The active user base is trending slightly downward as a few instances have shut down recently but the amount of registered users is steadily increasing so those trends will reverse as the largest barrier to entry is just knowing about Lemmy and creating an account.

Users: 467k

MAU: 42k

Posts: 10.8m

All I know is that i can mindlessly scroll for about 2 hours before I start hitting the NSFW content, at which point refreshing the feed sifts the new stuff to the top and is still good for another hour or so

I run into a lot of the same names, but I think that’s fine (if not preferable)

There are dozens of us?

Anyone saying that it’s even a little bit close to an adequate level for anything other than politics and star trek are lying to themselves.