Lemmy.world topped 70,000 active users yesterday. It was a 40% growth in 12 hours, so pretty crazy. If you go there right now you can tell the servers are under heavy load.
I started playing in 2013 when it went open beta. I've had a couple breaks from it during the last 10 years and every time I come back its like a whole new game. At this point its like 10 different games wearing a trench coat lmao.