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
    65·
    2 years 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.

    • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      You and me both brother… Plus my dumbass might have made one user for pornlemmy and and other for lemmynsfw. I need to be learned

      • Jay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Why? There’s porn and general stuff. And this dichotomy is beautiful. Like yin and yang.

        • Nahvi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I created my lemmy.world account first, but I like the site name for sh.itjust.works so I have one there too.

        • apazzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I’ll probably make a professional identity alongside my personal identity. So two total. Yeah.

    • meiti@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I think it’s okay, since people on all platforms create multiple accounts and throwaways.

    • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      Have a separate account on burggit.moe and lemmynsfw for this exact reason. Plus a lot of alt accounts on instances that are defederated (different usernames for each).

  • Colonel Sanders@lemmy.worldEnglish
    502·
    2 years 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
      26·
      2 years 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.

      • blargher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 years ago

        If anything, I’m betting the population of lemmynsfw is more representative of the number of unique accounts across all instances since there’s really no point in creating more than one porn account.

    • jdsquared@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years 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
        4·
        2 years 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

    • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years 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.

    • marsokod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years 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.

    • Maebbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years 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.

  • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 years 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

  • FxtrtTngoWhisky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    In looking for a replacement for Reddit, I came across this. I’m hopefully optimistic. The last straw for me in a long list of issues that I have with Reddit came yesterday. Lemmy has a long way to go, but I’m moving away from Reddit and will become active here.

      • FxtrtTngoWhisky@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        2 years ago

        Perma banned from r/Libertarian and a 3 day site suspension for saying “The cop would have had to shoot me too after that. Gun or no gun, I would have beat him within an inch of his life until I succumb to my wounds. My dogs are part of my family.” In response to a posted video of an Ohio LEO shooting and killing a Golden Retriever in front of her owner, while smiling and wagging its tail. Absolutely horrific watch.

        ETA: I still can’t get the images from this video out of my head. If you love animals, do not watch it, it will only anger you and upset you for days. I meant what I said and to be banned by a Libertarian sub for saying it was a kick in the balls.

        • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          “I dunno this seems pretty intense for – wait, protecting your family? Your pets?! They did what to that dog?! Nevermind then, this isn’t intense enough.”

          My mental processing of your comment as I read more and more

  • SageWaterDragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    235·
    2 years ago

    I have high hopes for Lemmy, but I don’t think that having a lot of users is going to be a super positive thing in the long term. It’d be great if it could feel like younger Reddit for longer than younger Reddit did, you know? Stay at least a little under the radar.

    • javasux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      I’m just looking forward to the meme subreddits becoming less outdated. Feels like 2017 in here

    • theragu40@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Reddit was and is impossibly easy to use. You visit the site and start scrolling. If and when you decide you want to participate you create and account and start doing so.

      The barrier to entry on Lemmy is much higher. This will keep out many of the types of low effort users that would eventually turn this into reddit.

      Maybe someday the fediverse will be as obvious to everyone as any other part of the internet but it’s definitely not right now and it will be awhile before it is.

      • SageWaterDragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It definitely took me a bit to wrap my head around the fediverse, but the presence of a “main” site (in this case, Lemmy.world, or in Mastodon’s Mastodon.social) has made it pretty easy for me. I hate that crypto nerds took “web3.0” because I think, in most ways, the true inter-operability of social networks is the next “web2.0”-tier step that the internet can take.

  • donut4ever@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    155·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy.world is gone forever for me. 😂 If I sign in, it tells me my log in is wrong. Then I sign on the web, it tells me to enter the 2FA code, I have never set up 2FA. Signed up with another email, kept saying captcha was wrong, then just failed and kept saying user already exists. Tried to log in with the new email that it told me it already existed, then it tells me wrong log in. I just gave up

    Edit: this has been very bizarre. Resetting the password sometimes works on the mobile browser only, but not on the desktop. Then now it just never works anymore. I already reset the password once and used it to log in, but on apps it gives an “invalid token” error, on the browser it asks me to enter my 2FA code, but I’ve never set that. When I try to reset the password again, nothing happens Ruud@lemmy.world would you be able to take a look at this for me, please? I don’t know if that’s the right way to mention someone. /u/Ruud

      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        CTRL-SHIFT-R if you’re not wanting to clear all your cookies (it clears the browser cache and reloads).

        It took a little bit, and a few tries, but it worked for me.

        • donut4ever@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          It works fine on the browser now after resetting the password, but not on any of the apps period. Tried everything.

          • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            On apps, you generally need to log out and back in again, which seemed to work for me.

            Don’t trust the app saying that you’re already logged out, try removing the account (if you can), and logging back in again.

            • donut4ever@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              31·
              2 years ago

              When you do a clear cache and data on the app, it wipes the app clean and puts it in a “just installed from the apps store” state. Still didn’t work. Not sure what to do. I’ve already signed up for another instance.

  • Epicurus0319@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    2 years ago

    We should spread out across it, if the lemmy.world hack and the fact that its admins are even flirting with the idea of fedding with threads are any indication