A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances as a bar chart race: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14058992/ and as a line chart: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14080522/.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!
My join request hasn’t been acknowledged yet and it’s been a couple of days :(
Ditto, I joined lemmy.world instead
Yeah I’m on .world too. Ruud, the sysadmin, is working on improving reply delays.
With a username like that !nsfw@reddthat.com might be something interesting to you
Nice, thanks.
If you use gmail, go ahead and try to log in to beehaw - some people were accepted and didn’t get confirmation emails sent to their gmail because of a bug. I think they may have fixed that by now, but it’s possible this got you.
Other people are stuck in a “pending rejection for insufficient info to tell if you’re a fit for the community, but you can re-apply with more info” pile, I think.
They’re just super overwhelmed right now.
I just signed up and got in in a few minute! It’s worth the wait!
Why is lemmygrad so popular?
If I remember my Lemmy history right (someone correct me)…
In the early days of Lemmy, everyone was on one instance (lemmy.ml). The founding Lemmy developers (and their friends, I guess) were tankies. At some point they decided to make Lemmy more attractive to the general population, and make the flagship lemmy.ml less overtly Marxist-Leninist/offputting. So they split lemmy.ml into 2: lemmy.ml for non-commie stuff, and lemmygrad.ml for commie stuff. Since the bulk of Lemmy users in the early days were still tankies (or their friends), they were still generally using both instances very heavily.
The day that lemmygrad.ml ceases to be the #2 instance and becomes just another niche-interest instance is the day we can say Lemmy has truly become mainstream, I think.
All the cancerous social rejects and useful idiots. Wouldn’t be surprised ir it’s being propped up by Russian/Chinese propaganda machine either. At least I sincerely hope some of the people there are not real.
Tankies are the persistent type.
I had to look up what a tankie was. Back in the day, we called them ‘pinkos’.
Poked my head in to the AMA and it’s basically what I expected. To the surprise of no-one Spez is a tool and should go boil his ass.
I spent years on Reddit and somehow didn’t realize until today what an unscrupulous person he is. And not only unscrupulous, but downright unprofessional.
We can say what we want about someone like Mark Zuckerberg, but he would never behave in the way that Spez did in that AMA. It’s just not befitting of the CEO of a company.
He also had a bit of controversy several years back when it came out that he was stealth-editing other people’s comments.
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The answers were infuriating beyond all reason. Like dude… If you’re trying to avoid being used for training llms, that’s totally reasonable. Nuking all 3P apps is an insane response, fuck off.
Beehaw 🔛🔝
Yeehaw Beehaw!
Is there a time-series plot version of this? I always have difficulty really absorbing the data when it is animated like that.
I really like where this is going. Feels like we’re settling a new frontier!
Wow beehaw really took off recently huh?
What this doesn’t show is active users, just total. For quite some time we’ve been one of the most active large instances. I don’t remember the exact timing, but we’ve held the spot of 3rd most active for some time, we just now have total users to match that.
Hey the bee mascot is cute, who wouldn’t join
I notice (and I realize it’s most likely an issue at the source and not the fault of the creator) that some now-dead instances which were formerly top-10 aren’t show here. Hexbear also isn’t shown: while it (currently) doesn’t federate, similarly to bakchodi, it is also a fork and so technically not Lemmy, but pretty much Lemmy.
I used https://the-federation.info/'s Lemmy page to determine the current top 10 Lemmy instances as of the 8th of June 2023. The website only has sorting function for the current data, and the instances have to opt in to be included. Therefore, it is likely that some instances are not included. Furthermore, the website seems to only contain data from the last year, so the website do not have documentation on the top instances prior to this period.
The numbers are still quite low compared to what the activity now feels like. Two weeks ago I could easily read all posts and comments and now I can’t follow the many new posts ^^
I’m being a lot more active here than I was on Reddit. Trying to make sure it feels like a dynamic space for new redfugees :)
Same here, I am just afraid this will stop after the first wave of enthusiasm.
I’m feeling the same way, but I suppose we’ll soon see.
Even if the reddit exodus doesn’t turn into another internet legend, I am enjoying having fun participating in a forum for the first time in a long time. Probably since reddit stopped feeling like one in the early 2010s.
Same here as well, really enjoying it so far.
Well… dare I see me also! I told my wife “I’m pretty sure this is the push to Web 3.0.
50,000 people is a LOT of people. Keep in mind that a good chunk of the millions of users on reddit and other social media sites are either separated and isolated into smaller segments, or even then most people just lurk.
Yeah, I’m usually just a lurker but Lemmy makes me want to take part of the experience. I really hope that it will take off in the long run.
I looked at the participation (active user) rate, it shows above 20% in Beehaw and 7% overall in Lemmy. Normally subreddits of 3,000-6,000 are kind of slow and people post once in a while, most probably lurk.
Here, at least for now it’s really buzzing, people get a sense that they can be heard and real conversations are happening.
I’d wager a large percentage are bots, too!
You just got used to have millions of users on sub, and forgot that tens of thousands of users is a lot. Especially New users, who is going to read and comment a lot, compared to reddit with half of users being, like, not active at all.
Makes sense. A friend of me unfortunately turns Lemmy down because the largest instance has “only” 1.6k users
I’m going to bee honest, the mascot was a big factor in picking this instance for me.
So far it’s not over run by assholes and brigades so I’m diggin it, even if content is sparse for now!
Yup. That played a big role for me, too. The other factor was lemmy.ml was the first to approve my signup, finally giving me the ability to post. I’m still looking around to get a feel for other instances, and might even set up my own.
Only reason I didn’t go to lemmy.ml is because their top post was “please go somewhere else.” Lol
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Is it possible to message on mastodon and peertube with lemmy (or is it only through kbin currently)? I was trying to figure out how that worked but had some difficulty
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There are some mastodon accounts/bots that update statistics about mastodon everyday. It would be awesome to do the same thing about lemmy on regular basis, like once per week or month. Awesome.
I don’t see anything. All it says is a flourish data visualization
Click on one of the links, and you will be taken to the page where the visualization is. The visualizations are not rendered on beehaw.org.
Ok it works now
This is really cool, thanks for sharing! Do you plan to update it again in the future? I’d love to see what happens an about a month!
Yes, I plan to update it again after the 8th of July.
Dope! I wonder what the numbers would be for active users
