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      1 year ago

      i’ve really been enjoying it. feels like it has more users and content than lemmy right now, but elon had a head start on spez :)

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        1 year ago

        It’s hard to count and sources disagree slightly, but your intuition is right: Lemmy has some way to go before it reaches eight million users. Some people have multiple accounts and many are inactive, but it’s still a solid number.

        More than 400 000 Lemmy users is not shabby either though. Along with them comes 60 000 on kbin, which is where I’m tuning in from.