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!

      • 9715698@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I could imagine that being a bigger knife in the back than killing 3rd party apps.

      • _xDEADBEEFEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I kind of hope they do. Then I can see all the shitposting on r/ncd again.

      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Killing old.reddit will be big too

        And probably coming relatively soon as it’s much easier to scrape

    • Xilly@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t believe so but I do think they will see continual decline after this. I’m envisioning more of a repeat of MySpace where everyone just loses interest.