Okay, it’s actually 18955 at the time of this post. I’m looking at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and lemmy.world has already passed beehaw.org by a large margin for second place.
Can’t wait for this place to start filling out!
Does lemmy.world have any unfederated instances? I was preferring the freedom of chosing to block communities myself but I started running into some very toxic posts that make me feel like I took a wrong turn and I’m gonna get stabbed in a dark alley lol! I’d rather stick to the friendly, positive and useful posts. I would rather avoid that aspect of Reddit here.
See https://lemmy.world/instances. This information is public; there’s a link at the bottom of every page (at least on the desktop view).