We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is.

Honestly, I also try to be more active as a user in Lemmy, and it feels way more rewarding because it feels like a more tight-knitly community here. Like it a lot!

It checks all the boxes for me. No bots, no spam, mostly coherent adults, feels just like using reddit.
I hate to sound all hipster, but a super big community does typically end up ruining themselves. It's nothing against the fandom itself or even the majority of people in it, it's just that eventually more toxic people will be included as popularity increases.
That was my biggest gripe nearing the end of reddit and how all subs past 250k subs felt like they either became /r/pics, /r/videos, or /r/funny
- i really like it without the bots. what worries me is that with influx of users eventually bots will arrive. but hopefully without karma system atleast karmafarming bots won't materialise
The breadth and depth of comments is what I've missed most from the past. Really happy to see these posts in the 1000s of upvotes with 100s of comments. I'll try to do my part.
- I also find it refreshing to see, what I assume is, the actual amount of votes on posts and comments again. Makes it more human maybe instead of an arbitrary number
Same here.

Keep in mind, dear folks, simply coming ain't enough. Be sure to stay and visit often, otherwise the rich assholes win ;)

And vote! And comment!
- And post
- Smash that like button and subscribe!
"Stay awhile and listen!"
I wanna shitpost more but why can't I upload pictures? Is the server at it's limit or something?
- Lemmy doesn’t like jpegs for some ungodly reason
"Why are you scrolling gonewild again?" "freedom depends on it" "oh. Carry on, I guess"

This is pretty awesome. I've tried mastodon when Twitter shit the bed a few months back and it never really launched the way I'd hoped.

Lemmy seems pretty lively. At first I was a bit disillusioned with the fact that it's not as active as reddit, but I feel the caliber of user that's come over is better than who we've all been dealing with the past 3-5 years over there. I'm happy to be here and there's palpable excitement

Does Mastodon even have a filter so I can view all tweets from every instance like Lemmy does for posts? Because, if it does, I haven't found it.
- Your client should have All and Local feeds, All being for everything your instance is federated with
- I mean, yeah, that is the whole point.
  You need to search for key words or alternative just press a hashtag you see on a post, hashtags is how all instances communicate since there isn't a proper text only searcher across instances.
  Hashtags are extremely important if you want people from outside your own instance to find your posts and they are heavily used by everyone for that reason.
  Of course you can manually search for users, or go to other instances and follow people from those, that way yohr own timeline will be filled with people outside your own instance.
You know I did the same thing made an account for mastodon and never really used it. But since coming over here after leaving reddit and seeing how enjoyable it was I went back to the mastodon app and I have to say now that I'm familiar with lemmy mastodon made more sense to me.
Yeah I'm hoping Lemmy doesn't get big too quickly, quality over quantity
- I think a good majority of those of us migrating here from reddit are content creators and/or productive users (engaging in relevant discussion, reporting spam/trolls, downvoting/reporting irrelevant content, etc.).
  I think there are most definitely going to be social loafers, lurkers, and harmful users coming over from reddit too. But I firmly believe that the proportion of healthy users greatly outweighs the unhealthy users in this influx of users from reddit.
  It's the trolls, mindless idiots, hateful, anti-intellectual, unproductive and unhealthy community members who are content staying on reddit, and are glad to see us leave.
  I think Lemmy being new and unpolished will also help sift out unproductive/unhealthy users. They'll arrive and see that Lemmy/the fediverse is still in its infancy, and they'll likely rather just stick with reddit because it's more convenient.
  I think the proportion of unproductive/unhealthy users here will grow as the site grows and becomes more stable and streamlined. But I think we've got some time to foster a great site/communities before they come en masse.

I mean, if Reddit blocks 3rd party apps, I ain’t staying. I’ll just come here which appears to basically be a better version of Reddit.

If?
Mate, they've already done it.

We all be going to Reddit and letting people know about the migration to Lemmy.... And make sure to promote one of the 3rd party apps to the redditors. The best one I've tried so far is Connect for Lemmy on the Google play store.

