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

submitted 4 days ago by professionalvirgin@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Unsure on the specifics of how MAU is decided.

[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago

As far as I know, from when this was discussed after the first Reddit exodus, only commenting and posting makes you an active user. So the number is somewhat deceivingly small, as the vast majority on platforms like this are lurkers who maybe post/comment every once in a while at most.

[-] ludrol@bookwormstory.social 5 points 3 days ago

It was changed in 19.0 and now votes also count towards MAU https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4235

[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Oh, thanks for the info, that is great to know!

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Ah, gotcha.

this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025

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