Lemmy.world has grown by about 66.6% since reddit's API shutdown
Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.
Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.
So, welcome reddit expats!
Friendly reminder that lemmy is still being actively developed. There will be many performance improvements in the future, as well as UI and whatnot. Stick around, create content and engage with your communities.
Agreed! The only way to make sure that we can hit "critical mass" (the point in which content is relatively the same as on Reddit), is to continue what we did over there, and more. Most of us were lurkers on Reddit (me included). We now have to generate the content that most bots, mods, and superuser did for us. This allows us to get the links and content that we enjoyed reading and interacting with on Reddit.
That's impressive! It also definitely explains why lemmy.world has been slow to respond in my Lemmy app.
Can't recommend spinning up a second account on a smaller instance enough. It's made the experience so much faster than it was using my account on .world
Oh yeah I've done the same thing. My primary is on Lemmy.world I'm posting this from my secondary account, Sh.itjust.works is relatively fast for me and a lot less error prone I've noticed.
Which lemmy would you recommend? I chose world because I thought it's the international version since there's no lemmy specific for my country.
This, but also an instance with a good ping, close to your house.
Things are working so much better now that I switch. It was just a nightmare on world.
I was using Bacon Reader for Android for the last 10 years. For me it was the only way of using Reddit. I'm now checking Lemmy. I hope we can build a vibrant community here. I'm not coming back to Reddit.
RiF being killed was the last straw for me and Reddit.
They just don't care so long as they are making money. I was doxxed twice last year thanks to two different user on a fandom I moderated. They didn't care that I was openly DOXed, pretty much them saying that it wasn't their problem.
They just don't care about people, just how much trouble they will get in and how much money is to be made.
So this whole "only money matters" ideal is a symptom of a larger issue that is going to get worse.
Also a fellow ex-Bacon Reader user, same deal. So far I'm using Connect for Lemmy to try to get a similar feel, what app are you using?
Jerboa is the closest I have tried to the Bacon Reader experience.
Liftup, which is somewhat close to BaconReader too. Couldn't use Jerboa due to it not connecting to lemmy.world at the time I joined.
Tried wefwef too and it's great, but the iOS-adjacent UX is not right for me.
Same. Used AlienBlue for a short while until I got an Android phone. Then moved to Bacon Reader for the following decade.
Reddit is effectively dead to me. Without BR there is simply no way for me to interact with the site, plus I go out of my way to avoid reddit.com in search results.
Maybe it doesn't matter, but I like to think it does for their traffic statistics.
That's the app I used exclusively. Have you found a Lemmy app that is similar? I've tried Jerboa, Connect and Liftoff, but I'm still looking for something comparable to BaconReader.
if you are reading reddit only then I recommend to use libreddit.hu Doing this wouldn't give reddit their juicy traffic
Or even better: install the libredirect extension to do this automatically, not just for reddit.
Yeah trying to keep Reddit activity to a minimum myself. Not missing it tbh, other than troubleshooting posts through the years lol
If you have a problem post it to lemmy. We can try help.
So what’s happening over at Reddit? I assume all is still well over there. But after ten plus years, I actually haven’t been over there since Apollo died because I’ve just been busy and scrolling here before bed instead of the old Reddit browser.
I assume it’s business as usual and it didn’t implode, but honestly it’s been like three days since I’ve been there and that’s probably one of my longer streaks without casually browsing at some point in the day.
Yeah, basically nothing has changed. However, after switching to Lemmy I've noticed the quality of the content is higher
The bean posts are definitely more thoughtful here.
I use wefwef and for me the scrolling is similar to Apollo and scratches the itch. I am struggling, though, with subscribing to communities and curating my feed. But also remembering my Reddit feed took years to curate so trying to be patient. I just find more hoops to jump through here to get to the content I want to view (discounting the bugginess of things because I understand it’s new and they’re sorting it out still).
Bummer there wasn’t a bigger visible hit to Reddit for their shenanigans, but I am glad that more content creators have migrated and more interesting things are also appearing in the feed I have been working on here. It is very green and clunky, but also feels fresh!
I have just missed discourse with real humans.
I am one of those users.
Don't even feel the need to go back to reddit. This platform is going to take off.
Already has. A can of fucking beans had 5k+ upvotes.
6k now.
I feel it, can barely reply from all the errors being thrown.
Popular instances like lemmy.world have felt a lot of growing pains recently.
I've made a secondary account at sh.itjust.works for enhanced shit posting capabilities, since it seems to be more responsive at the moment.
I feel bad for the lemmy.world admins that have to keep up with the software needed and costs accrued to handle the world knocking on their doorstep. I hope advertisers hit them up soon so their bills become easier to pay. While advertising was annoying on reddit, I'm more than willing to put up with it on this instance of lemmy, the admins have earned it.
Try another instance, as close to your home as possible.
