EDIT: we just crossed 30K 🥳

We are now at 28.5K users (see https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). The top 10 instances also got a decent boost in user count. With the exception of beehaw.org which defederated, the Fediverse is thriving 🔥

  • Thepinyaroma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Funny thing for me, is that Beehaw was the first bit of the Fediverse I ever came across. Tried to sign up, twice, didn’t work. So that’s how I ended up on .world, the first group I found that didn’t want an essay to sign up.

        • Kichae@kbin.social
          0·
          2 years ago

          Yeah. People struggle with the idea of “independent websites” when you can view posts from them on other websites.

          And when there isn’t a hedge fund backing them.

          • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
            04·
            2 years ago

            Are you originally from beehaw? I’ve seen you defending them many times and I almost always agree with your points. Keep up the good work 🫡

            • Kichae@kbin.social
              1·
              2 years ago

              Nope. I’ve never actually directly been to the site.

              I just stumbled into Mastodon last April to watch people flee Twitter, and fell in love with the whole distributed social concept.

              The Internet was a digital anarchist space when I first encountered it in the 90s, and that’s what I want it to be again. And the right to disengage is tied up in that.

              • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
                11·
                2 years ago

                Cool. You’re a valuable contributor and I hope you stick around. I was also hoping for an opportunity to apologize to beehaw on behalf of my server 🤷