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.

    • eric5949@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      2 years ago

      I was on beehaw until they defederated, just seemed like the wrong answer to me and one that will just end up being damaging to Lemmy, especially the way they went about it.

        • 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
            03·
            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 🤷

        • eric5949@lemmy.world
          01·
          2 years ago

          Well if I didn’t understand that I’d not be on this instance now. I just didn’t like how they did it with 0 warning when those instances were increasingly a big part of my Lemmy experience, and they could have just asked for people to volunteer as mods. Regardless of how I feel about it, the reason it’s damaging is because of how people who don’t understand it will view it.