Whatever the number, I've definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I'm really glad to see more people joining and taking part.

I don't doubt there's a great amount of user growth, but it appears that many of those are account creation spam on instances with 1 active monthly user though.

July 1st is going to be interesting.

I understand the bot concern, but when I look at the comment and active user figures, they're all in the same trendline of exponential growth. This is the exodus just beginning. Personally I'm finding Lemmy to be a refreshing alternative that serves far better than what Reddit has become. I think it's what we've all been waiting for, and the secret's starting to get out.

Line goes up?

You failed to continue multiplicative growth therefore your investors are going to pull their money... Wait there are no investors, there is no ipo. I'm going to donate 10$.

Ngl, I'm gonna miss these early days I think. Hopefully we have instilled some type of decent, thoughtful culture on here that can keep us grounded and keep flourishing.

I really like getting in on these big threads later at night when everyone is chopping it up and making me think.

Soon, the novelty accounts are going to start showing up here again.

something something undertaker mankind cage something.

Bot accounts......so many bots......

https://149455152.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BotBots-Featured.jpg

@MicroWave
There is a huge bot issue right now (started 3 days ago). All the numbers are worthless.

It’s a known issue, all admins should add captcha to the subscription page, delete the bots and re-compute the actual number of users. Unless we do that, we won’t have a correct number.

We can still look at the Monthly Active Users. Bots don’t post (yet)

How easy is it!

I just used my Reddit name and continued here.

No effort what so ever.

Bit to wrap my head around the idea of subs being completely different communities on different servers, but I LIKE that idea.... no Fascist Overlords to control the groupthink.

I guess (if this is how the Lemmyverse/Fediverse works) is some AWS/cloud instances are going to be spun up hard and fast!

I'm super excited for Sync for Lemmy.

Also tinfoil hat on for a second. If there are really as many bots as people keep suggerting. Who has an interest in sabotaging lemmy?

But then it's probably the same bits which are everywhere now interested in lemmy because it gained users.

I think it's either bots or some spooky spammers that are falsely reporting the number of users. e.g. lemmy.k6qw.com currently claims to have 44k users with no posts...

the interface is just so clean. it feels like early internet and I love it.

Lets fucking go. Fuck you spez.

This is my first comment on Lemmy , excited to be here as we embark on a new journey away from Reddit.

I'm excited for Sync coming to lemmy , my go to app for reddit browsing was Sync.

And obligatory fuck spez

Notice the disparity between monthly active users and registered users. These are bots. I'm very tempted to block these instances outright.

we are already at over 1 million, there’s gonna be bot spam soon

Honestly the only thing missing now is a good app for iOS. However I’ve been using the mobile browser version and it works just fine. I hope Apollo’s dev sees an opportunity here and goes for it.

Sadly those are bots, real amount of users is around 150k. Source: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/176547

So now I just gotta build up a new feed from scratch, that's the part that sucks the most. So many nice niche communities I've discovered over the years on reddit... But it was time, reddit has been going downhill for years.

I came here in search for an alternative for reddit. I am glad I found this place

I wonder if these are real users or if someone wrote a script to register users via the lemmy API… 🤔

I'm really not sure these are spam bots. I suspect it's actually mostly people playing with the exploit that was recently posted on their personal instance. Definitely still bots though.

Unfortunately most of the communities I'm interested in are ghost towns

Love it, and we’re not even at 1st July, when all 3rd party apps stop working (shame or not I still go back to reddit with Apollo to enjoy the drama).

Also, we don’t need 400 million users to have a variety of communities with good discussion and content - a few million is more than enough, probably.

I joined like 10 sec before

I just joined lemmy and this is the first social media service where I could grab my short username instead of a longer one no one uses I'm very glad

I am one of them! Hello!

Lemmy is fantastic

The growth is insane, fediverse is coming!

I joined in the last few days. Seems like this site has much better content. Less bots and reposts. Plus, the user base seems a lot more intelligent in general at this point.