Lemmy.world grew by about 40% on the first day of reddit migration
Lemmy.world grew by about 40% on the first day of reddit migration
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!
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.
spez is unironically the best thing to happen to Lemmy lmao.
We gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers.
Best Lemmy instance on the fediverse. I appreciate the work the admins here have done
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.
Glad to be here!
It's astounding, seeing how fast new communities are being founded and populated. I'm not much of a "community starter" type, but I'm quite excited to find a new home for the shitpost-tier OC I make. I'm also sincerely fascinated to see how all these new places coexist/cross-pollinate.
Welcome to all you new folks! Water is great!
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. ☺
Congratulations to the instance for it's extraordinary growth!
Welcome everyone who popped over from reddit.
It's important to remember you're on the fediverse, a huge variety of websites running all sorts of software of which lemmy.world is just one server, and Lemmy itself is just one piece of software. There's many other reddit-alikes like Lemmy, as well as software like Twitter, or Instagram, or Facebook, or YouTube.
Decentralization is strength. Try to spread out over instances with our users and our communities because instances can and do shut down, shut off federation, or otherwise become reddit.
This is supported by admins and users, there is no pot of venture capital money keeping instances running or paying admins. Keep that in mind.
I peeked around a bit with Connect (android) for a while, and the things that stood out the most to me was the small size and sluggishness of the whole thing. BUT what also stuck out far more were pins of maintenance because of growth & updates of constant hard work to increase performance, and an interface that (while slightly jank) is infinitely superior to the official reddit app. It's good to see continued growth, especially in such a welcoming community. The problems are providing to be simple growing pains and it's great to be here.
It's so great to see. Just proves what everyone was saying all along. Communities are built by the people that participate in them, and not the tools. Get rid of those tools and we'll find other ones.
Exciting to see it growing!
Long time reddit lurker here, trying out a few alternatives at the moment but quite liking Lemmy. Glad to see growth in all of them and super excited for the boost for Lemmy app coming out!
Used to be a long time Reddit lurker, but I feel as if this migration for me is giving me the chance to start afresh, and be a bigger part of this new community!
Welcome newcomers to the fediverse!
I'm here!!! Fuck Reddit!!
I'm excited to be here! I heard a lot about the digg migration to reddit around when I first started on there 10 years ago. Never thought I'd be a part of the next one so soon!
I already learned my lesson when I signed up to the big Mastodon instance hosted on the other side of the world—found the second largest US-based server I could find, signed up there, rock solid so far.
I hope I am not missing anything if I joined using lemmy.ml.
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.
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.
And you can add me to the statistics of today. I'm a Boost user for Reddit. It feels so weird not having it on my phone anymore. Like I've gone to work without any pants on. I've been active on reddit for 13 years and it's been genuinely difficult leaving it behind. I'm hoping this can be my new home. I just wanna be a chill dude who likes to talk about Star Trek (keep the 'Thats not real Trek' away from me, thanks), Star Wars (same sentiment), and share information. A place where I can vent after life inevitably kicks me in the teeth again.
Still just low-key stunned that my name was up for grabs.
Reddit expats represent.
Glad to be here! Just got to learn the ropes.
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 see folks coming over here, definitely shaping up into a preferable alternative :)
Holy shit
Man the servers got hit today didn't they!
The future is looking bright
It’s weirdly exciting to have a fresh start on a new platform. Hoping to see those numbers continue to grow!
I just joined and so far I'm really liking it. Gonna have to figure out the new format these instances, but I'm up for it!
Someone should post this in r/UpliftingNews
I have slowly been trying to redo my frontpage here and so far with all those migration links it's been a breeze
Man the servers got hit today didn't they!
The future is looking bright
That’s intense.
Glad to be here!
Slightly off-topic: Can you guys access lemm.ee? It looks all messed up on my end.. @sunaurus@lemm.ee
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
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
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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.
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!
Came to know about Lemmy when Sync for reddit dev put notice on their app, joined same day. Waiting for Sync for Lemmy. Hi my fellow fedophiles.
And yet fediverse observer is showing declining user count, while server count, comments and posts are growing steadily.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Why?
This is my first comment on Lemmy. I'm still learning the ropes but about to nuke my 10 year old reddit account with probably at this point tens of thousands of comments - content for Reddit.
Very happy to see that such a strong migration is actually happening.
Good for Lemmy.
Such great news about Lemmy.world
i'm so glad to be part of the revolution
That is a great gain. Awesome.
lets go
In.
Looks awesome!
i have been using saidit becasue i said something edgy and got shadowbanned on one of my reddit accounts a while back. sadly saidit never grew to be as big as lemmy. but it's still good to see decentralized platform rise again. someone mentioned aaron schwarz in a recent discussion on reddit perhaps under a post concerning reddit's recent policy changes and baclashes, and i am glad to see aaron's decentralization idea realizing here on lemmy.
Haha awesome!
I'm unable to even log into my .world account anymore. So just gonna use my other ones for now.
Lemmy gang rise up!
WoW that's insane, still lemmy.world is working better than lemmy.ml for me. Good job admins.
Nice! That's a lotta growth.
And you can add me to the statistics of today. I'm a Boost user for Reddit. It feels so weird not having it on my phone anymore. Like I've gone to work without any pants on. I've been active on reddit for 13 years and it's been genuinely difficult leaving it behind. I'm hoping this can be my new home. I just wanna be a chill dude who likes to talk about Star Trek (keep the 'Thats not real Trek' away from me, thanks), Star Wars (same sentiment), and share information. A place where I can vent after life inevitably kicks me in the teeth again.
Still just low-key stunned that my name was up for grabs.
Is there a way to track the activity change/traffic for Reddit? Especially now, given that 3rd party API access is mostly cut off.
So cool!
Really enjoying all the extra content and increased buzz of activity! Hope it keeps going up from here.
woah
Amazing. I’m sure it’ll keep growing too
Cheers Reddit (and all of my Karma). It's great to have a good alternative.
Awesome! Awesome to the max!
Welcome to all. This is a great alternative to reddit.