The user count at the moment of this post stands at 33279 and continues to grow!

To take the #1 spot from lemmy.ml (36185 users and no longer growing), lemmy.world just needs about 3000 new users. Given the current growth rate, that should only be another day or two.

We’re building something here! Kudos to lemmy.world admin @ruud@lemmy.world for all of his hard work keeping this site running smoothly.

To track lemmy’s growth: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

  • Lostman@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think the biggest issue to user growth will be getting the word out that this place exists. Like a lot of people, I’m trying to find a more ethical alternative to Reddit and had no idea kbin was a thing.

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I never heard of lemmy and kbin either before 2-3 weeks ago, yet here I am. Info about alternatives has been plastered everywhere on reddit since then, really hard to not see them.

    • Greenskye@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have little understanding of the technical details of Lemmy, but I’m having a hard time understanding how it can scale. How do you build something like /r/funny with 40 million subscribers when the biggest Lemmy instance seems to be suffering at 30k users?

      As far as I can see while users can subscribe to communities on different instances, communities themselves are locked to a single instance. How could a multi million strong community grow here?