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Hi folks!
Over the past few months, we have started seeing a significant amount of new user sign-ups. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of our new members, and to share some useful resources and info about lemm.ee.
First, some stats
Here is a bar chart of daily new users (this is only counting users which have been approved by our admins):
As you can see from the chart, for most of 2024, we were accepting roughly around 10-20 new users every day. Then, from the start of this year, the daily numbers have been constantly growing. Yesterday, we approved a massive 609 new users on lemm.ee.
The increase in sign-ups is significant enough that I have been taking several steps to improve our monitoring & anti-bot measures, but so far, it seems the vast majority of the new users are completely legitimate real humans! (Thank you all for not being bots π )
About lemm.ee
This Lemmy instance is turning 2 years old very soon. It was initially created around the time of the Reddit API changes, when existing Lemmy servers were getting overloaded with new users - lemm.ee was intended to help spread the load. We're now the second largest Lemmy server when it comes to monthly active users.
Our core philosophy for this instance has always been to treat it as a generic gateway to the Lemmy network. I want to provide our users a stable and reliable home for their Lemmy account, so that they can have easy access to all of their communities, regardless of what instance the community is actually hosted on.
We run on some decently beefy hardware, and our setup is fairly customized in several ways in order to ensure a smooth experience for our users (most of the time, this has worked out quite well!). Our servers are currently hosted in Finland.
Our infrastructure has been funded by the community almost from the start through GitHub sponsorships and Ko-Fi donations. I am sure I speak on behalf all of our users when I say that I am extremely grateful to all supporters - you are really responsible for the continued existence of this instance!
Lemmy itself is open source software, and while it has improved massively during the time I have been using it, it definitely still has some rough edges. Please be patient when using Lemmy, and remember that it is being built collaboratively by humans (not corporations), without any intent of ever turning it into a business.
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- You can always find these resources (and some more useful info) in the sidebar of our front page (https://lemm.ee/)!
Don't forget to participate!
Communities on Lemmy only work if people actively use them. Even upvoting/downvoting based on quality of content is a great start, but I would really like to encourage you all to comment and even write posts, because that's really the best way to build communities.
If you have any questions or thoughts about lemm.ee or Lemmy in general, feel free to post a comment below this post, and myself or one of our veteran users will definitely respond.
I hope you enjoy your time on lemm.ee, and I wish you all a great week!
When people start getting banned for anti-billionaire statements you're bound to have an exodus of people who were there for this message being spread in the first place. I just hope this place does a better job dealing with bots.
Hello from lemmy.dbzer0.com
π
wonder what the new signup stats on my instance is...
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com What the stats be, captain?
Just joined a few days ago, trying to get the hang of how the federation system works! Happy to be apart of the growth though!
Nice post!
Could u edit the post to teach the newcomers about community mentions ie !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com
Lemm.eeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
lemm.ee is the place to be!
Is there any place for seeing instances defederations?
Whem you visit lemm.ee with your browser and scroll all the way down, you wiill find a link called Instances
I think you mean lemm.ee instead of lemmy.ee
Gee, both links were broken. Thanks!
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[instance name]/instances, then click on the blocked instances tab.
Hopefully Lemmy becomes bigger than Reddit. I was banned from Reddit for life and it's unfair because it's up to the whims of various moderators.
lol what did you do to get banned for life??
I carry here as a year and a half (before I was in another instance that closed) and I can say that the increase in traffic, participation, comments, vows etc. For a couple of months it is remarkable.
I don't know if it's for Trump pushing Europeans and Candadia outside their products, for Reddit turning its platform into shit full of bots and unpopular standards or a combination of both, but I think that the network and community is doing really good (we even have a community of conservatives, half a year ago something like that would be unthinkable)
I'm a sponsor and I'm not saying this to get thanked or something, I just want to say that I kick in $2 a month. It's not a ton but if I can help keep this place running then I'm happy to toss a coin to my admin π
Thank you very much for the support!
Our infrastructure costs are currently quite stable at around 200β¬ per month, and considering that the instance is right now quite decently supporting nearly 6000 monthly active users, you could say that you are indeed relatively contributing a ton - you are effectively covering server costs for 60 people!
The fact that itβs a monthly amount is particularly great, because with recurring income, we will get advanced warning if there is danger of funds starting to run low.
Monthly amount is the way to go! I chip in a whole fiver over at feddit.org each month, because that's easily worth it. You get what you pay for, after all.
Why the sudden rise? Actually bonkers
Redditors are feeling the rise of corporate sponsored censorship and are looking for alternatives.
Reddit started banning people for upvoting a certain way.
Some people are currently looking for European and more private alternatives to traditional social medias. Hopefully more will follow.
That's awesome! I don't know what sparked more people to come over though. Would be great if someone can fill me in since I'm so out of the loop.
