There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

Hopefully even more people will join as Reddit gets shittier and shittier.
- got permaban on 5+accts because reddit did what similar pornhub did, sanatize the site and only corporate content was left. it was getting increasingly hard to comment as anything other than right wing comments.
  
  That's what I think happened to me, seems weird that so many of us are getting banned at the same time. It's different for me though, I get banned or downvoted to oblivion if I express any right wing ideas. It's 98% leftist there now it seems. Wouldn't surprise me if they ban r/conservative entirely this year.

What happened around February 12?
- Maybe defederation or privatization

Lets just have each of us 50k post about Lemmy over on Reddit.
- Can't. Banned for a 3-month old post supporting Luigi.
  
  they went after your acct of 3month old post? im not surprised i find if i dont delete some comments some user was going into Old POSTS AND reporting it.
  
  Clearly the inferior Mario brother.
- I got one person to try it! In eattherich. I thought about deleting my 15yr account but that is a much better use of it
  
  I should have used a code to change all my posts/comments to an advertisement for Lemmy. What are the going to do, ban me??

This is my first time here. I do not abide thought policing. Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez.
- its thier OVERPOLICING that was the problem, it wouldve been fine if all they did was ban actual BOTS, you know the propaganda ones, but nope they went after everyone more aggresively than they did the above mentioned bots.

Always happy to see the Fediverse getting more popular! 😃

Shaddow Banned from Reddit for making some Luigi Mangione prayer candles got thousands of likes and bam old high karma account banned forever. No response from Reddit. Noticed on the shadow ban page that tons of people getting these bans everyday and no response from Reddit . Suggested we protest at Reddit headquarters in SF and now I’m banned from Shadow page ban lol. Nice to be here though
- reddit has been going hard in being anti-luigi site recently. the 3 main subs are know that is controlled actively by admin is the shadowban, reddithelp, help, and by extension modhelp.

Been checking and commenting on Lemmy everyday since I made my account. Its my new first opened app of the day now
- and its so much better than trying to do that on reddit witha new account, they make it very hard engage with a brand new acct.

Let's nooooooootttt!

One of us one of us!

What happened 2/12?
- Hexbear lost its domain and went offline
- Hey everybody! This guy doesn't know about 2/12! Let's all laugh at him! Ha ha ha ha ha!
  .........I have no idea. Does ANYONE know what happened?
  
  hexbear lost its domain and went offline
- Lemmy was for while like 50% bots, which is why you see random shifts generally.
  Could be something else though
- Probably a bot instance being removed
- It was President's Day in the US, but I don't know why that would impact Lemmy.
  
  US workers had the day off to do other stuff than scroll Lemmy at work

Obligatory hiiii

I didn't realize that was only 50 thousand users. Muddy have been only 5000 in 2023 during the API Exodus.
- Literally seems like 1/4 the comments of Reddit, 1/1000 the userbase. I think between API lockdown and "violence" banning, the entire commenting community of Reddit came here lol.
  
  when they allow so much astroturfing from the right, and anything remotely try to use a neutral word to describe a controversial ones, eg demographic instead of the POC actual race, will get you banned.
- 50 thousand users
  Active users, so vote, post or comment. Lurkers aren't counted.
  
  Yeah but fucking still. I never would've imagined i was surrounded by more peers at any given Bills game than there were people accross the whole world contributing to Lemmy on avg. That's sooooo fucking wild.
  It's also so crazy how in a stadium of 70,000 people from US and Canada I will see someone i know every piss or beer break. Whereas Lemmy is half that amd I am 100% positive I've never interacted or saw a comment/post on Lemmy from anyone I know. It's just crazy to see the perspective of seeing the odds of being 1 out of 70,000 vs being 40,000 out of 6 or 7 billion. Obviously I'm intentionally ignoring all the variables at play for the real reason I know people at bills games vs lemmy but it's still the quntificatikn that I found amazin.

