Lemmy.world officially has 30k users!
Wow, since my post yesterday, lemmy.world has added 2000+ new users to cross the 30000 user mark! Just think, it was only at 20k three days ago. Crazy growth.
With that, lemmy.world is the clear second largest lemmy instance and has left the third largest instance beehaw.org’s 12k in the dust. It’s now within 6000 users to overtake the #1 spot from lemmy.ml (their registration is closed). Exciting to see this growth!
What are some of your favorite communities on lemmy.world so far?
To track lemmy’s growth: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
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the 99.46% uptime is also insane for the number of users, well done @[email protected] for doing an incredible job on this instance
Big thanks to Ruud. I'm not even on this server but I know he's the man.
Awesome stuff! 👏
It was less than 500 when I joined 10 days ago :D
The server itself is pretty new also, I think Ruud created it the first few days of June, huge props to him!
Great job Ruud!!
This will probably increase the cost of operationg and maintaining the server to keep this level of excellent server uptime.
A kind reminder that we can support Lemmy World and donate thru Patreon / Open Collective
Thanks for the link, just signed up and happy to contribute
I've joined two days ago and so far I'm really liking it, it seems like a nice alternative and there's something about it that really feels fresh, I think it's the fact that it's kind of slow content wise as of now since it takes time to build communities but that just makes me appreciate it even more.
we're witnessing something great taking place and I'm glad I'm part of it.
To me it feels like the soul of the old internet in the look and convenience of the modern internet. I am not sure if that's the right assumption since, but I feel like this decentralised, anyone can make a forum and host it and connect to others (fediverse) is what the internet was supposed to be like, a way to share information amongst each other
Honestly reminds me a lot of the digg migration - the amount of people joining a Lemmy instance is staggering
As a neighbor, I appreciate your empty defederation list. Too many lemmy instances start off with the atom bomb instead of user or community bans in response to bad behavior from individuals.
I hope you have lots of success. This side of the fediverse really needs more intellectual diversity, and I get the feeling that's what I'll continue to see from lemmy.world.
The only thing I'd be okay with defederating from is lemmygrad. It's only half satire and a wholeheartedly hateful place. It's a fast track to the reddit communities that would be removed for spreading hate and extremism. It's enevitably going become a misinformation chamber. Fuck that place... Should cut the cancer out now before it metastasizes.
Please walk me thru how to do so. I know how to unsubscribe from individual communities within that instance, but I do not see any option to block an entire instance.
Same here. I would love to do this.
You can? The feature request is still open
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397
As a reddit refugee it feels great to see Lemmy grow, and even better when you’re on the winning instance!! :)
I abandoned my first account on a weird instance. Glad to be on Lemmy.world
I was on Beehaw, but made an account over here so I can switch between the two since they're defederated. Someone said it's actually better to be on another instance since you can access both.
It's been amazing to see how fast this has all grown. There are seem real, sizeable communities here now!
Says the 7 day old user. 😎
Fair. I suppose I'm speaking as part of that growth
Same here, 2 day old user
Soon to be considered OG
New user who just joined today, happy to be here! 👍🏼
Welcome!
Oh boy 29999 friends that I can be obnoxious towards on main
So, are you excited for the new NFL season or are you more into college football? Let's talk fantasy football. My work buddies insist on using the ESPN app. But the Yahoo fantasy app is so much better.
Is there a website that is available that tracks all this information publicly?
These are good too.
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
https://the-federation.info/platform/73#drawer-opened
I saw this post on kbin.social too, did they refederate?
They had some DDOS problems and had to set up Cloudflare protection. Since a few days now they have rejoined the fediverse.
I'm curious how these numbers compare to kbin.social.
Edit: I'm stupid, all the numbers are in the link at the bottom of the OP.
Here is a link that shows all the kbin instances and their number of users: https://fedidb.org/software/kbin
Why the lemmy.ml registration is closed? Is it to give a chance for other instances to grow? Or because of they cant handle the sudden new users surge?
My main understanding is that lemmy.ml was the original instance hosted by the devs, and they want to focus their time on developing the platform rather than moderating new users. They also have some stricter mod rules over there.
But the whole intention was to get others to start hosting instances, so everything is going as planned.
Both
Yes.
i keep reading here and on reddit that that it's an alt right instance, and they don't want non alt right people joining. but that's hearsay.
Lol, no, it's too leftist for a lot of people.
Yeah, aceshigh might've confused lemmy.ml for the wolf something instance (genuinely can't remember). I'm a refugee too so I've only read about it but afaik it got defedersted pretty quick and died soon after.
While lemmy.ml is leftist and the devs are leftist, they aren't militant about it. Might be me tho. Though I'm biased, I'm leftist too.
Yeah, I'm definitely on the left side of politics as well. But I believe in free speech, and as long as racist bigots aren't facilitating violence or other crimes, they have a right to talk to each other. Doesn't mean that I want to be in a space where views like that go unchallenged, or support the people that make it possible.
It is interested that things went down like this right away in a federated landscape. Reddit really struggled with this for years, but it seems like the federation model was much more effective at moderating.
We comin for dat ass, Lemmy.ml
Let's here it for ruud, and all of us! Been really enjoying chopping it up with yous. I'm glad I randomly picked lemmy.world. (: thanks to whoever put up the link in some random reddit thread!
Fantastic! When I joined the week before the reddit blackout I believe there was something like 2,000 users. Such huge growth in a short amount of time! Consider donating a few bucks monthly to help with server costs. I'm doing my part!
