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!
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 finally made an account after things got stable. A +1 for the active user count. I mainly lurk, but it’s actually compelling to engage here.
Glad to be here!
I know its only one data point, but I just logged on to see how many people were online in a sub i used to frequent and it was down 30-50%, the lowest numbers i’ve seen all year.
Holiday weekend too. Might be messy data points
I do site traffic for a living and it can be some of the lower weekends for non-commerce sites
After i read your comment, i thought “Nah, its a worldwide community” and when i checked back a few hours ago, its pretty much back to usual. Oh well.
I’m curious to check stuff like that, but I’m refusing. Just checking it counts as traffic, and I don’t want them to mistake my morbid curiosity for me still using it.
Well I’m new here so there’s one more data point. I figure if this thing doesn’t bug out, continues to function and servers can handle growth, it’s got no reason to shrink.
It’s me! I’m one of the new joiners! I’ve been enjoying the content and discussion here in the last day since I created my profile here. I have noticed a bit of lag and issues with things loading. I know there was a software update and obviously a sudden influx of new users. As frustrating as it was to have to move apps and communitie and despite the obvious growing pains, I have been happy to find a new community that is friendly and vibrant as this one!
As a new user from reddit, wanted to say thanks for welcoming us and working hard to accommodate us!
Lots of us new folks around! Also great there are so many apps being developed for Lemmy. Although the web UI is also pretty good.
I’ve seen so many helpful posts since joining yesterday, thank you to everyone for welcoming all of us, keeping servers running, posting helpful info on how to Lemmy, etc. - Happy to have a new home!
I’m here after ten years with Baconreader. Really sad it’s gone, but I’m super hopeful about my future here! If anyone knows of any communities that enjoy watches or fountain pens, let me know!
@BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world Enjoy :)
FYI, sub.rehab is great for finding if/where your favorite communities have migrated.
Edit: added watches community and formatting.
It’s so wonderful that Reddit, by making a decision that benefits no user/mod/sub, and actively harms users/mods/subs, all in the name of corporate greed, gave Lemmy the boost it needed to become a viable alternative to Reddit.
Thank you, Spez. We couldn’t have done this without you.
If Spez was secretly trying to sabotage Reddit and boost Lemmy, would he have even done anything differently?
Given Spez extreme incompetence, he probably would have introduced a great new app and removed all ads
Spez the hero of Lemmy
But fuck you, u/spez 😆
Praise /u/spez! /s
spez a real one fr
Hi, my name is power2bill. Feels odd to not have RIF on my phone. I’m going to lurk for awhile and make a comment every 2-3 months. Hopefully, new communities pop up that I used to go on from reddit. I’ll be here enjoying usefully, and sometimes not useful information. Cheers everyone! 🍻
I’m finding that quite a lot of communities exist, they just take more work at the moment. For me, I’ve found a uk community but cannot post due to signing up to .world. creating an extra account doesn’t send the verification email. I see all this of teething problems tho as was always the case with reddit.
I assume you’ve worked it out by now but you do not need a second account! Unless you want to move off .world to something smaller and less laggy ofc which I would definitely understand 😅
I think you might’ve run into another teething problem. This comment seems to be posted 8 times a few minutes apart.
Yeah, i notice that and tried to cleanup a bit. I think you’re correct tho, it was probably a teething issue
I’m finding that quite a lot of communities exist, they just take more work at the moment. For me, I’ve found a uk community but cannot post due to signing up to .world. creating an extra account doesn’t send the verification email. I see all this of teething problems tho as was always the case with reddit.
What was preventing you from posting there? It should work fine if you search for that community from your current instance (lemmy.world).
Not sure tbh, it works now. Maybe teething issues at the start or user error.
Welcome :D Bring on the new age of Fediverse lurking :D
I am a reddit refugee. I am so happy that lemmy exists. Thank you all for standing up these servers and giving us a place to scroll. ☺
Glad to be here and be a part of the community! It’s unfortunate Reddit is going the way of Digg, but definitely looking forward to watching Lemmy grow and develop.
Another one from the Digg to Reddit migration!
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I am currently writing some more instance stats graphs on lemmyverse: https://lemmyverse.net/instance/lemmy.world/user-growth
You can clearly see the growth! More to come :D
First comment on Lemmy. Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help us get started?
You can check out this guide for a good primer on the whole Lemmy/Fediverse thing
Why is it that Iemmy.world not opening? I’m trying to open it in my phone’s Brave browser
Given the… frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and…
I mean it’s getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve.
When I joined reddit more than a decade ago we also had frequent periods of instability, I think this was around the time digg users fled to reddit.
I am confident it’ll all be sorted out along the way.
You can avoid it completely right now by simply joining one of the less crowded instances instead.