Left Reddit as soon as Boost stopped working
- Same. My boost app finally stopped working so I had to switch over. Seems basically the same here just less comments
  
  omg samee 😭
  I replaced boost for reddit with boost for lemmy
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  I signed up for hexbear out of morbid curiosity, that place feels like an insane asylum.
- Boost can still work, though - ReVanced is a great project
  
  Let's just leave it 😅 I'm happy pretending Boost doesn't work so that I have no reason to go back to Reddit.

I'm the "9" of the 90-9-1 rule (aka: mostly comments)
hope that counts 👀
- Who has time to put in the effort to post posts?
  
  I went through a phase where I would find good posts on reddit and then just copy the link and post here.. but as of now, reddit is like 95% anti-Trump posts so it's all noise. Lemmy is fairly noisy with that lately too but not as bad. I need to figure out a better way to filter out politics because it's ruining online discussion even in non-political threads, somehow it devolves into "orange man bad" somehow at some point and it's just tiresome going over the same topic over and over with the same talking points. Musk nazi, orange man bad.. when you see it 50000000000 times it just gets old after a while, with RES I am able to filter out subs which helps immensely but I don't think that's possible here. But like r/pics, r/interestingasfuck, r/lotr, r/lego, r/technology, r/news, many many others.. 90% political now, so the majority of the site is useless to me now. And it feels like it's majority bots now, probably LLM-generated discussion through an API, dead internet theory is in full speed ahead mode.
  
  Effort? Nah the typical post is as effortless as a comment
  
  Thankfully, Stamets@lemmy.world and The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world

I can't remember one instance of a company being bought out and then made better by investors. That's why I came here. I just don't like people like that. I hate how everything is about money.
- Yeah, it's textbook enshittification.

I was fed up with reddit and looking to make a change that won't put money in spez's pocket, arrived a few days ago.
- I just arrived today myself, after being temp-banned for 7 days for some bullshit reasons that the appeal team agreed were bullshit so they unbanned me, but not before someone else perma-banned me for violating the rules on 'my other accounts' -- I've had a single reddit account for the entire 14 years I've been there, I don't even make throwaways, so, even more bullshit. I appealed that one too, but even if it's overturned I'm not sure I'm going back. They've gotten real fucking fashy all of a sudden with the censorship, banning people for upvoting shit and calling it 'inciting violence.' Fuck 'em.
  
  i heard about that situation, some people were getting temp banned, and then when the ban was lifted, they were permabanned. I think some mods mentioned reddit, or the sub does not reset thier filters once the bans was lifted so the filters automatically assume you are EVADING A ban.
- This was me during the APIcalypse. Since joining Lemmy, I have:
  Realized I'm trans
  Procured a Steam Deck
  Started pirating again
  Been on HRT for over a year and counting
  Developed a chronic dependency on Yuri manga
  Lost 50-60 lbs
  I hope you have a good time here as well!
  
  Sounds like some very positive changes in your life. Glad to hear that you've been improving yourself.
  My wife and I recently had to make a difficult but necessary change in our own lives, fleeing from the US to live in France while we wait to see what shakes out of the chaotic situation there over the course of the next year. Been starting in on the language learning, but it's been slow going.
- I also broke free from Reddit. Hopefully in lemmy we are not limited to only post things that agree with moderators point of view.
  
  For sure. There can also be a problem of too little moderation, though. There is a balance to be struck between censorship of opposing views and getting rid of off-topic spam.
  For instance, there were a few regional subreddits that were obviously intended to be for thing like "Which restaurants are worth a 30 minute drive to go to" and "Come to my band's concert at the waterfront this weekend", but had turned into basically nothing but off-topic spam wars about national level political topics.
  The mods refused to do anything about it, so I just left because 90+% of the content was stuff I didn't come to that subreddit to read. Keep that shit on r/politics.
- Welcome!
  
  Thanks, glad to be here. This place seems way more welcoming than I remember reddit ever being. But I was a little late to the party on Reddit, I joined in 2016.

THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!
But seriously this is good news and I'm glad to have you all here. Lemmy is in a pretty good position right now in terms of having a critical mass of users and decent traction within popular communities. At the very least it feels self-sustaining here.

