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!
Hello from lemmy.dbzer0.com
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wonder what the new signup stats on my instance is…
@[email protected] What the stats be, captain?
Thank you so much for creating this instance. I appreciate all your work.
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
Lemmy.world is bigger but they also have a bit of a reputation. Nothing wrong with that instance, but they’re often disliked by other instances for the same reasons why people from other websites don’t like redditors. Lemm.ee doesn’t have that same stigma from what I’ve seen.
[email protected] has quite a few reports for LW mods
I use to dislike lemmy.world, because I kept seeing divisive posts from them trying to stir up hate against other instances. I find that kind of unprovoked unnecessary shit-stirring to be ugly.
But then I realised that these negative posts were always coming from the same couple of users, every time. So it wasn’t because lemmy.world had that attitude, but rather there were a couple of zealots who happen to be on that instance.
And I think of that whenever someone says bad stuff about other instances; because it’s probably a similar situation - just a couple of people giving the instance a bad rep.
I just love when reddit makes crappy decisions, haha.
Welcome to Lemmy, hope you enjoy!
Welcome!!!
Have fun :D
I’m 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.
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
breaking away from U.S. services
See also:
First time I’m seeing baraza.africa. Neat!
Happy to be here, happier to see it grow!
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.
I had 5 different reddit accounts, deleted them all a week ago. Of course I forgot to have a look at the saved comments, but well… old news are old anyway. I’m just blown away by lemmy, so much better ux, sadly way less content. But those numbers indicate that this is about to change, too :-)
I deleted my (main) account, remembered my saved posts, but realised I would never do anything with it anyway.
I exported before the API cutoff, wrote a crawler in a drunken all-nighter to delete my posts and overwrite my comments, and have only lurked a small handful of specific subs since
Only recently got to using Lemmy at any scale though. It still isn’t quite the fix old reddit used to be, but seeing threads like this gives me a bit of hope that maybe the Internet is healing a bit
At some point I should finally get to deleting the various accounts…
Yes, this platform is way better in every way. Do what I do and add as much good content as you can. It helps! Welcome :)
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, Lemmy It also has a 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"
Yea unfortunately a clean easy url matters
A good URL is extremely important for growth. But I wouldn’t say unfortunately, as I don’t think sh.itjust.works users have any desire to become a very large server. We seem to thrive as a smaller, more tight-knit community.
That’s the beauty of the fediverse, whether you’re on the largest or the smallest server, you are basically accessing the same content. The rapid growth of lemm.ee benefits all of us.
For me it was one of the main motivations to join sh.itjust.works
Name checks out
Yes, it usually works both ways, people like it or hate it
Like Marmite.
Yeah, it literally reads “shit just works”. Who doesn’t want their shit to just work? I know I do.
I want my shit to go down the toilet, actually…
Hello! I joined today
welcome!
Ayyy-Ohhh so did I Dude!
Welcome on lemm.ee!
Welcome!
Yahoooo! The more the merrier.
Welcome new users!
Thank you so much Lemmee Adkins!
let’s gooooooooo. May I ask what made you interested in creating an account here? I’m curious about the people’s motives.
Hey friend!
I gotta say. Lemmy is really coming along. I’ve been here since the whole 3rd party API stuff and tired of seeing the same crappy content here. I know there’s the whole, “be what you want to see” theory but the truth is I have never really posted new content on Reddit either. I’ve always been a lurker and commenter.
Anyway I just wanted to say that content seems to be a lot better recently.
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Try sorting by “hot” instead of “active”. It unearths a lot of fresh content
And when that doesn’t work try “scaled”
The scaled sort is amazing.
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
You can block instances in your account settings. I suggest to do so if you find their comments unsettling
Additional resources:
Thanks so much!
iirc, that doesn’t block comments, only mutes communities.
libs gonna lib
Not sure if intentional, but I read your username in the voice of RZA
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.
Right? That was my first experience too, the interactions and community on here feels great
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 dudies
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.
Such a relief to scroll through posts without having to worry about what’s advertisement, it has a much more genuine and human feeling.
No ads, but I’m afraid we do have a lot of propaganda over here ;-)
But, if you don’t block them, we have opposing propaganda too so you can stay confused ;p
