Hi folks!
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.
First, some stats
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 😅)
About lemm.ee
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.
Useful resources
- If you’re confused about anything, feel free to check out our F.A.Q.
- We have an instance policy for administration, moderation, and federation - feel free to check it out if you want to understand how admins and mods are expected to act on lemm.ee
- For staying up to date with instance news, feel free to subscribe to !meta@lemm.ee
- If you ever can’t reach lemm.ee, please check our status page at https://status.lemm.ee/ - I communicate updates on that page when dealing with any unplanned problems.
- You can always find these resources (and some more useful info) in the sidebar of our front page (https://lemm.ee/)!
Don’t forget to participate!
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!
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.
Hey, thanks a lot for taking care of the server and stuff : ) Looking forward to meet this nice community.
Welcome!!!
Just got permabanned sitewide from Reddit for saying “trans women are women” and nothing more than that, so I figured I’d check this place out.
Jeez wow, unbelievable
Wow, reddit sucks.
Yeah, Ive been seeing posts getting lot of upvotes recently welcome reddit refugees!!
This is encouraging. I wish i found out about Lemm.ee sooner. I had heard of it before but for some reason stayed on reddit that is until they IP banned me for a comment essentially saying “international law states occupied indigenous populations have a right to resist and fight occupation by any means necessary including organized violence” and now seeing how reddit is attacking people for supporting Luigi Mangione and calling for revolution against a decrepit disgusting fascist regime that obviously wont allow for any systemic change within its own mechanisms is beyond concerning. We need people still on reddit to spread the word and help those still trapped in that awful corporatist controlled community to break free and join lemm.ee
For how long I have to wait until I can upload images for a community after my registration? Thx
4 weeks. In mean time you can use catbox.moe or Imgur. Or any other Image Hoster.
Catbox doesn’t work for some users
How can I use a link to set the community logo/banner?
It’s possible but Lemmy UI don’t have any option for that. For this you need !summit@lemmy.world with turned on Imgur Upload in setting. Upload Image and Banner as normal also work PFP.
That’s why I couldn’t upload images, the UI on mobile never gave me an error explaining this, it would be good to better make users aware of this.
It’s written in sidebar of Instance.
Fair but when you’re using mobile apps like Voyager or Sync you just get a error and don’t understand why
Also there’s a limit of 500kb. So, I just used my own Image Hoster.
That is a wonderful chart.
Congratulations. Great to see growth :)
Hey! Any idea on why this wave is happening? Also, how does it compare to the initial Reddit “refugee” wave?
I saw a r/YSK (You Should Know) post about Lemmy today and was curious and had some time . I’m intrigued.
My congrats! Hope you enjoy your stay here in the fediverse, and don’t forget to donate to the admin that keeps the server running!
It’s crazy. I loved Digg until I had to go to Reddit to get the experience I loved once Digg began it’s enshitification. Now that Reddit is experiencing enshitification, I’m coming here. I hope this is the next iteration of the pure experience that I’m looking for.
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. Deleted my Reddit account for good. I can still use it as a resource to get answers to questions without needing an account.
If you’re accustomed to using Reddit via Android, you might like the app Stealth (download from F-Droid, source code at GitLab). It’s a privacy-focussed Reddit scraper/client with no account support. I don’t interact with Reddit any more, but on the rare occasion that I want to check on a community there, it does the job. You can bookmark communities you want to follow and get a feed, all the standard stuff you’d expect to do, besides logging in.
I love that idea, thanks. There are smaller communities on there that are going to be hard to replace for information and news on some of my more obscure interests.
Reddit heard we have a fediverse chick.
!! lol
I have her. What’s all this we stuff. Getting sick of everyone hitting on her.
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, Lemmy
It also has a Mobile-AppI use it alongside Reddit, and I’m enjoying it more and more, slowly switching over
Yeah, same. The whole moving away from US tech products got me on Lemmy amongst other services. Today I learned you can block users, which is an interesting concept to filter out the haters 😉.
Happy to join the party! Look forward to growing the community
Hello from lemmy.dbzer0.com
👀
wonder what the new signup stats on my instance is…
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com What the stats be, captain?
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.
Bring reddit down!!!
This comment was flagged as hate speech. Embrace for incoming ban.
Also: Bring reddit down!!!
Lmao!!! I was like…OK now where do we go?!
Just joined a few days ago, trying to get the hang of how the federation system works! Happy to be apart of the growth though!
Nice post!
New friends! :)
Thank you so much for creating this instance. I appreciate all your work.
