The user count at the moment of this post stands at 33279 and continues to grow!
To take the #1 spot from lemmy.ml (36185 users and no longer growing), lemmy.world just needs about 3000 new users. Given the current growth rate, that should only be another day or two.
We’re building something here! Kudos to lemmy.world admin @[email protected] for all of his hard work keeping this site running smoothly.
To track lemmy’s growth: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
it was the first one I found, not even sure I knew what I was picking when I signed up.
Same here. Then after doing some more reading I guess it’s better if people spread around more. But I can not fault them for doing exactly the same thing.
Yup, I actually have used Mastodon so I know what different instances are, but I made a Lemmy account on a whim and the instance I just happened to land on by chance was this one.