Since my last post yesterday, lemmy.world has added over 3000 new users, bringing the total user count to 22000 today (source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). It firmly holds the position of the second-largest lemmy instance, passing beehaw.org by a large margin of 10000 users.
In other news, beehaw has defederated from lemmy.world a few hours ago. How does the third-largest instance only have 4 mods admins for its 12000 users?!
So much going on!
It’s currently at 6k monthly active users, which is significant. However, it’s important to note that there are already 16k abandoned accounts.
One of those is mine, after finding out that LemmyNSFW can’t reach lemmy.ml, but FMHY can reach both. Probably not the only one.
I have an account on the exact same instances for the same reasons 😆 However, FMHY allows NSFW content, so it’s only a matter of time before Lemmy.ml blocks it.
Yeah, it’s sad. I guess it makes sense; just now I saw two posts from “lewd loli” from another instance in my “all” feed, and I imagine that’d be awkward if it happened to lemmy.ml. It does mean I’ll need a separate NSFW and SFW account, of which one will probably just be ignored completely. Or I could spin up my own instance, so small nobody will bother to block it.
How did you extrapolate 16000 abandoned accounts when lemmy.world was just created a couple weeks ago?
Here are some of the monthly active user statistics for various social media platforms, according to the search results:
- Facebook - 2.96 billion monthly active users (MAUs) [1]
- YouTube - 2.56 billion MAUs[2]
- WhatsApp - 2 billion MAUs[3]
- Instagram - 2 billion MAUs[3][4]
- WeChat - 1.26 billion MAUs[2]
- TikTok - 1 billion MAUs[2]
- Facebook Messenger - 988 million MAUs[2]
- Snapchat - 557 million MAUs[2]
- Pinterest - 444 million MAUs[2]
- Twitter - 368 million MAUs[5]
It’s worth noting that these numbers are subject to change and may vary depending on the source. Additionally, there are many other social media platforms with significant user bases that are not listed here. When choosing which social media platforms to use for your brand, it’s important to consider the relevance to your target audience and the quality of engagement on each platform, rather than just the number of users.
Citations:
[1] https://buffer.com/library/social-media-sites/
[2] https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-popular-social-media-platforms/
[3] https://datareportal.com/social-media-users
[4] https://statusbrew.com/insights/social-media-statistics/
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users
