Yes, it really does!
Since my post yesterday, lemmy.world has added about new 2600 users, bringing the user count to 28361 users. It’s the clear second-largest lemmy instance out there and quickly closing in on lemmy.ml’s 36k users (not taking new signups).
Interestingly, third-largest lemmy instance beehaw.org seems to have lost about 275 users since yesterday. Guessing some people were pissed off about its defederation enough to delete their beehaw accounts?
Where can I read this?
lemmy.world is operated by the folks from mastodon.world and they blog about their finances monthly: https://blog.mastodon.world/
That’s cool to see. I thought about doing something similar ships I try to spin up an instance.