I just created /c/oldphotosinreallife for those of us missing the old one. Hopefully some of the new users will find it and add some content.
this seems like a strange place to post about that; too off-topic in my mind. but nevertheless i'm glad to have found said community and did subscribe. you could promote your new community in a place like this: [email protected]
Thanks! I've posted there now. Still getting to grips with everything.
I’m still having challenges getting an account to actually go through at Lemmy.World. I’m able to see content from another instance, but I’m a fan of looking at “all” as it opens up a lot of great content that you might not catch otherwise, so having multiple accounts at multiple sites is something I’m planning for at this point.
Password too long? Is the limit known? I signed up last week with a 30 character password
I haven't had a chance to look at the Lemmy code, but is it really limiting password length? There's almost no valid reason to do this since it's just going to get hashed, and all the hash lengths are going to be the same regardless of the input string.
I had the issue too, but then I noticed in my email that there is a verify email that had to click. Once I click that I was able to get in just fine.
It's really unclear, but my issue was using underscores in my username.
Is there a way to find out which instance is defederated from which or a common list. I would not know about beeshaw defederating if not mentioned here.
not sure about common page, but you can check each instances federation status, for example on beehaw you can open this https://beehaw.org/instances
confirm this is working, add /instances behind to see the list of linked and blocked instances
You can look at "/instances" from each site, but my first stop would be https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances because you'll get a quick overview by how many instances each instance is blocked and how many instances an instance has blocked
Happy 30k day !
How many more users could be added? I know that lemmy has never been so popular so we can't really know, and that it will mostly depend on the hardware used, but have there already been any load tests that might give an idea?
I think I saw ruud or another dev saying the upgrade they did the other day will allow for pretty substantial growth before another hardware upgrade will be needed, and it's mostly about optimizing now. -Not a tech guy, no source.
This was the first planet I discovered.
It was the first one I was able to join. Beehaw didn't accept me. They're too exclusive for me.
lol, I'm not standing in line to go into the club. There's bars and clubs all over the place. Let's go....
Yeah on the 12th world let me in when nobody else would. Now I celebrate this place!
yes! i had the same issue, but with a different lemmy. i'm glad i heard about world when i did.
And now already at 31K, it does look like it's maintaining a pace of 1k~2k new users per day.
To the moon!!
/s
Very impressive!
Now let's see Paul Allen's instance
It appears my home instance has disabled new users. Interesting.
that explains why I couldn't make an account there
That's cool but also terrifying.
Congrats, ya'll! It's a fantastic instance :)
And we’re not stopping until we are the Lemmy
Today is my cake day! Isn't that great?
🎉 long live lemmy 💙
That is great to see for Lemmy.
Upvoted to 666 …. 🤘
Damn, its rapidly catching up to .ml!
It is still accelerating in growth. Crazy.
That's great, although I'd like to see some others up there as well to keep the fediverse healthy.
Does anybody know what the hardware specs are that lemmy.world runs on? It would be nice to get an idea of the hardware requirements to scale up that far.
According to Ruud:
Sexy! My websites are all run off parts scavenged from roadside signs.
Honestly as this tech matures I would expect like minded communities to end up running their own instances. Like photographers and such. Right now it's still in it's infancy.
Like https://startrek.website/ and https://programming.dev/
How many are active users and not alts?
Lemmy.world isn't for sale, Elon.
if you can't act maturely i hear this guy Spez has an online community for you.
I don't know why someone would be suspicious of you just for asking this question, but it's probably impossible to know that with any accuracy without intolerable user data leaks.
At least 5
lemmy.ml’s mods are marxists and pro-China, even in favor of the fascist atrocities, such as the Uyghur genocide/ethnocide and the Tiananmen Square massacre. Lemmy is open-source and they have indicated that people should use other servers if they don’t believe in those ideals because they mod that server with them in mind. Don’t use lemmy.ml as your base server unless you are a tankie extremist like then.
They did denied the genocide and massacre though. See https://lemmy.world/comment/311333, also https://lemmy.world/comment/329485.
People should go to whatever instance they feel comfortable with. At the moment, lemmy.ml is closed for signup though.
Thanks for bring this up. I agree with you. They straight up denied those incidents. However, the conclusion of my comment still stands. They are indeed "tankie".
Source
Aren't they also the developers of Lemmy itself? I would guess that is what Lemmy is kind of a play on; Lennin-Marxist. Pretty funny...
Timecube, eh? Haven't seen that in a hot minute. Or maybe four corner rotations of a hot minute.
Thanks Gene
Is it true that the .ml part stands for "marx-lenin" or is this misinformation?
Officially it is the domain of "Mali" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml Might be also the letters "l" and "m" which are the consonants of lemmy There is no ".lm" top level domain
That's for http addresses, isn't it? The ending of a lemmy instance is likely completely different - as you don't find url domains ending in ".world" or ".social".
EDIT: I'm wrong!
DNS-Names are not bound/specific to a protocol/service type. Of course some might fit better for a serivce, e.g. the top level domain ".im" fits "Instant Messaging" (e.g xmpp, matrix ...) services well. But still you could host a Website (https-protocol) on the same address. The list of valid top level domains is not static. new TLDs are being approved constantly. This means e.g. ".world" is a valid Top Level Domain but not many/big services use it for now, so it is rather unknown.
It’s the same, those are just newer tlds
I'm really confused reading your comment. Are you saying that the top level domains of .world and .social cannot be used for "ordinary" websites?
I don't know!
The domain doesn't have anything to do with what is hosted behind it, generally speaking. Any normal website could use .world or .social if they wanted to but they're uncommon
About the only TLDs that still have an enforced meaning anymore are .gov and .mil.