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Does lemmy.world really have 22000 users already? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Since my last post yesterday, lemmy.world has added over 3000 new users, bringing the total user count to 22000 today (source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). It firmly holds the position of the second-largest lemmy instance, passing beehaw.org by a large margin of 10000 users.

In other news, beehaw has defederated from lemmy.world a few hours ago. How does the third-largest instance only have 4 ~~mods~~ admins for its 12000 users?!

So much going on!

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[+] JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[+] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It seems odd to me that Beehaw would choose a federated model if this is truly their approach.

The whole point of federation is that you'll have everyone from everywhere in your community, with exceptions for bad actors.

If Beehaw says "We want our community to be unified and work exactly as we say" it just seems like they should have forked Tildes or something?

I was talking to one of the Beehaw admins the other day and I think they mentioned they came from Tildes because they disagreed with how Deimos was running things or something like that. But Tildes is open-source and non-federated, so it seems like the more natural place to jump to for what they want to do?

[-] FeenisBoobicus@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, why pioneer a free and open platform just so you can curate a censored and closed echo chamber? That's why I chose Kbin, ernest seems much more interested in the success and development of the community and platform than enforcing whatever flavor of ideology.

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

No, they can choose to see content from local communities. The users posting in those communities, and the people commenting on those posts, can still come from any federated site.

[-] Celivalg@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 2 years ago

Nah, de-federation means they won't be seeing anything from lemmy.world on:

local posts
lemmy.world posts

They will still see lemmy.world comments on other instances, but lemmy.world posts won't appear on the ALL sorting.

In the same way lemmy.world won't be able to see beehaw posts.

Basically,

local only concerns posts that have been submitted on beehaw communities
All concerns posts submitted on any instance that is federated and to which at least one user on the instance is subbed to.

[-] Fake4000@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

A lot of users joined Lemmy.world due to the open sign ups. Whether they will be lurking or not remains to be seen.

[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

Yeah I used to lurk on reddit, but trying to be more active on lemmy.world. I'm a fan of what's going on with lemmy and kbin.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I missed what happened with mastodon.social. What moderation tools were missing?

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

The moderators.

[-] DekkerNSFW@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

That's a fun way to call all the moderators tools :D

[-] cura@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I saw on one of their post that they now have 36 mods, but I guess that's still not enough.

[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I think you're right, they have 4 admins. Corrected my post. Thanks!

[-] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

Exciting to see such incredible growth in such a short time! I do feel like that until moderation tools improve some instances might do something similar to beehaw. Given beehaw noted it was hopefully a temporary solution and they have stricter content guidelines than most instances.

[-] Sagar@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago

Beware of bots and cyber attacks, dear lemmy!

[-] LostCause@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

The growth right now is crazy, my chosen site/instance/? is struggling to stay up. I‘m really excited for this like I haven‘t been for any website in a good decade.

[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

What's your chosen instance? And yeah, I haven't been this excited since the whole digg vs. reddit switch back in 2010. And then there's mastodon this past year. I remember reading about needing decentralized social media back then, and now it's finally here.