You can browse the map here https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map
I tried changing my profile picture on both desktop and mobile and keep getting thrown an error :/
Well at least it’s not something that super important
I can wait
I paused using lemmy.ml because 90% of the time it doesn’t work
Truly have no idea if this or other similar projects will succeed long-term, but I do think that any alternative puts much needed pressure on social media companies to stop sucking ass.
Here’s to hoping it keeps growing. Gonna need content other than beans though.
Every platform has their “bean” content. I spent enough time on Reddit to have dealt with the constant “the narwhal bacons at midnight” comments we used to deal with.
Oh I agree, it’s more that lemmy doesn’t really have “big engagement” content yet to spread out amongst the beans. Even text-based posts would do wonders. Mid-profile AMAs or a good asklemmy post going viral and hitting some of the content creators on other sites would really help boost this as a true alternative.
For my part I just hope my niche communities migrate over so the twelve of us that play ToME can geek out about the updates.
I'm about to unsub from lemmyshitposts for a good while. Still sticking around though, this place is home ✌️
I fuckin love this place
Nice growth, looks to be slowing down a little - I wonder how much is related to the poor performance last few days
It will just encourage others to find a home on other instances which is good for the fediverse ecosystem it’s not a bad thing :)
Right now it seems a lot of people sticking around know what they’re signing up for with things in development. I’m all for a robust community of open-source trailblazers who are happy to be here.
Also the bean memes are not helping 🤣
Not to get political but
B E A N S
With care and love we can build a new and better reddit
Reddit feels like a dinosaur now to me.
But dinosaurs are cool. Don't compare Reddit to a dinosaur.
Hell yeah, let's keep it up! :D
I actually don't on't mind the smaller user base on Lemmy at all.
First work day since shutdown, I survived without Reddit, I'm sure I can continue doing so. Lemmy has plenty of potential yet already "good enough" to take Reddit's place.
That's the funniest thing - I'm one of those senile Digg to Reddit people. Digg to Reddit was something I felt and dreaded. Reddit to Lemmy was a relief. There is not as much to click but everything is worth a click.
Beans
Hail Satan.
That’s great but 66.6%? Time to conspire!
Praise be to the dark lord!
It is important to distribute newly joining users evenly among different servers to enhance server performance and maintain decentralization
Seems like they aren’t handling the load well.
There's an inevitable adaptation and learning period for everyone, including smaller instances, but I think we should really be emphasizing the decentralization aspects of the Fediverse. Ruud and others are doing all they can to keep up, but everyone trying to consolidate onto lemmy.world isn't great for anyone and only leads to even greater cost and technical pressures.
Someone suggested that we should use this to find instances nearer to us. I did that and it has been running a lot smoother on my end apart from the occasional loading issues on subs in Lemmy.world.
There's definitely some getting used to for new immigrants like us from Reddit. The nature of Fediverse forces us to give up on the concept of "karma" and be ready to hop from one instance to another at any given time. The good thing is we'll be seeing much fewer karma-farming bots, which I assume would be an even much bigger issue on Reddit now that so many of the genuine users have left. Shitty mods, rampant bots, subs going dark/NSFW. What a shit show.
Any lemmy.world user who feels comfortable using the lemmy explorer to subscribe to communities via URL should heavily consider moving to a smaller instance and subscribing to everything they want. It'll be a much snappier experience, and will very slightly reduce lag for everyone else.
You can find instances by server location here (just change the software to Lemmy at the top), by user count here, or just look at the official instance list.
That's great news! Lemmy is a great, if but a little buggy, replacement for Reddit. I'm sure the bugs will be ironed out in due time. I'm enjoying the federated community. The more the merrier!
Indeed. It makes sense it was laggy during the upscaling, but it's stabilized now and it's great to see how well Lemmy has grown. The other thing I've notes is development is currently proceeding at a frenzied pace, it feels like every few days a new feature is added, either in the main service or in the multitude of apps being developed.
Congrats Lemmy.world!
I originally was using an account at .world but it started to get really slow under the stress of all the new users.
So I've since switched (to lemmy.ca) and it's been really nice. However, when I look at this thread from my .world account I can see a lot more comments. I know there are issues with syncing between instances and so I'd prefer to use .world if/when it is more stable. This way I can avoid the syncing issues mostly.
In any case I'm happy for Lemmy. I have multiple accounts and will use them whenever necessary. I wish there was something that could sync community lists between accounts. It was a bit of a chore to sync my community subscriptions for my accounts.
What happens if lemmy.world or any other instance goes down without notice? Then there'd be a void of communities for a while right, or do other instances keep backups of some sort? Thinking about this now that .world gets tons of attention.
That may be true but I am subscribed to many communities over many instances so I would just post and comment somewhere else. It's not hard to browse the all feed and see where the action currently is.
Spreading out like the fediverse is designed is good. Redundancy and crossposted content is good.
We're seeing the biggest instances struggle with the traffic lately, so I'm just engaging more with different communities whenever they're not accessible.
You should read up on the Federation concept. No, not the Star Trek one. And no, not the government one either.
