A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances.

  • lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    50,000 people is a LOT of people. Keep in mind that a good chunk of the millions of users on reddit and other social media sites are either separated and isolated into smaller segments, or even then most people just lurk.

    • Jomn@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m usually just a lurker but Lemmy makes me want to take part of the experience. I really hope that it will take off in the long run.

    • Rentlar@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I looked at the participation (active user) rate, it shows above 20% in Beehaw and 7% overall in Lemmy. Normally subreddits of 3,000-6,000 are kind of slow and people post once in a while, most probably lurk.

      Here, at least for now it’s really buzzing, people get a sense that they can be heard and real conversations are happening.