Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.

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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

  • Targox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some thoughts

    • So nodes and instants are interchangeable terms
    • wth 140k? I thought we were around the 30k mark or something. Great!
    • Lemmy.ml is bigger than .world but world has a lot more active users? Interesting. I think .world will be known in the future as the redfuge instant.
    • Beehaw defederated? That kinda defeats the point of the fediverse, doesn’t it? I’d be a little mad if some moderator could make that call for me if I was registered to Beehaw
    • Zetaphor@zemmy.cc
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      1 year ago

      Being able to defederate from an instance is the very definition of the fediverse. You are not beholden to a single provider

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        1 year ago

        You are right, but nevertheless as a user of said instance I’d be a tad annoyed. But I guess there’s nothing holding one back to register on another instance if that happens.

    • Magister@lemmy.world
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      Beehaw will certainly federate back when the problem at LW with trolls/fascists/racists/etc will be properly modded. The problem for beehaw is that LW is a victim of its success and beehaw is just protecting itself. Once properly moderated, beehaw will open its arms to LW.

    • Sens@feddit.ukOP
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      Yeah nodes and instances are kinda interchangeable terminology, instances is the right word to use really though for what we are referring to today, a node could be any server that provides a function or service to the lemmyverse but not necessarily a full instance, however right now, all we have are instances. As the Lemmy is developed we may see some functions of instances being handed off to other nodes, like a database node, to save on compute and storage costs.