The user count at the moment of this post stands at 33279 and continues to grow!
To take the #1 spot from lemmy.ml (36185 users and no longer growing), lemmy.world just needs about 3000 new users. Given the current growth rate, it should be another day or two.
We’re building something here!
Users can view and post to content on communities across instances, as long as the instances federate with each other. That doesn’t solve the separate issue of the individual instances being able to handle heavy traffic loads though.