this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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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.

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[–] CaptManiac@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm looking at the Lemmy instances webpage https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Why are so many instances closed for sign-ups? Doesn't seem like a good thing for the potential July 1st deluge of new users.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Server costs and some instances (like beehaw.org) are particular about who they let in. That's why I just refer people to lemmy.world since it's the easiest instance to sign up with a lot of local content already.

[–] dasprii@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Why are so many instances closed for sign-ups?

Probably to keep the instances from melting with the influx of new users if I had to guess