It was a "alternatives to American apps/sites" on Reddit that got me here
- Just got so sick of reddits smarminess. It’s also just astroturfed corporate BS at this point anyway.
  I’ve been boycotting Amazon for over a year (and quite frankly won’t ever stop), won’t shop at Target and won’t visit super corporatized social media.
  Reddit has proven time and time again they’re just a whipping boy for corporate interests.
  
  Are you me from the future? This is literally my mindset right now. Just started boycotting Amazon, Target, etc.
  
  Yeah I knew it was bad but this last round of suppression was the final straw.
- Don't worry about the other posters trying to dissuade you from lemmy.ml. It's a very chill instance. It gets flack because it is run by and has a majority leftist base, but that shouldn't be an issue if you consider yourself a progressive. The "tankie" slurs are frankly b.s. and disingenuous. I wouldn't call the sub "pro-Russia/China" by any means, the users are anti-imperialist and realistic in the nature of US propaganda depicting other states as bogeymen. Just because you question the mainstream US-centric narrative doesn't mean you're shilling for China/Russia etc. There's a lot of liberals and centrists, that despite their progressive sentiments they may hold, are still very beholden to the narrative of American exceptionalism in a lot of ways.
  
  Guessing it's coming from shitjustworks people. Politics mod over there doesn't like anyone pointing out the Dems weak ass "resistance" even if you are lauding another Dem(Rep Green) at the same time lol.
- just a heads up, the instance you're on is pretty controversial.
  
  I thought the whole point of Lemmy was that it didn't matter what instance you joined. Can I move my account, or do I need to make a new one on a new instance?
  
  very good way to put it
  
  Controversial? How come? I’m new to the Fediverse so I’d love to learn as much as I can. 🙂
  
  Is lemm.ee chill or should I be making a new account?
  
  Why?

Speaking of users, whatever happened to Flyingsquid?
- Idk I was just thinking that last night, hasn't been active in like 2 weeks. I hope they're ok
  
  He got out of the US recently-- I'm sure there'll be periods in setting up in a new country where he's too busy to be on lemmy

What's an "active user"? Can I just up vote things I like, do I need to leave comments like this, or must I get involved in senseless flame-wars?
- AFAIK, voting counts as active.
  
  For this reason if I go on Reddit for a niche item that's not here yet, I only lurk, no voting, commenting, nada.
  Thankfully, I'm having to do that less and less.

I’ve had enough of reddit
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .ee account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  I'm new myself, thanks for the recommendations. While you're at it, do you happen to know of any good political/religion debate .. subs? what are they called here? I'm going to call them subs for now. Maybe some Anarchist and non-tankie Communist subs?
  
  hey cm0002 why are you on lemmy.cafe now?

Greetings everyone

I created an account a while back now, but it’s been mostly inactive since then. I’m liking it a lot more here!
- Yeah, what the other guy said. lemmy.ml is run by tankies. best to move
  i moved from .ml about a year ago because of their moderation... "policies"
  
  Oh shit, I had no idea! Any ideas where I should move to? What kind of policies??
- Welcome back! Just...be careful about what you say on the instance you're on LMAO
  
  Never heard anything about this, are you able to elaborate or provide any links?

Subjectively, Lemmy's communities are much more robust and have a lot more content than they did during the Reddit API exodus. I imagine there will be more people who choose to stay this time around.
- The problem is that communities feel dead if they're below a certain critical mass of users and the resulting content. If we can hit that critical mass it will take off on its own
- Yep, I discovered let me during the API Exodus, and then came back recently with this last wave. They're definitely feels like there's a lot more here than last time!
  Also finding a lot of value in reading and actually interacting with comments and content, on Reddit I just felt kind of drowned out and a lurker
- Yeah working a lot of OT seeding this joint!

