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.
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.
Useful resources
- If you're confused about anything, feel free to check out our F.A.Q.
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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!
Came here to support Canada and boycott all American products including tech/reddit. Elbows up!
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Just got permabanned sitewide from Reddit for saying βtrans women are womenβ and nothing more than that, so I figured Iβd check this place out.
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I am very glad to be here, the community is way nicer
Lemmee in π
Thank you lemm.ee admins and welcome new folks! Newcomers, you picked the best instance by the way.
Hello from lemmy.dbzer0.com
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wonder what the new signup stats on my instance is...
@[email protected] What the stats be, captain?
Hello everyone. Just joined and getting used to the layout, coming from Reddit not much else.
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Welcome, new neighbours!
While checking out this wacky new space, I'd like to emcourage everyone to check out the Local tab, either at the top of your feed, or in your app menu. That's where yoi'll find posts from "communitues" (Lemmy's "subreddits") that are hosted on lemm.ee!
A lot of communities are on different sites, and are ported (tarriff free!) for your enjoyment, but as with most things, it seems, the most sustainable way forward is to support Local!
One thing that many people new to Lemmy and the wider "fediverse" (because it's not just people on Lemmy-based websites that you'll find posting in the communities here, surprisingly enough) struggle with is that each website on the network has its own "name space", meaning that each community name can be used on each site. So, you can have, say, [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. People often fret over "having to follow all of them", and wanting ways to collapse them into a single forum. And for a really niche topic, that might make sense (the thing to do, though, is just pick the one that best serves you and don't worry about what's going on on the other side of the fence). But for bigger topics, this "splintering" is often a godsend, since we can all have real discussions about the topic in smaller spaces. And, of course, !politics is going to just be meanibgfully different on .ca vs .ee vs .world.
If you look to local first, it becomes much easier to stop worrying and love the ~~bomb~~ distributed network.
Respectfully I would disagree with part of your message. It sounds a bit like you're encouraging some degree of instance tribalism, but the whole beauty of Lemmy is that I can be a regular and full member of [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) with my @lemm.ee account.
For new members, I would have the opposite advice: don't pay too much attention to what instance a specific community is on. Just treat each community as its own entity and each person as an individual.
The reason I bring this up is that I think useless instance tribalism can be a real issue on Lemmy sometimes. I have seen statements too often along the lines of "oh you have an account on , so I will just ignore you".
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Hey, thanks a lot for taking care of the server and stuff : ) Looking forward to meet this nice community.
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Great post !
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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Hi dudies
Such a relief to scroll through posts without having to worry about what's advertisement, it has a much more genuine and human feeling.
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Just joined a few hours ago! Still getting used to the format, but i'll learn! Very excited to see this place grow bigger!
Yay! My first post π Thank you π
It is interesting to learn what drives behavioural change (individually and group wise). The 'I am really done with this π©' makes us move and look out for better alternatives.
hi! is there any "default" community or a place where every new user is automatically registered in? or a place where we can see some kind of graph for lemmy users signing up on a daily basis? would be nice for [email protected] datahoarding too haha.
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It's so cool being here. Actual people being people with a certain hint of joy because of being here.
This is encouraging. I wish i found out about Lemm.ee sooner. I had heard of it before but for some reason stayed on reddit that is until they IP banned me for a comment essentially saying βinternational law states occupied indigenous populations have a right to resist and fight occupation by any means necessary including organized violenceβ and now seeing how reddit is attacking people for supporting Luigi Mangione and calling for revolution against a decrepit disgusting fascist regime that obviously wont allow for any systemic change within its own mechanisms is beyond concerning. We need people still on reddit to spread the word and help those still trapped in that awful corporatist controlled community to break free and join lemm.ee
Nice to be here :D. Took a short while to understand the layout, im on Voyager. Unfortunately, i still think that the design needs to be even simpler to get really popular, like for example that the app asks for your interests and lets you start into these instances right away. But i think i will stay :)
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That is a wonderful chart.
Congratulations. Great to see growth :)