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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 5 points 4 days ago

Doesn't matter as much for lemm.ee as it's more of a utility than an instance, but I see instances more like traditional "subreddits" and comms within them as "hashtags" and categories. Hexbear's "games" comm is very different from Lemmy.mls, as an example.

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If I could change one thing about lemmy. I kind of wish communities worked like channels in IRC. When servers are federated if I go to #games on my server and you go to #games on your server. It does it's best to show the same content. So the instance is real but the community is vitrual abstracted by the protocol.

[-] Jordan117@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I feel like doing that automatically would just encourage instances to defederate if their larger communities didn't like the cut of another instance's jib. The culture clash would be harder to tolerate if content were mixed by default like that.

Maybe an easier way for end users to do it themselves? Like making a feed of multiple communities under one topic.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

So, more like servers on discord?

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

Yep! Great example.

this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025

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