Reddit, when the walls fell

People getting sick and tide of Reddit. TBH I’m still salty over them killing 3rd party apps and I’m so glad they did because that drew the line for me, also fuck spez.
- I'm more oxi clean of reddit myself
- They've basically banned anonymous accounts. Their whole thing was anonymity.
  
  Without anonymity it is in fact pointless. Pseudo anonymity is extremely useful I basically won't go anywhere without it. That's definitely a feature we should advertise to people, you can actually be anonymous
  
  They seem to be blocking access from certain IPs and VPNs (if not logged in?) Which is funny because some of these VPNs are not really hiding anything. Like my work VPN which I would think makes it pretty obvious which company I work for. Annoying when search results link to reddit content.
  
  Wait first I'm hearing of this one. What happened now?
- Reddit has become very strange.
  Shadowbanning sucks when your on the other side of it.
  Forever mods that have hundreds of default subreddits act like dictators. Banning people from all their collections of subreddits without anyone knowing.
  Removing the ability for users to see actual number of votes up/down.
  And now with the whole "don't upvotes certain content or you will get a strike". Never mind that isn't how the site works at all.
  They haven't come out with a feature that people have wanted in the last couple of years.
  
  It's been a while since I've been on and everything I'm hearing is that it just keeps getting worse. Eventually it'll be completely unusable and probably shudder but by then the real conversation will have moved elsewhere
  
  Getting rid of coins/rewards just to empty everyone's stock and then bringing them back again without 1:1 compensation and forgetting everyone who gave their coins away before they would vanish
- Same, it was over for me when they took Boost away thankfully Boost pivoted to Lemmy lol
  
  Is Boost dead though? I love it too, but it hasn't updated in a while
  
  Boost gang!
- I'll still check sometimes on Reddit when I'm at my desk if I feel like it and I've got time, so like barely anymore.
  When 3rd party apps died I moved here.
  After them saying that if you upvote enough banned content you'll get banned, I'm just waiting to catch ban over there.
  
  i still lurk a lot. i have a rule against posting there though... which admittedly i did break recently, but only to plug lemmy. otherwise no posts/comments there in two years
  
  Use Reddit Enhancement Suite. You'll thank me later.
  makes red it much more usable and easy on the eyes.

Woo more people to join our cult. Everyone will get their robes in the mail
- Wait, I've been here almost 2 years, where's my robes‽
  
  You know what you did
  
  You and I will be considered the early adaptors. People will guess as to why we migrated so early.
  
  What's the password?
  
  The real robes were the Caroline's we got DMed by along the way.
- Well at least Nicole from Toronto in their inbox.

Reddit is being crazy and censoring/banning people.

Step up Lemmy, cometh the hour cometh the platform!

What’s that dip on 2/12? What happened?
- Hexbear went offline as the domain expired, went to auction and the domain admin was MIA. They've been restored as the domain admin (unfortunately) came back and reclaimed it
- The hexbear.net instance went down, because the admins forgot to renew the domain name
  (Technically the server was still running, but federation works via domain names)

Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday
- Welcome!
  If you're new, I definitely recommend checking out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities to subscribe to, rather than just browsing "all". There are a lot of weird communities out there when you just browse "all"...
  
  https://sub.rehab/ is also good.
- Welcome! It's a great, homely place that still feels a little bit like the old internet.
  In addition to the already mentioned Lemmyverse, two other great ways of finding active communities are !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
  
  The old internet never went away, not on a technical level for sure. What changed is that big corporations had dominant positions from control over user bases and then they squeezed us for profits so hard that it's no longer worth it to use them. This process seems to have accelerated since the end of the era of easy money in 2022 which is why we're seeing things pop off more than it used to.
- Welcome!
- Welcome!
  There's a ton of good apps that use the API.
- Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian "communists" who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the "gold standard"), but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a .world account so you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  In terms of sorting the "tankie triad" least bad to worst though it's definitely: ML, Grad, then HexBear. At least I sometimes have decent interactions with people from ML, can't say the same about the other 2 though.
  Edit: Actually put this as a reply to the correct comment this time. :/
  I deleted the other one as I replied to the wrong comment.
  
