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Over the past few months, we have started seeing a significant amount of new user sign-ups. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of our new members, and to share some useful resources and info about lemm.ee.
Here is a bar chart of daily new users (this is only counting users which have been approved by our admins):
As you can see from the chart, for most of 2024, we were accepting roughly around 10-20 new users every day. Then, from the start of this year, the daily numbers have been constantly growing. Yesterday, we approved a massive 609 new users on lemm.ee.
The increase in sign-ups is significant enough that I have been taking several steps to improve our monitoring & anti-bot measures, but so far, it seems the vast majority of the new users are completely legitimate real humans! (Thank you all for not being bots π )
This Lemmy instance is turning 2 years old very soon. It was initially created around the time of the Reddit API changes, when existing Lemmy servers were getting overloaded with new users - lemm.ee was intended to help spread the load. We're now the second largest Lemmy server when it comes to monthly active users.
Our core philosophy for this instance has always been to treat it as a generic gateway to the Lemmy network. I want to provide our users a stable and reliable home for their Lemmy account, so that they can have easy access to all of their communities, regardless of what instance the community is actually hosted on.
We run on some decently beefy hardware, and our setup is fairly customized in several ways in order to ensure a smooth experience for our users (most of the time, this has worked out quite well!). Our servers are currently hosted in Finland.
Our infrastructure has been funded by the community almost from the start through GitHub sponsorships and Ko-Fi donations. I am sure I speak on behalf all of our users when I say that I am extremely grateful to all supporters - you are really responsible for the continued existence of this instance!
Lemmy itself is open source software, and while it has improved massively during the time I have been using it, it definitely still has some rough edges. Please be patient when using Lemmy, and remember that it is being built collaboratively by humans (not corporations), without any intent of ever turning it into a business.
Communities on Lemmy only work if people actively use them. Even upvoting/downvoting based on quality of content is a great start, but I would really like to encourage you all to comment and even write posts, because that's really the best way to build communities.
If you have any questions or thoughts about lemm.ee or Lemmy in general, feel free to post a comment below this post, and myself or one of our veteran users will definitely respond.
I hope you enjoy your time on lemm.ee, and I wish you all a great week!
Signed up awhile back, finally started using it yesterday. Thank you for all the work you all do!
Using browser and boost for lemmy
Itβs really nice to see this kind of growth because itβs decreasing the overall share of the Lemmy userbase on lemmy.world and therefore increasing the stability of the network. There had been worries that lemmy.world would steadily increase its share of the userbase and become a single point of failure, but that seems increasingly unlikely.
The censorship on reddit has gotten insane. Here's hoping lemmy continues to grow!
Is there a community for asking a question about the existence of other communities related to a specific topic?
I want to find out if anyone knows about any communities regarding a political topic, but the ask community rules state no politics.
Thank you for hosting this space. π«Ά
Yes!!
Remarkable growth in the past week, and indeed past 3 months. Thank you for providing the stats.
Lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works had been similar in size for most of 2024 (2500-3500 MAUs), but you're now nearly twice our size!
It's really nice to see this kind of growth because it's decreasing the overall share of the Lemmy userbase on lemmy.world and therefore increasing the stability of the network. There had been worries that lemmy.world would steadily increase its share of the userbase and become a single point of failure, but that seems increasingly unlikely.
Lemm.ee has always been a well-run server with great performance and an excellent admin and it's great to see that new users are choosing an option that will give them the best possible version of what Lemmy can offer.
One of the reasons I use this snippet below to promote Lemmy is that it defaults to lemm.ee and users don't run into descision fatigue when picking an instance
Try out the European-Hosted Reddit alternative,Β Lemmy It also has aΒ Mobile-App
I use it alongside Reddit, and I'm enjoying it more and more, slowly switching over
It would be nice if it could also default to eg. sh.itjust.works and other generalist instances
sh.itjust.works
I've seen people deterred by the name containing"shit"
For me it was one of the main motivations to join sh.itjust.works
Yes, it usually works both ways, people like it or hate it
Like Marmite.
I'm a sponsor and I'm not saying this to get thanked or something, I just want to say that I kick in $2 a month. It's not a ton but if I can help keep this place running then I'm happy to toss a coin to my admin π
Thank you very much for the support!
Our infrastructure costs are currently quite stable at around 200β¬ per month, and considering that the instance is right now quite decently supporting nearly 6000 monthly active users, you could say that you are indeed relatively contributing a ton - you are effectively covering server costs for 60 people!
The fact that itβs a monthly amount is particularly great, because with recurring income, we will get advanced warning if there is danger of funds starting to run low.
Hello lemm.ee!
Iβm one of the 609 new users who joined yesterday π
At first, I didnβt know much about Lemmy, I just found lemm.ee through join-lemmy.org (filtered by "All topics - english - most active") and joined because it was the most popular instance...
Initially, I thought I needed to create an account on every instances I wanted to join to access more content, but after reading a lot of posts (in particular in this community!), I finally understood how federation works.
Now that I know more about Lemmy and lemm.ee itself, Iβm actually really happy with my (uneducated) choice!
