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.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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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 π )
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.
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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.
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Just signed up today!
Welcome to Lemmy, or if it's your first time on the fediverse, welcome to the fediverse altogether!
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I'm a sponsor and I'm not saying this to get thanked or something, I just want to say that I kick in $2 a month. It's not a ton but if I can help keep this place running then I'm happy to toss a coin to my admin π
Thank you very much for the support!
Our infrastructure costs are currently quite stable at around 200β¬ per month, and considering that the instance is right now quite decently supporting nearly 6000 monthly active users, you could say that you are indeed relatively contributing a ton - you are effectively covering server costs for 60 people!
The fact that itβs a monthly amount is particularly great, because with recurring income, we will get advanced warning if there is danger of funds starting to run low.
Monthly amount is the way to go! I chip in a whole fiver over at feddit.org each month, because that's easily worth it. You get what you pay for, after all.
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Hello from Lemmy.ml! Great to see new people around here, maybe this is the wave we need to kick off the RuneScape community ;)
LEMMEE IN! (γγγΌγ)γ
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.
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Appreciate the transparency! Great to see and cements the wise choice I made to create an account outside of .world
Lemmee in π
I carry here as a year and a half (before I was in another instance that closed) and I can say that the increase in traffic, participation, comments, vows etc. For a couple of months it is remarkable.
I don't know if it's for Trump pushing Europeans and Candadia outside their products, for Reddit turning its platform into shit full of bots and unpopular standards or a combination of both, but I think that the network and community is doing really good (we even have a community of conservatives, half a year ago something like that would be unthinkable)
I would say getting banned for upvoting a couple of popular memes becoming the official site policy is definitely going to motivate tons of users to leave and I would also include myself in that group as well
I guess everyone has their own turning point, but Reddit seems to have a new controversy every two weeks, so I suppose things will just keep escalating here.
Personally, I jumped ship during the API controversy, not because it directly affected me, but because ever since I discovered federated networks with Mastodon, Iβve thought itβs the perfect idea (in fact, I had an account on the server that disappeared even before that). I have accounts on all the federated networks, even though I donβt use them much, and Iβd love to see them replace the traditional ones.
In any case, welcome
Hello from lemmy.dbzer0.com
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wonder what the new signup stats on my instance is...
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com What the stats be, captain?
Just joined a few hours ago! Still getting used to the format, but i'll learn! Very excited to see this place grow bigger!
Joined today. Is there hope that there will be an android app available soon, that allows phone access other than logging in through a browser?
Help yourself: https://www.lemmyapps.com/
Sync, Boost, Voyager, Summit and Thunder are usual recommendations
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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.
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Welcome everybody!
Hello there and thank you for having me! So this server in Finland is hopefully water and bear prove? Just kidding :). I am sending love from Austria
That's awesome! I don't know what sparked more people to come over though. Would be great if someone can fill me in since I'm so out of the loop.
Also, PSA to all new users on Desktop: Try Alexandrite - a gorgeous front-end for Lemmy https://alexandrite.app/lemm.ee/
There was a popular post on YSK on Reddit yesterday that sent me here, and at least one other commenter I've seen said the same thing.
Not sure about posting Reddit links here, but this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1j7g7ju/ysk_the_reddit_alternative_lemmy_has_gotten_much/
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My boost for reddit suddenly stopped working last week, so I figured I may as well see what all this is about. Happened to coincide with what seems to be an increase in reddit's content moderation where even peoples' votes are being policed.
Same here. Between blocking all API workarounds and threatening me with a ban for upvotes, it seemed like high time to run a deletion script on my 16-year account and pack it up.
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Why the sudden rise? Actually bonkers
Reddit started banning people for upvoting a certain way.
You are safe to express ur self in this here social media dear...
They hate the idea that internet loves Luigi haha
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boycott of American products and support for a European increased independence movement
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Hopefully Lemmy becomes bigger than Reddit. I was banned from Reddit for life and it's unfair because it's up to the whims of various moderators.
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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.
Congratulations - feddit.uk has also see an order of magnitude growth in sign-ups, just from a lower base. This is definitely Rexxit 2.0.
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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
Eternity for lemmy is a fork of infinity for reddit
I'm using voyager rn and I love it but thanks for the suggestion anyways
Lemmy loves Luigi!
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