  We have an entire instance dedicated to popular 1960s television show Star Trek (don't go there)
  
  the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear.
  aka where the good posts are hidden, if you want news outside of the mainstream liberal echo chamber a lemmy.ml account works well

I’ve enjoyed it. Doubt I’m using it to its fullest ability. Only on two instances.
- You don't need multiple accounts, communities are subscribable from remote instances.
- You only need the one account, you don't need to sign into other instances.
  There can be some weirdness on the web version where if someone uses the wrong type of link then you maybe redirected away and can't interact as you're not logged in.
  For example:
  ✅ !casualuk@feddit.uk
  ❌ https://feddit.uk/c/casualuk
  
  How can I link a post without redirecting?

I’m here to help the place grow. Let’s do it!

Just got here and started a regional community for the American Midwest. Come on down!
https://lemmy.world/c/midwest
- There is an entire instance for the Midwest. Have a look to check if they already have an active community
  https://midwest.social/
  
  Thank you!

Greeting new Lemmings!
Please wipe your feet, we don't want anyone tracking in any spez.

Sync for Lemmy is a good app' if anyone is looking for RIF like experience. Sync
- I'm a fan of Voyager. Very nice experience in my opinion
  
  I'm using Voyager right now and I agree it's good
- As much as I love Sync, it has been almost a year since the last update.
  
  I'm using Connect (on Android, dunno if it's on iPhone tbh), just had an update yesterday. Very solid interface, reminds me a bit of bacon reader
- Alternatively, shout out to Boost for Lemmy - from the creator of one of the best Reddit 3rd party clients (RIP Boost for Reddit).

2025 is the year of the Lemmyverse!
- *threadiverse, we don't want to exclude other software
  
  I'm excited to see where software development is going to go. It seems like every major microblogging platform has a few different flavors and there are multiple platform choices available. What were using is just the beginning, the software can only ever get better really. It's not like the corporate world where they make shit worse on purpose to make more money. And as the software gets better than use might increase as well since you can do more and do it easier and more elegantly
  
  True, but this graph only shows Lemmy users, right?
- The more people that transition over here the better it'll be (outside of some of some subs). I'm hopeful to see more community engagement.
  
  the more and more reddit increasing thier filters to ban or remove comments we will see more. it going to take permabans for people to come here in large numbers. sooner or later reddit is just a clone of FACEBOOK.

You know it’s so simple to just click a different app and go back to infinite scrolling the way I’m used to.
I’m not a fussy user, I don’t get all up in arms over changes in functionality or whatever. It’s also nice not to see orange man on the internet whenever I scroll

I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit's MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.
Regardless, this is nice to see and I recommend everyone check out !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com if they are interested in helping to promote Lemmy instances on Reddit.
- I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit’s MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.
  On the other hand, Reddit's reported users numbers are way too high for the actual activity on the website. I follow /r/BuyfromEU quite closely since the sub blew up, and it's definitely not that active for a place with supposedly 150k subs
  
  Great point, absolutely! I don't subscribe to the "dead internet theory" but my time on the Fediverse has also convinced me that all of the corporate platform's traffic numbers are almost certainly heavily inflated (probably to justify higher ad prices).
- It's possible that early adopters (ie: the current Lemmy population) as a population subset don't fully conform to the 90-9-1 rule.
  
  I would imagine that we're all more motivated than average considering we've made the conscious choice to travel the path less taken because we have standards

The new front page of the internet is upon us

Let's go!

2025 is also the year of Piefed. :)
- The year of PielemmbinBB
  
  The entire fedi is going up with new users. We keep having wins.
  Kinda easy when traditional keeps hitting itself over and over.
  
  Year of the Verse
- Is there a mobile app yet? I made an account because I was interested in the new Feeds feature, but I spend 100% of my time on the Threadiverse using my phone.
  
