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 new reddit expats!

  • Anony MooseEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I believe most of the 2million users are bots, since many instances didn’t have much bot protection for signups. This is why active user count is probably a much more reliable metric.