Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.
🎉 🎉🎉🎉
GET READY FOR JULY 1st
Update: We are now past 140,000 users. Growth is still accelerating.
When I checked yesterday it was 91,000 users, it’s now 109,000 and counting up fast!
100,000 🎉
Stats can be found here: https://the-federation.info/platform/73 - this site has been hugged to death for the moment.
Stats can also be found here: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Not exactly a long time lemmy user, but a long time lurker of reddit clones since before lemmy existed, and I’ve definitely spent time on lemmy before it was cool – it is absolutely amazing to see this platform take off. Lemmy was the first reddit clone where I thought to myself “they figured it out!!”
No other project was seriously talking about federation, for reasons which escape me to this day. What are the alternatives? We all go back to running disconnected, individual forums? We all go to some other enormous site which is guaranteed to have the same fate as reddit? How was this complicated conceptually? Lemmy got the right answer and is implementing it well enough that it’s actually got the potential to gain traction.
You would not want to try to replace reddit with the tools that came before lemmy.
Remember voat? Lol
I stayed away from that one. But I remember lol.
It was a shiny clean looking old reddit with great intentions and probably closer to my vision of speech but hot damn it was either people or campaigns because it got super racist real quick. Some have mentioned though that a lot didn’t seem genuine.