.

      • 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.

      • 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.

    • Dodgeit@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Some of that prime, homegrown free range organic shit posting

    • Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
      24·
      1 year ago

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

    • 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/.

    • 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.

  • exapsy@reddthat.comEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    and I mean, why not?

    fuck reddit, and any corporation that takes advantages of its users like reddit.

    We are the ones who give you value, not vica versa. Their IPO depends on how many users they have. Not on the capabilities of your app. And they treated it vica versa.

    From then I just made my parade for pro-privacy and for pro-anticorp that takes advantage of its users, deleted my META account thus my Instagram, Messenger etc. My Discord. I dont care anymore. Even if I dont have now I will find someday other options. Better or not, they are options. And Lemmy seems a very good one, even better I would say, just not as user friendly - yet. (Not that reddit’s app was good but we all knew that we had to use apollo/boost anyway)

      • exapsy@reddthat.comEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        It’s literally owned at large (undisclosed as a private company it is) part by Tencent , by one of the most major famous companies/puppets of CCP/Communist Chinese Party.

        China is known for abolishing anybody who disobeys their rules and anybody who accuses them of not being more “Free” or for criticizing them. (Egh egh … Jack Ma). Obviously anybody who opposes their demands ceases to exist. Anything they can’t control, they’re banning it. It’s a known fact, not a tinfoil one. With dozens of examples:

        • Google
        • Winnie the pooh - coz a bunch of uni students said Xi looks like him and he got insulted. How shitty ego can you have
        • Peppa Pig: This animated children’s show was temporarily banned in China because it was seen as a subculture icon of the “shehuiren” (society person), a term used to describe people who run counter to the mainstream value and are usually poorly educated with no stable job.
        • Brad Pitt: Following the release of the movie “Seven Years in Tibet” (1997), which portrays a negative view of China’s activities in Tibet, Brad Pitt was banned from entering China.
        • Bohemian Rhapsody movie: All references to Freddie Mercury’s sexuality and AIDS diagnosis were removed
        • South Park: well … any fun who watches south park knows. And there’s even an episode dedicated to that.
        • Lady Gaga, Selina Gomez, Maroon 5, Chinese Celebrities like Fan Bingbing disappeared for several months in 2018 amidst a tax evasion scandal
        • “Time-travel” TV dramas

        Anyway. We all know how China doesn’t like Criticism. This is just a list for the bots that will come down to accuse me of being tinfoil hatted.

        And discord is literally a platform with NO-TEXT-ENCRYPTION. So, OBVIOUSLY, YEAH, they know everything you write there. Literally. And your profile name, and your history, your servers, chat logs, what games you like more if you connected your steam, what music you listen to if you connected your spotify etc.

        Discord should be banned from the whole universe. Not just explode.

        • botorfj@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          that’s scary…

          i wish i knew this sooner, i hope i can manage to stop using that platform as soon as possible.