There used to be the Alexa ranking for websites but it seems to no exist anymore. Elsewhere I only could find for lemmy.world ranking (something like 55000, yay!) but not the actual userbase, and nothing about any other instance (let alone the entire Fediverse).
You’ll know when it hits mainstream when it’s referred to on the nightly news and every media outlet is running at least an account for each program, but hopefully an instance for each organisation.
We’re nowhere near that.
I think significant media outlet uptake is more of a Mastodon metric, Reddit has a few high profile media outlet accounts - Tampa Bay Times I remember seeing quite a bit, they did a lot of good journalism about Scientology because Clearwater, but I think a lot of news companies slept on Reddit while it was worth using.
I think we have hit an interesting level for notability though. I use Bazzite Linux, and last month they sent a broken update for their version with legacy Nvidia drivers. I was one of the first people on the internet reporting having problems in a post here on Lemmy. As I stated to search my problem, I found that someone on the Bazzite forums linked to my Lemmy post because they had the same problem. They never commented in my thread and they may not even have an account. When’s the last time you saw a Tildes link in the wild?
I think this is the key to natural growth. Especially as more mainstream sites move to login required, and more and more search results are AI slop. Lemmy could be the last open and search indexable platforms left soon
its mostly propaganda accounts trying to make leftists look stupid
Lucky for you, I’ve been keeping track.
There’s exactly 56 of us.
Seems about right.
Nice seeing you again.
Hey guys, can one of y’all bring back that usb-c adapter when you’re done with it? Cheers.
I’ll bring it when I c it.
Can we count up to verify?
1
Did ya get me? I’m pretty quiet.
Thank you! This includes also non-lemmy/non-reddit-like sites, such as Mastodon, PeerTube etc, right? I tried to but couldn’t find in your link what is the share of Lemmy instances. EDIT, it took a while to load on my phone but actually there is a “pizza” diagram and lemmy is at about 3% or about 50k MAU as other reply stated. Thanks again!
lemmy is a software platform, so software -> lemmy
45k it is! Many thanks!
keep in mind thats active users. that number is usually a small percentage of unique visitors in any system.
If I recall, the rule of thumb is orders of magnitude. If you have 100 active users, there are probably about 1,000 lurkers, and only 10 substantial users that account for most of your content.
This is the rule from corporate marketing stats, tho, so who knows if the Fedi works the same.
While the user bases of Piefed and Mbin are smaller, they should be included as they federate with Lemmy and interact with our communities.
The same is true of Mastodon but that’s a lot harder to count since most Mastodon users are not interacting with Lemmy (since it’s a different style of platform - microblog vs link sharing).
I’m not even a real person. Just a meat popcicle trained by smart monkeys from the future of the past.
I think 50k MAU has been bandied about.
So pretty much stagnant as of now?
I remember this kind of sentiment in reddit back in the day before it went mainstream lol
I mean you say it’s stagnant and that may be technically true, but I see plenty of posts per day without repeats. I like where we’re at.
I wouldn’t say that, considering we (feddit.org) are currently experiencing a large growth from reddit users and others going away from US based platforms.
No, just slow and steady
FediDB has listed the overall Lemmy monthly active users at about 45k for a while now. It’s anyone’s guess how many actual humans that represents, since the number includes bots and alt accounts.
That number only includes accounts that post, comment, or vote. I would love to know how many silent lurkers are out there.
I’ll admit to mostly checking into Bluesky for a month in January. The user count is much higher but the quality-post count lower … unless you’re into phographs of cats and mushrooms, product-promoters, and political opinions. Forget any quality posts - a 300-character limit (but unlimited photo sizes) and 60-second audio/video limit encourage superficial sheepiality.
Not a desert, but next to one, and the water prices are higher. Probably 1000 lurkers for every liker, let alone comments … unless you’re an ‘name’ into self-promotion. Some names deliver inside info you’ll not see here.
Lemme delivers as much quality as bsky does. But you have to scroll thru more crap there.
