According to threadcount

222,397 Lemmy/kbin accounts
+23,441 in the last hour
71,331 monthly active users

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    2 years ago

    I don’t think we’ve seen any evidence of this yet but I think we should be skeptical of sudden spikes. Could be bots.

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    2 years ago

    That’s incredibly impressive! I haven’t noticed a single hitch and I’ve been browsing nonstop for the past hour or so.

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    2 years ago

    nice to be part of this, the fediverse is awesome. i joined kbin (readit.buzz) yesterday

    off-topic but OP is your username related to The Good Place?

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      2 years ago

      Hexbear migrated to upstream Lemmy yesterday (they were running a home developed fork from an earlier version of Lemmy). I submitted the instance to fedidb earlier today (after a bunch of failed attempts because fedidb kept erroring out/timing out for some reason). Afaik, federation is not active (yet) on their instance.

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        2 years ago

        Well, like lemmy, it’s recommended that we don’t all flood to one instance and overwhelm them. It seems most people have gotten the message re: lemmy but most are still just signing up at kbin.social

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          That’s understandable. I was just confused that the site that appears to list kbin instances is missing this one.

          However, we appear to be showing up now in that site list, so all is well.

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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      I feel like we may well be over that particular hump now.

      Now excuse me while I go give Ernest some more coffee. I somehow doubt he was expecting to become the founding father of a whole new social media ecosystem all at once like this. :)

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    2 years ago

    Wow, finally people are flooding in, just hope these instances can handle it. Did some youtuber mention us or something?

    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.socialOP
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      2 years ago

      According to the post I linked to, in the comments someone mentions that Lemmy and Kbin were mentioned on a Reddit post. ETA: I recommend rfollowing that account.

  • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    I’m a bit skeptical of 23k real new accounts in the last hour. If true, it’s quite something. But, it could be bots, it could be some bug inflating the numbers, it could be somebody taking advantage of the account creation bug someone mentioned earlier.

    We’ll see.

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      2 years ago

      the r/modcoord people finally admitted that there’s no use sticking around and have finally started saying to leave reddit

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      I suspect that will be the next wave too. Then whenever reddit gets closer and closer to going public I have a feeling they have more steps in place they will start to change/shut down more subs that don’t ‘align’ with a clean image they want advertisers and shareholders to see. The place will become more and more dry as everything becomes about pleasing those who pay them rather than the community.

      I could be wrong but with how they ignored and responded to the recent protest (whether people agree with the protest or not) they clearly are hell bent on their way or the highway.

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    2 years ago

    As awesome as this is, I hope it is not because of a bug someone posted about a few hours ago being able to create accounts in mass.Some people need to learn about responsible disclosure.
    If legit then this is fantastic!

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    I saw someone mentioned earlier today that there was norhing stopping automated account creation or something (I’m not tech savvy enough to knoww exact6what he meant) aand as a proof of concept, they created like 20,000 accounts or something on sh.it.just.works. So I’m hoping this isn’t just a flood of bots.

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    I know it’s early…but this seems a better start than Mastodon! Hope it sticks! Even if we get a fourth of reddit’s numbers I think we can have a great community!

    • Dav@kbin.social
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      Over 55 million active daily users on Reddit, a fourth would be cool but I’d be happy with a fifty-fifth too.

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        Haha I didn’t know how much reddit does. But even a fraction would be a good place, no oversaturation.

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          Definitely agree, there’s probably a line we need to cross where fedi becomes self sustaining, without being driven by Reddit’s drama.

      • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi
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        What was the Reddit userbase increase at the time of the Digg exodus? Or the Slashdot exodus? I’d be happy with those numbers. The ball should roll from there, especially as people get their grips with the concept of federation.

  • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.socialOP
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    P.S. This is another tracking account, this time for Mastodon accounts:

    @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social

    These are Mastodon’s latest stats:

    12,632,888 accounts
    +2,654 in the last hour
    +60,821 in the last day
    +372,962 in the last week

    They also are having a lot of recent growth.