66.6%? Looks like even satan has left reddit.
“Eternal torture and suffering is one thing, but I cannot tolerate greedy little pig boys.” - Satan
They need to slow the growth this place has become nearly unusable.
Registration should close on .world for a bit, like .ml did, so people can join other smaller instances and spread out. That's the point of decentralization anyways.
That sounds like a good idea.
The nice part about federated software is that there are other instances you can join :D
I just switched over to lemm.ee. Much better now.
The API hasn't shut down yet. I don't know wtf they are doing at reddit hq but many of the apps, and nsfw posts, still work completely normally with no changes.
Already planning their next disaster.
They're not shutting down the API. They're letting devs accrue usage and will send them a bill later
I thought they weren't going to shut down the API, they were going to start charging for it. So 3rd party apps that are still going will start getting bills?
They were also going to block all nsfw content but it's still there.
...And my axe
Maybe this explains why my Jerboa and Connect for Lemmy apps are sometimes showing network error and JSON pop ups.. but that's okay. Hopefully the situation will get better soon
Try registering on a smaller instance that's more responsive, with a better ping by being closer to your house.
I doubt it’s the performance and more the lack of content. Even copy-pastas would be good at this time.
The content here feels much better than other alternatives. Squabbles is stale by the end of the day (smaller userbase) and discuit is painfully quiet. It's not perfect, but the content here actually helps me to tolerate the server growing pains
Content is king imo. Let's do our part and keep Lemmy thriving.
Squabbles faces another huge uphill battle since it doesn't allow NSFW content.
Good for Lemmy.
Good for our friends on Kbin too! More content is good for everyone :)
Lemmy world domination continues - I've noticed in the last few days the world communities on each topic have all surged into first place in subscriber numbers.
Where can I find a lemmy community 'list like Reddit have please?
Have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world . Sort by top if needed and especially this post
Edit: and I also learned about !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca
I used to sub to new subreddit via such subreddits, or in comments of posts that showed me through a discussion. Or sidebar of subreddit on related ones.
I can't recommend lemmyverse enough, it has done a great job organizing every Lemmy community possible into one place.
Lfg!!!!! Proud to be apart of this new chapter
Came from Apollo, only been on Reddit once. That was enough for me..
if you liked apollo check out wefwef
I'm happy to be here. Thank you.
It's mad, even when it wouldn't load I felt no need to return to Deddit. Keep up the good work all.
There's likely more room for growth as several apps are still working as they move to the subscription model, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is another mini wave on the horizon!
14k users per week, 22k users per month, makes it look like a bunch of people tried it and then didn't come back.
I'm not sure how accurate that part of the stat page is, given we have very little usage data compiled into a short sample size, during a time of high growth.
Most people don't know that the lemmy.world instance was only started on June 1 or June 2 this year, and is only a little more than a month old. A month of crazy growth to become the most popular Lemmy instance that fast, with more growth likely to come.
They shut the API off on Thursday/Friday, and it's a four day holiday weekend. Not sure how final any numbers could be right now.
Some of them probably moved to a different instance, but yeah
Now hopefully the content appears, as well
My appreciation for Lemmy has increased 127% since I joined.
I used Redact to edit out all my Reddit posts and deleted my accounts when Apollo died. Bring on the distributed communities! (Also this is weird and new and I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing, but it's exciting!)
Number of the bean.
The impressive thing is the active user ratio of over 25%! Good job everyone.
Lemmy's gonna have some apps, but I can't wait until Kbin has an app too! Been really liking this so far.
That is Good.
It would be better if those users were more dispersed across more similarly moderated instances, but it is for sure a good thing that the threadiverse is expanding
I'm actually surprised its not more some instances grew by multiples right?
8k user instance owner requires 200$ per month to cover server cost. that should 2000$ per month for lemmy.world..and counting
So it is theoretically possible to keep the boat afloat with less than one dollar per user.
per month, yea i assume so
Do you know if costs scale linearly with user count?
It does not. It in large part scales with the amount of content the local and federated communities. So because many users will subscribe to many of the same communities, more users will add less extra cost aftter a point. This is a bit simplified though as it also scales with users but to a lesser degree from my understanding.
Disclaimer: I'm not hosting myself just to be clear but this is what I have gathered from answers to similar questions as well as my own experience as a software dev.
Wow I had no idea it was so high! I gotta get into the hosting business.
But lemmy.world shows me many errors if I open DevTools.. Hope this failures get resolved soon. Had to create another account on another instance to use lemmy
These are great news!
Glad to be here - and thank you to all of you who've been building this place so we had somewhere to go!
But lemmy.world shows me many errors if I open DevTools.. Hope this failures get resolved soon. Had to create another account on another instance to use lemmy
Anybody know how to reply to people rather then to the whole post? On memmy
@Enamel94 Swiping left on the comment will give you the option to reply directly to it.
Thank you, I’m getting old I think ahah
Swipe to the left on the post you want to reply to.