From 2,997 active users across all lemmy instances at the beginning of June, the number increased to 52,797 by June 30th. Source.

An active user on Lemmy is "someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame.” Source. That means lurkers are not counted as active users.

We’re really building something here!

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    I can’t wait for this place to blow up. Definitely missing some of my niche subs but hopefully they will appear at some point!!

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      I can’t wait for this place to blow up

      Not literally though. But I have to say it’s giving me nostalgic feeling of old reddit when it would struggle to keep up with inflight of new users/activities.

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        The community here feels significantly more wholesome than Reddit in recent months. It’s nice seeing a lot of meaningful conversation without hate and spam.

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          I don’t want to sound like a cynic but so was reddit in its early years. We were all rallying for a cause on the great digg migration. It felt great to be part of that movement (or whatever you want to call that). I do hope Lemmy keeps this spirit up for as long as it can.

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        The community here feels significantly more wholesome than Reddit in recent months. It’s nice seeing a lot of meaningful conversation without hate and spam.

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      1 year ago

      Any examples? Why not start them yourself… Im sure others are thinking the same thing and searching for them. Especially now

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        The thing that would come to my mind would be game specific communities, like one for stellaris, another for the last of us, etc.

        If I wouldn’t mind the work of moderating, I’d probably create one :)

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          I think you just go to the top of the page and click “Create Community.”

          Im brand new here as well, but my guess would be to start posting stuff about whatever your topic is, links etc so people who run across it have something to participate in. I imagine its kind of a labor of love in the beginning but if its not super niche I’m sure you’d show up on searches.

          What are you looking to make? It may already exist on another instance and you can just sub there if it already has users.

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      I’m a little hesitant for big growth, came with the first wave of Redditors back when the news was fresh, but I’m trying to be optimistic. More people means more content, after all.

      I also miss the niche subs, and ngl also my snoovatar, he was a nice little guy.

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        The snoovatars were absent on Apollo so I don’t miss them as much but damn do I miss the content centric design - the stock app doesn’t show flairs or u names in the default view, which sucks.

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      working on bringing mine over. hopefully nosleep comes with - they’ve been on the fence