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. There are currently almost 200k total users spread across the top 10 non-bot lemmy instances.
We’re really building something here!
EDIT: Looking for a lemmy app? Here’s a whole list: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
I’m in the same boat, but coming from RIF. Tried to use Mastodon before but wasn’t huge on the interface. I’m pleasantly surprised so far, I’m using Connect for Lemmy with reverse list view and it’s …not terribly dissimilar.
That said, it’s obviously still new, and slow. I’m going to see where this goes.