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 😅)
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.
- We have an instance policy for administration, moderation, and federation - feel free to check it out if you want to understand how admins and mods are expected to act on lemm.ee
- For staying up to date with instance news, feel free to subscribe to !meta@lemm.ee
- If you ever can’t reach lemm.ee, please check our status page at https://status.lemm.ee/ - I communicate updates on that page when dealing with any unplanned problems.
- You can always find these resources (and some more useful info) in the sidebar of our front page (https://lemm.ee/)!
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!
Such a relief to scroll through posts without having to worry about what’s advertisement, it has a much more genuine and human feeling.
It’s so cool being here. Actual people being people with a certain hint of joy because of being here.
I feel comfortable here. Thank you very much.
Heyo :D
There were just a cumulative collection of Subreddit mods that had banned me over the years.
I made a comment on a subreddit I was banned on and they decided to ban me for life.
Hello everyone I’m new here and start to understand how it works , but one question Is there a translator as in Reddit ? Thanks
Hello all! Does anybody know how old my account should be before I can make a post(not a comment). I was trying to upload a photo on the sourdough community(is it called a community?), and I‘ve got the message that my account is to new to post. It is 11 days old. I could not find in a quick search how old it should be. I‘ve asked AI and it said around 48h for some communities.
Note there is a 500kb upload limit for images on lemm.ee, it could be that.
Alternatively you could just drop the image you’re trying to use in https://imgur.com/ and use that.
Thanks. I tried with a resized one of 450kb, says the same thing. I will wait a while I suppose…
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 :)
Yea there’s lots of improvements that can be made, you can also try out other mobile apps like Sync and see if you like them more. When I was new I installed 4 of them and I actually use both Sync and Voyager now, sometimes switch between them just because.
Thank you lemm.ee admins and welcome new folks! Newcomers, you picked the best instance by the way.
Yay! My first post 😃 Thank you 🙏
It is interesting to learn what drives behavioural change (individually and group wise). The ‘I am really done with this 💩’ makes us move and look out for better alternatives.
Hello there!
Welcome! I’m pretty new as well, and came from Reddit when Spez first started to censor for Trump. I had a 13 year account. I deleted that shit, and do not regret it.
I had 5 different reddit accounts, deleted them all a week ago. Of course I forgot to have a look at the saved comments, but well… old news are old anyway. I’m just blown away by lemmy, so much better ux, sadly way less content. But those numbers indicate that this is about to change, too :-)
Yes, this platform is way better in every way. Do what I do and add as much good content as you can. It helps! Welcome :)
I deleted my (main) account, remembered my saved posts, but realised I would never do anything with it anyway.
I exported before the API cutoff, wrote a crawler in a drunken all-nighter to delete my posts and overwrite my comments, and have only lurked a small handful of specific subs since
Only recently got to using Lemmy at any scale though. It still isn’t quite the fix old reddit used to be, but seeing threads like this gives me a bit of hope that maybe the Internet is healing a bit
At some point I should finally get to deleting the various accounts…
You can thank Reddit for your new success, and I hope it continues. I was a 12 year member, with nearly a million Karma, and i was perma-banned for an opinion that I had stated numerous times with no problem. After the election, the same opinion got me permanently banned.
That was their excuse anyway. In reality, Im sure it was 12 years of resistance posts against the rising treason, corruption, and oppression of the Republican/MAGA/Nazi party. Now they are deleting any mention of Luigi, even in legit Mario Bros/Videogame discussions, and banning people just for upvoting. They are kicking out old, loyal, active members, just for using Reddit for what it was supposed to be used for. Kind of like what the FBI is doing to their agents who investigated HitlerPig’s corruption and treason. Its the MAGA way, and Reddit is on board.
I wondered why Reddit would have so obviously made the choice to voluntarily join the Conservative Propaganda Machine, then I saw that Ohanion wants to buy TikTok. So does Zuckerfuck, and probably a lot more (Bezos? Musk?). They all know that it will be HitlerPig who will choose, and he will choose the guy who smooched his ass the most, and paid the biggest bribe. So turning Reddit into a MAGA propaganda mouthpiece was Ohanion’s show of good faith.
I hope Reddit goes the way of Digg, and Lemmy takes over. The decentralization seems like a massive improvement over Reddit.
My answer recently with the announcements regarding penalizing users who upvote controversial posts has just been to save interesting stuff, comment rarely and post never. Hopefully lemmy can be a new home
I am very glad to be here, the community is way nicer
Welcome new users!
