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!
Is there any place for seeing instances defederations?
When people start getting banned for anti-billionaire statements you’re bound to have an exodus of people who were there for this message being spread in the first place. I just hope this place does a better job dealing with bots.
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’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
Great post !
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
Yes, it usually works both ways, people like it or hate it
For how long I have to wait until I can upload images for a community after my registration? Thx
That’s why I couldn’t upload images, the UI on mobile never gave me an error explaining this, it would be good to better make users aware of this.
It’s written in sidebar of Instance.
Fair but when you’re using mobile apps like Voyager or Sync you just get a error and don’t understand why
Also there’s a limit of 500kb. So, I just used my own Image Hoster.
4 weeks. In mean time you can use catbox.moe or Imgur. Or any other Image Hoster.
Catbox doesn’t work for some users
Signed up last night. With the oversight dumpsterfire that reddit has become, I really hope Lemmy continues to grow at a good clip.
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
same, checked that post, came here. Also planning to selfhost a lemmy instance for my country (none from here till now)
Lemm-ee is a cool brand too. Good job, Estonia!
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!
I have pixelfed, but is anyone using Peertube? I don’t see its impact (yet) to social network like PF.
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
Sort of:
Channels on PeerTube are the same thing as communities on Lemmy. Older content won’t show up, but as long as someone on your server is subscribed, new ones should come over.
Lemmy itself cannot, unless a lemmy group is mentioned in the video.
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 joined yesterday here too! I already hated reddit for the API thing (even though I use infinity) and for the enshittification that was happening, but censoring Luigi was way too much. Happy that I’m not the only one making the switch
Lemmy loves Luigi!
Hello! I joined today
welcome!
let’s gooooooooo. May I ask what made you interested in creating an account here? I’m curious about the people’s motives.
Ayyy-Ohhh so did I Dude!
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.
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 🤷♂️
hi! glad to be a part here!
Hello! Just joined as well :)
