Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That’s a 40% growth in about 12 hours!
Welcome new reddit expats!
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We definitely felt the ship groaning through all this. Thankfully the Ruud-er skillfully navigated through this, and the software update on top.
Anyways, welcome to Lemmy 17!
I’m so glad the auto refresh bug on the main page is finally gone after the software update.
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0.18.1, guy
I’m not your guy, pal.
Ahh, look at that reply string we started. It’s feeling like home around here already.
And my axe!
Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
I am one of those people who migrated as I grew up with an internet that was full of small communities and interesting content uncontrolled by greedy corporations. When I found Reddit back in 2012, I thought it was amazing and going to be a bastion of information for a modern internet. Well, now we know that wasn’t the case thanks to chasing the almighty dollar. Hopefully this is the point in time where we can steer this ship around and bring the control back to the users.
I share your opinion. I’m optimistic about the migrations away from twitter, reddit, and facebook. This is a great opportunity for the improvement and democratization of social networks. The more that people move to open source platforms and the more that people demand control of their data, the better!
Glad to be here!
Immigrant from Reddit is Fun here.
I found the comment that mentioned Summit is quite close to RIF helpful, so here I am!
Summit is not even close to RIF. I am waiting for Boost.
I’m a RIF widower… I’m finding Liftoff to be a great mobile app. It doesn’t seem to get much love but it’s stable, easy to use and actively developed. I’m feeling right at home with it 🙂
This is beautiful to see - I understand Reddit is a company that needs to make a profit, but the way they have treated their users and unpaid staff is shocking (but not unexpected). The fact it also heavily impacts users with additional accessibility requirements is terrible.
Will be fun in a way to watch Reddit try to claw back what has happened.
Give it 12 months it will likely be a wreck along with the current CEO who will probably be given the boot.
I’m old enough to have seen many services go through this: AOL, MSN, MySpace, Fark, Slashdot, Digg, Something Awful, etc. Reddit (and maybe Twitter) are just next in line to realise they are not too big to fail. Hopefully followed by Meta.
I know Slashdot’s time has passed but didn’t know there was drama involved.
Was there any Digg v4 like event that led to its fall?It’s quite a way back now, so my memory is a bit fuzzy! I think there were redesigns and the site was sold to a company who mismanaged a few elements. I seem to remember a lot of noise on the site at the time, people complaining etc and then a large number moved away. I’m sure someone can fill in the details in a more reliable way haha.
I remember Digg used to be great too - between that and Stumble Upon you could find so much awesome stuff!
I suspect Reddit will die a much slower death, as it is just so big and widely used and the exodus of users doesn’t feel as huge. It will be interesting to see how everything unfolds.
If I recall correctly, Digg made some weirdo policy about officially recognized channels had priority over community posts?
Claiming they were trying to improve the quality and trustworthiness of their content.
They also made a redesign, so frontpage became 90% pictures, more suitable for people with zero attention span.
As I recall it, Digg “died” super fast after that. Of course technically Digg still exist, but it’s nothing compared to when at its height, it became an internet buzzword much like “to Google it” still is to day.
Yes! Digg was pretty dramatic in how it fell from grace I think, whereas some other platforms have limped along slowly for quite a while after their prime, a bit like me.
Yes the problem was that they changed the concept entirely, and the change was to a concept that simply didn’t work. The idea of “approved” content, was so lame everybody left.
Personally I had already left for reddit at that time, but the original idea with Digg was pretty cute though, they had a little icon of a spade, and you could digg up or down. Same as up/down vote on reddit.
Somehow reddit was just better, with it’s way more text based design, maybe because it looked a bit like a colorcoding editor for programmers. for whatever reason reddit quickly had way better content than Digg, despite Digg was more famous and had a clear head start.
woah
Good to see Lemmy grow, but I hope that the decentralization will work out so that the large influx of new users will spread out as evenly as possible. General purpose instances help balancing the load, and last time I checked join-lemmy.org there have been several general purpose instances, which seems promising.
So glad to see Lemmy get big
Incredible feeling 💯❤️❤️❤️
I joined Reddit when Digg made some drastic mistakes. Not sure Lemmy will be the answer, here I am regardless.
I’m also a former Snoo
I hope I am not missing anything if I joined using lemmy.ml.
The large instances usually subscribe to most of the others but not every instance is equal. You should go to other instances (you don’t have to join) and check their “all” feeds. You’ll definitely see differences.
How do I blacklist a whole instance from my view?
May I ask why would you?
There are just certain instances that I wouldn’t want to see, like foreign language ones?
New to the fediverse, so perhaps I’m not thinking about this correctly, but if could blacklist a whole instance, rather than certain magazines/subs/whatever they are called, it would be easier than playing a game of wack-a-mole.
No, federation means we all see the same content regardless of which site we sign up on with the exception of sites that yours may block.
But be wary that lemmy.ml is a tankie instance and the “.ml” stands for Marxism-Leninism. I generally avoid lemmy.ml communities so I don’t get banned for saying “the uyghur genocide is a real thing” or anything.
What app are you guys using for Lemmy now ? I’m on Jerboa . I find it laggy while scrolling. What’s a better alternative?
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Whoooo!! Here we go. New era of internet. Twitter is dying, reddit is dying, I can’t wait to see the decentralized web come to life.
You can definitely feel it.
Scotty, divert power to stabilizers.
Are you watching Strange New Worlds?
As a diehard Trekkie since 1987, I can say it’s already one of my top 3 shows
Not OP but you just convinced me to give Strange New Worlds a try, so thanks!
Same, it’s downloading now haha.
What do you think so far? I’ve been loving Strange New Worlds!
Hooray! Let me know what you think
Came back to this thread to say I LOVE Strange New Worlds so far! I liked Picard well enough, but just couldn’t get into Discovery after a couple tries, though I can’t articulate why (???). SNW seems to hit just right.