Also, PSA to all new users on Desktop: Try Alexandrite - a gorgeous front-end for Lemmy https://alexandrite.app/lemm.ee/
My boost for reddit suddenly stopped working last week, so I figured I may as well see what all this is about. Happened to coincide with what seems to be an increase in reddit's content moderation where even peoples' votes are being policed.
Pretty much exact same situation as me
Congratulations - feddit.uk has also see an order of magnitude growth in sign-ups, just from a lower base. This is definitely Rexxit 2.0.
It's all trash redditor implants who think they're opinions are absolute and make the fediverse politically, individualized, and nonsensical garbage. First time I logged in and contributing to the fediverse in about a month, and of course, I see this that makes me immediately pissy.
Yes. More people that get offended at the words "rape" and "kill" are exactly what the fediverse need. This is total pandering for the sake of members and publicity. And no one needs to worry. I'm gradually working away from this platform because unfortuantely most people here just want to virtue signal or trauma dump to either make themselves feel better or feign ignorance that they're talking to another person just so they can can feel better about their sorry lives by tearing down this person or group on the internet.
Heavy modlog: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=12782521
Oh no. Someone showing my opinions. I have been defeated! /s
Welcome, new neighbours!
While checking out this wacky new space, I'd like to emcourage everyone to check out the Local tab, either at the top of your feed, or in your app menu. That's where yoi'll find posts from "communitues" (Lemmy's "subreddits") that are hosted on lemm.ee!
A lot of communities are on different sites, and are ported (tarriff free!) for your enjoyment, but as with most things, it seems, the most sustainable way forward is to support Local!
One thing that many people new to Lemmy and the wider "fediverse" (because it's not just people on Lemmy-based websites that you'll find posting in the communities here, surprisingly enough) struggle with is that each website on the network has its own "name space", meaning that each community name can be used on each site. So, you can have, say, !pottery@lemmy.ca, !pottery@lemm.ee, and !pottery@lemmy.world. People often fret over "having to follow all of them", and wanting ways to collapse them into a single forum. And for a really niche topic, that might make sense (the thing to do, though, is just pick the one that best serves you and don't worry about what's going on on the other side of the fence). But for bigger topics, this "splintering" is often a godsend, since we can all have real discussions about the topic in smaller spaces. And, of course, !politics is going to just be meanibgfully different on .ca vs .ee vs .world.
If you look to local first, it becomes much easier to stop worrying and love the ~~bomb~~ distributed network.
Respectfully I would disagree with part of your message. It sounds a bit like you're encouraging some degree of instance tribalism, but the whole beauty of Lemmy is that I can be a regular and full member of [!something@lemmy.ca](/c/something@lemmy.ca) with my @lemm.ee account.
For new members, I would have the opposite advice: don't pay too much attention to what instance a specific community is on. Just treat each community as its own entity and each person as an individual.
The reason I bring this up is that I think useless instance tribalism can be a real issue on Lemmy sometimes. I have seen statements too often along the lines of "oh you have an account on , so I will just ignore you".
It's not "instance tribalism", it's making sure the website you're using isn't just some dumb terminal, and preventing the network from collapsing down to "lemmy.world and some empty tributes".
It's creating a space that is resilient to network splits, and accepting the fact that, at some point down the road, network splits will happen.
It's seeing the fediverse through a "Local+" lens, and encouraging people to treat their local site as meaningful. And rejecting the illusion that this is centralized social media.
Look for what you want on other sites. But there's no reason to look off-site first, if what serves you is already hosted locally.
the thing to do, though, is just pick the one that best serves you and donβt worry about whatβs going on on the other side of the fence
Not sure we have enough of a userbase and content posted to recommend that
It totally depends on how many people one needs in a community, and how much content they're posting to feel served, doesn't it?
The persistent FOMO that has floated around Lemmy for the past two years has not been a positive for the space.
Hey! Any idea on why this wave is happening? Also, how does it compare to the initial Reddit βrefugeeβ wave?
Reddit heard we have a fediverse chick.
I have her. What's all this we stuff. Getting sick of everyone hitting on her.
!! lol
As for why, it's probably due to the censorship screws getting tighter at Reddit. Luigi is a bad word. Eating the rich is verboten. Just 2 examples. Interacting/upvoting such content is now also an offense even if you didn't write it yourself.
For many, it's their stop to get off the train. Mine was the API boogaloo.
a big driving force is r/BuyFromEU with 150k active subs and r/BuyCanadian with 300k
They're trying to move away from US products, including tech.
Also the Luigi censorship as mentioned.
Now is a good time to comment something like this on those subs to help guide people.
Try out the European-Hosted Reddit alternative,Β Lemmy
It also has aΒ Mobile-App
I use it alongside Reddit, and I'm enjoying it more and more, slowly switching over
We had a few really huge days in 2023, but other than those, it seems like the growth so far in March is definitely outpacing our initial wave of new users in 2023.
Great post !
That is a wonderful chart.
Congratulations. Great to see growth :)
Happy to be here, happier to see it grow!