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 [email protected]
- 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!
Bring reddit down!!!
Hello lemm.ee!
I’m one of the 609 new users who joined yesterday 🎉
At first, I didn’t 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, I’m 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!
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
Hopefully Lemmy becomes bigger than Reddit. I was banned from Reddit for life and it’s unfair because it’s up to the whims of various moderators.
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)
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 🙂
Thank you very much for the support!
Our infrastructure costs are currently quite stable at around 200€ 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 it’s 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.
Monthly amount is the way to go! I chip in a whole fiver over at feddit.org each month, because that’s easily worth it. You get what you pay for, after all.
Boost for reddit stopped working for reddit. Then I saw they made a boost for Lemmy. Was curious and now I regularly check this platform out.
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/
My boost for reddit suddenly stopped working last week, so I figured I may as well see what all this is about. Happened to coincide with what seems to be an increase in reddit’s content moderation where even peoples’ votes are being policed.
Same here. Between blocking all API workarounds and threatening me with a ban for upvotes, it seemed like high time to run a deletion script on my 16-year account and pack it up.
Pretty much exact same situation as me
There was a popular post on YSK on Reddit yesterday that sent me here, and at least one other commenter I’ve seen said the same thing.
Not sure about posting Reddit links here, but this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1j7g7ju/ysk_the_reddit_alternative_lemmy_has_gotten_much/
Why the sudden rise? Actually bonkers
boycott of American products and support for a European increased independence movement
Reddit started banning people for upvoting a certain way.
You are safe to express ur self in this here social media dear…
They hate the idea that internet loves Luigi haha
Some people are currently looking for European and more private alternatives to traditional social medias. Hopefully more will follow.
good, as soon as spaz started gargling the billionaires, it went to crap.
He was always on their team…
Hi dudies
hi! is there any “default” community or a place where every new user is automatically registered in? or a place where we can see some kind of graph for lemmy users signing up on a daily basis? would be nice for [email protected] datahoarding too haha.
thankyou!
FYI, Blaze is the go to for the fediverse. So if you need anything, you know who to ask!
oh wow! didn’t know. thanks a lot!
Anytime, buddy.
Thank you for your kind words
Hey, there isn’t any default community right now. There are a few different databases that track graphs of such things, for example, fedidb.org.
thanks! will check that out. hats off to you for your hard work and effort for lemmy.
Hello! I joined today
let’s gooooooooo. May I ask what made you interested in creating an account here? I’m curious about the people’s motives.
Yahoooo! The more the merrier.
Welcome new users!
Thank you so much Lemmee Adkins!
Ayyy-Ohhh so did I Dude!
welcome!
Welcome on lemm.ee!
Welcome!
It’s all trash redditor implants who think they’re opinions are absolute and make the fediverse politically, individualized, and nonsensical garbage. First time I logged in and contributing to the fediverse in about a month, and of course, I see this that makes me immediately pissy.
Yes. More people that get offended at the words “rape” and “kill” are exactly what the fediverse need. This is total pandering for the sake of members and publicity. And no one needs to worry. I’m gradually working away from this platform because unfortuantely most people here just want to virtue signal or trauma dump to either make themselves feel better or feign ignorance that they’re talking to another person just so they can can feel better about their sorry lives by tearing down this person or group on the internet.
Heavy modlog: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=12782521
Oh no. Someone showing my opinions. I have been defeated! /s
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.
If you see any demand for new communities then start them. [email protected] can help.
Thanks!
It will come with time, if possible be the change you want to see. I’m trying to grow the South African sub.
It might take years but 🤷♂️
Welcome!
I’ve been wanting to get away from the primary social media platforms because reasons and I’m glad to have found lemm.ee just yesterday! I’m still looking for good alternatives for instagram and youtube but in fairness I haven’t done a lot of research yet. Happy to be apart of something new!
You should check pixelfed. There’s not much chance of a proper youtube alternative popping anytime soon.
Yes, and my pixelfed instance needs more love:
Youtubes a tough one. You kind of need lots of capital to keep the servers running if it becomes too popular
I have pixelfed, but is anyone using Peertube? I don’t see its impact (yet) to social network like PF.
no one is using PeerTube and i doubt anyone will start to.
I’m using it, started a project on there the other day that was initially going to be on YouTube but… screw them.
I can understand why it would be tricky for those relying on monetising content but there is always Patreon and Ghost will be on the Fediverse soon.
link to your channel? afaik lemmy can post comments on PT videos
Lemmy itself cannot, unless a lemmy group is mentioned in the video.
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll definitely have to check these out.
