this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

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Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That's a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

Welcome newcomers!

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[–] wintersummerland@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And yet fediverse observer is showing declining user count, while server count, comments and posts are growing steadily.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Why?

[–] TGhost@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Bot accounts, yes, but defederation shouldn't affect the total AFAIK.

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