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How big is lemmy nowadays (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I discovered lemmy back when reddit started to charge for their API. However upon taking a look at it, it seemed that apart from like 8 communities,there was not much going on elsewhere. Things seem to have changed since then, quite a lot of active communities these days. So how many users do yall reckon lemmy has now? Is it close to 5M? or perhaps even higher?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

with an instantce having just 2 to 3 communities all around similar theme

There are a few servers like this and people are aware of the centralization dangers of .world. Its hard work to keep a system like this from turning to shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

trying to do my part; always on the lookout for non {dot}world communities to comment in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah imagine what lemmy would look like if reddit or Digg were not a thing and it went from forums directly to lemmy. The network would be so even and the the instance would tell you kind of what communities are there just by the name.