  No. However there are two mobile app in WIP :
  a fork of Thunder : Pferd. (only for testing and i love its logo)
  Interstellar, they want to support Piefed
  I use daily Piefed as an app. The mobile website works well :
  you open https://piefed.social/ with your browser.
  Then click on add a shortcut and it will work as an app.

What happened around the middle of February that caused that slight but sharp drop-off?
- thats about the time when reddit was upping thier ban purges, my hunch is people who have lemmy mightve stop using temporarily to find out what was going on/repealing thier bans on reddit?
  for a several days i dint immediately go to LEMMY after my permabans, but trying to find out the reason behind all these purges ? some people have multiple reddit accounts
- Hexbear going down, !fediverselore@lemmy.ca
  
  A slightly different graph from Fedecan shows the user growth more clearly without the Hexbear blip
  Highest daily growth since 2023 at 1.2k per day the past few days.
  
  Ahh okay. Thanks.
- For the story, if i recall correctly, part of hexbear admins were aways so they got a paiement problem.
  Their domain reseller put a bid for hexbear.net domain. It skyrocketed to 2500$. I'm glad they didn't have to pay those corpothieve.

That can't be true. we only have 466 judging by the upvote count. xD

What is the reddit drama this time?
- Tension over there is huge. After I turned a little more political in my comments, it took me only 2 months or so to accrue 3 temp bans. The appeals were not heard, they are wrong and don't care. The last appeal got me booted forever. Prepare for way more users.
- Well out right ban on the american hero's name along with pandering to alt right and their parasite owners.
- Getting in trouble for upvoting restricted material. If you continually upvote stuff that reddit deems not allowed on the site you get banned.
- It's the ever enduring brain melting Enshittification... I heard you can now buy decorations or something similar for your sub. I don't have a source for this, but afaik they have been adding new features for reddditors to spend their money on.

I wonder what happened during the small dip . Very good news though!
- An instance was defederated.
  
  Was it not that instance which lost their URL License? I cant remember the instance name

New guy here. Signikg up was a bitch but glad to be here :)
- What made it a bitch? Genuinely curious.
  
  Instances - what are they and how does it work together. Also slow password reset emails. I have three accounts now.
  I still don’t really understand but i am in 🤷‍♂️

Big uptick last few days. I’ve heard there were more redditors coming over after more dumb stuff occurred recently. There was the Luigi hat thing recently.
- Luigi is insanely popular among basically everyone even right wingers. Being firmly anti Luigi is a choice for sure, a bad one
- I had previously used lemmy a while ago, but wasn't too impressed. Then after getting frustrated with reddit time and time again, I tried again, but couldn't find a simple way to get back here. The other day, a post on reddit detailed a very simple way to get here. And now I'm here. (and loving it very much so far)
  
  Just curious, what was difficult about finding a way to get back here?
  Is it because the various instance names are hard to remember?
  My theory is that’s why so many new people end up on Lemmy.world. Many of the other popular instances have host names / domain names that are more difficult to remember and to tell someone about verbally.

Really happy to see. I need to start posting more.
- That's the spirit.

Ha, I knew setting up my own server would attract more people!!! /s
But it is a great development, happy to see it 😀

Glad it is increasing.

Astronomical

Made a similar post yesterday on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com , nice to celebrate again!

I’m one of those 50k. Glad to be here!

I created an account a while back and I'm back after receiving a warning from reddit for upvoting certain content. I was going through the communities looking for stuff to subscribe to and I was a bit surprised by the number of communities with a couple thousand users and the last post being half a month or more out.
I hope people's suggestions about making the instances and navigation more seamless is being taken seriously because there hasn't been much change there from what I'm seeing.
- Even though 50k is a nice number of MAUs and allows for active discussion in the bigger communities, it's still not enough to fuel niche communities - at least presuming the 90-9-1 rule applies even to early adopters such as us. While I agree that discoverability could be a lot better, I think what's holding back the smaller communities right now is lacking critical mass more than anything else.
- A bunch of communities were created at the last Reddit exodus and left to die. Buuut some of the communities might have moved to another Lemmy server or simply died out because the same community exists on another Lemmy server.