• BadaBing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 years ago

    Super impressed with growth over the last week alone. I really was worried how I would adjust to not being on Reddit after Apollo died but I feel pretty encouraged now.

    • YangWenli@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I stuck with Reddit for a while because I didn’t like Lemmy on Desktop, but now I’m using Memmy so I have no excuse. I just wish the search function were a bit better.

    • Haha@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      Me too! Replacing Reddit for me is not so easy but I’m getting better at using Lemmy. Still browse “popular” on Reddit in an alt to compare a bit but so far so good

  • OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    2 years ago

    Holy smokes! Honestly I don’t know if we have or will make much of a dent in r*ddit, but at this point I don’t care. We’re building a new enthusiastic community and doing it fast. It’s a lot of fun.

    • DuncanTDP@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      Honestly this has been my mindset since I joined Lemmy. I deleted my reddit account of five years yesterday. I have no intentions of going back.

    • ewe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, completely killing Reddit was never in the cards in all honesty. Creating legit competition is good for everyone and this is definitely an awesome place already.

      • PreachHard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        2 years ago

        If I can speak for myself I literally switched over today cos boost stopped working only yesterday.

        • Cyyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Joey for Reddit still works, if it stops completly I’m gone too from reddit and only use lemmy on mobile. not gonna using reddits shitty garbage app.

            • Cyyy@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 years ago

              probably will die every minute now. it’s a mystery to me that it is still alive. either reddit has forgotten about it or dunno. some people speculate that the dev is maybe talking with reddit about a deal and that’s why it’s still alive. but who knows.

              • AveragePigeon@kbin.social
                2·
                2 years ago

                Could be, I remember he did a survey shortly before the blackout about what we thought he should do. Maybe enough people said he should try to work it out? But yeah, who knows for sure…

  • brb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    99·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been lurking, thanks to these users for providing content for me to enjoy while procrastinating.

    • violetta@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      As have I — this site has effectively wholly replaced reddit for me outside of search.

    • kobra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I tried to come up with a good “Bender’s blackjack and hookers” type TLD name for an instance but couldn’t come up with anything clever

  • ein@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Impressive stats all around. The way that reddit and reddit-likes work with feeds/frontpages you don’t need millions and millions of users for a place to feel active and worth visiting. Reddit was an interesting place all the way back in 2010 when I first started going there, and I imagine they had an order of magnitude less users back then in the pre-smartphone app era.

    With more users you get more of an eternal september effect… but you also get tons of people that might frictionlessly see and participate in more nische communities.

    • Anony Moose@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I think that a lot of the early migrants are tech savvy (not just chronically online), and have seen the dawn of multiple eternal Septembers. I think this is partly why everybody is doing their part to encourage conversation, because we all remember what a platform that has passed the critical mass looks like, vs one that has not.

      I hope that the leaders of the Fediverse listen to their users, and allow people who understand how to improve the user experience contribute without stubbornly sticking to their ideas of how things should be run, while at the same time preventing the 'verse from turning into another soulless vanity factory.

  • TrippyFocus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    35% in a week is pretty good. I feel like from here we’ll see steady growth and continue building and when Reddit inevitably kills oldreddit we’ll get a big influx and be ready for it.