As for the "why now?", I think like many Reddit users, I'm getting tired of the ongoing ensh*ttification, especially with the recent issues around upvotes... And yesterday was a rainy day, so I took the time to finally understand how Lemmy works, and here I am.
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!
Iβm excited to be part of this growing community! The increased censorship of Reddit and breaking away from U.S. services were the biggest reasons for me trying Lemmy out.
I joined yesterday here too! I already hated reddit for the API thing (even though I use infinity) and for the enshittification that was happening, but censoring Luigi was way too much. Happy that I'm not the only one making the switch
Hey! Any idea on why this wave is happening? Also, how does it compare to the initial Reddit βrefugeeβ wave?
As for why, it's probably due to the censorship screws getting tighter at Reddit. Luigi is a bad word. Eating the rich is verboten. Just 2 examples. Interacting/upvoting such content is now also an offense even if you didn't write it yourself.
For many, it's their stop to get off the train. Mine was the API boogaloo.
Yep, I've been flirting with Lemmy for a year and a half and come here every time Reddit really pisses me off or bans me for something I would have never been banned for 10 years ago.
I'm not flirting with it anymore. This recent batch of censorship is too much. It's the last straw. Left my Reddit account for good. I can still use it as a resource to get answers to questions without needing an account.
We had a few really huge days in 2023, but other than those, it seems like the growth so far in March is definitely outpacing our initial wave of new users in 2023.
a big driving force is r/BuyFromEU with 150k active subs and r/BuyCanadian with 300k
They're trying to move away from US products, including tech.
Also the Luigi censorship as mentioned.
Now is a good time to comment something like this on those subs to help guide people.
Try out the European-Hosted Reddit alternative,Β Lemmy
It also has aΒ Mobile-App
I use it alongside Reddit, and I'm enjoying it more and more, slowly switching over
Just joined a few days ago, actually loving it so far. Of course we lack a few of my fav subs here but I know it'll grow.
Signed up last night. With the oversight dumpsterfire that reddit has become, I really hope Lemmy continues to grow at a good clip.
Iβve been wanting to get away from the primary social media platforms because reasons and Iβm glad to have found lemm.ee just yesterday! Iβm still looking for good alternatives for instagram and youtube but in fairness I havenβt done a lot of research yet. Happy to be apart of something new!
Youtubes a tough one. You kind of need lots of capital to keep the servers running if it becomes too popular
I carry here as a year and a half (before I was in another instance that closed) and I can say that the increase in traffic, participation, comments, vows etc. For a couple of months it is remarkable.
I don't know if it's for Trump pushing Europeans and Candadia outside their products, for Reddit turning its platform into shit full of bots and unpopular standards or a combination of both, but I think that the network and community is doing really good (we even have a community of conservatives, half a year ago something like that would be unthinkable)
LEMMEE IN! (γγγΌγ)γ
Lemm-ee is a cool brand too. Good job, Estonia!
You can thank Reddit for your new success, and I hope it continues. I was a 12 year member, with nearly a million Karma, and i was perma-banned for an opinion that I had stated numerous times with no problem. After the election, the same opinion got me permanently banned.
That was their excuse anyway. In reality, Im sure it was 12 years of resistance posts against the rising treason, corruption, and oppression of the Republican/MAGA/Nazi party. Now they are deleting any mention of Luigi, even in legit Mario Bros/Videogame discussions, and banning people just for upvoting. They are kicking out old, loyal, active members, just for using Reddit for what it was supposed to be used for. Kind of like what the FBI is doing to their agents who investigated HitlerPig's corruption and treason. Its the MAGA way, and Reddit is on board.
I wondered why Reddit would have so obviously made the choice to voluntarily join the Conservative Propaganda Machine, then I saw that Ohanion wants to buy TikTok. So does Zuckerfuck, and probably a lot more (Bezos? Musk?). They all know that it will be HitlerPig who will choose, and he will choose the guy who smooched his ass the most, and paid the biggest bribe. So turning Reddit into a MAGA propaganda mouthpiece was Ohanion's show of good faith.
I hope Reddit goes the way of Digg, and Lemmy takes over. The decentralization seems like a massive improvement over Reddit.
Welcome! I'm pretty new as well, and came from Reddit when Spez first started to censor for Trump. I had a 13 year account. I deleted that shit, and do not regret it.
That's awesome! I don't know what sparked more people to come over though. Would be great if someone can fill me in since I'm so out of the loop.
Also, PSA to all new users on Desktop: Try Alexandrite - a gorgeous front-end for Lemmy https://alexandrite.app/lemm.ee/
When people start getting banned for anti-billionaire statements you're bound to have an exodus of people who were there for this message being spread in the first place. I just hope this place does a better job dealing with bots.
Been here since the reddit API changes two years ago, and until this post didn't realize I had joined a brand new instance. Lemm.ee is the only instance Ive used and I love it.
I've never seen drama about or by this instance, it's just a place to get your Lemmy, no judgement or gatekeeping like on some others. Welcome all!
Hi, just joined today. Already love it! I somehow get more interaction on here than I do on reddit.
Definitely looking forward to small communities again.
Hi, new here, trying to get rid of 'murican stuff.
One question though: what is the stance on lemmygrad and its users on this instance? Their comments are disturbingly russian in nature
