Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That’s a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

Welcome newcomers!

      • krigo666@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        They are federated instances. Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, which means distributed servers running the same service (or services) and registering in one instance gives you access to information on the other servers running Lemmy. You can have different communities (‘subreddits’) in different servers but they are all accessible and joinable. This way is not a centralised system.

        The Fediverse is not just Lemmy, can be other services like Mastodon, etc.

        • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          And the servers all* communicate with each other, so you can see content from one server while logged into another (the URL format would just be slightly different.)

          * Well, except for the cases where a server admin decides to defederate from another server for one reason or another.