Wefwef is really good too…feels like Apollo
- it's not available on ios. i tried :(
- Yo thanks for recommending wefwef. I think its the best way to view lemmy and now I've stopped using Connect for Lemmy. Still waiting on Sync for Lemmy though.
I'm using Connect right now and I'm quite happy with it. Though when Sync launches I'll be switching to that. I used Sync pro for reddit for years and would be happy to pay for that again.
- Ayy another Syncer in the wild. Can't wait till it releases.
Try out Liftoff. I like it quite a bit. Jerboa kept crashing on me, and Liftoff had a certain feature that Connect doesn't have (yet?)
I'll keep bouncing around and checking them all out over the next few months
- Have tried most and Liftoff is easily the best I've found so far. Former Sync Pro user.

You all might not be aware, but I think Rudd started this server only at the beginning of June for funsies, probably only expecting a couple of hundred users.

Then, of course, came Reddit API-calypse. Now, here we are barely 4 weeks later, almost 80k users on the instance. From nothing, to a respectable chuck of the fediverse, just that fast. Pretty amazing.

True, I opened my account June 1st on Beehaw, lemmy.world didn't exist yet. But I had to open an account on LW when BH defederated them...
- I'm happy to see .world growing for this reason. There has to be a neutral ground for everyone. The gatekeeping of communities like Beehaw are fine for them, but in order for the lemmy to grow, it has to be shapeable by the community. Moderation screening, content rigidity, and walled gardens are antithetical to the type of social network that people are looking for as a replacement to Reddit. The community has to be allowed to make the place its own.
  Edit: For the record, I'm perfectly aware they plan to refederate once they get their "moderation" tools. I just question what tools they deem sufficient to permit refederation. Moderation tools on Lemmy will be extremely powerful thanks to votes being public, and I don't trust admins of some of these instances to be responsible or fair with them, or to only use them on the most toxic elements. Petty, groundless shadowbanning and admin "curation" is going to plague Lemmy going forward, mark my words. That's why we need some neutral ground.
- Can you (or anyone else) explain the circumstances around them defederating? More specifically, why would they do that, and what exactly is their benefit?

Shame about World's stability issues. Probably brought on by its popularity.

Better to be broken and full than stable and empty.
Better to be broken and full than stable and empty.

Migrated here from RIF (RIP), lemmy.world being suggested on top of the how to join guide definitely played a part in choosing this instance along with all the recommendations from other users.

Definitely feel much more inclined to comment here than on Reddit as of late, all the regurgitated meme shitposts and karma farming bot comments were getting really old. If it takes donating / paying a sub to keep Lemmy human discussion focused, that's what I will do.

Lemmy perfectly represents the adage "building the plane as you fly it" and it's been so much fun seeing it take shape.

It's great. In weeks people has packed their bags and badabing badaboom new community. The party continues as reddit never happened (besides the gloating ofc)

My addiction have new management. A lot more community driven than the last one 😁

Heck yeah, hello everyone fleeing reddit!

Glad to see Refugees like myself finding a new home. I'd be interested in sporting some merchandise it some of the proceeds go back into covering costs etc..

Understand the sentiment, but hey, in the meantime you could go old school and make some promo stuff yourself to sport if you're crafty. It'd be even more in the spirit of this space than merch tbh!

Love the decentralized model. I’m so over corporate run sites looking to make a profit

I love it here! Keep being awesome, people. And to new beginnings 🎊

I'm here to stay, I love semi-niche social media sites :)

It's nice seeing how much Lemmy is growing. I knew there would be an influx of new users from the 30th, but it's honestly nice seeing more comments overall and posts getting upvoted.

Yeah, I was expecting a small bump of new people when the 3PAs shut down, but the absolute deluge we've been getting is a pleasant surprise. RIF sending its users here has a lot to do with it, I think.
- Will the folks at RIF make an app?
- I didn't know RIF sent peeps here, but funnily enough I was a RIF user and now I'm here.
- 3PA?
- That's why I'm here. Just opened the app for the first time since the beginning of the month and was sent here. It's a bit strange, but I'm sure I'll figure it out.

congrats from .ca!

while im here: does anybody actually know why lemmy.world grew the fastest out of all of the instances? its not the "main" instance like .ml, not a safe space like beehaw, and a normal general instance like itjust.works. im curious why out of all places, .world got the main influx

I think it was the instance referenced in the RIF goodbye message. That's what got me here, anyway.
.world is biggest because it's the biggest. Also RIF.
- oh damn a rif redirect happened?
Personally speaking, at the time I made this account it seemed one of the better open, general instances with a home domain that wouldn't be kinda clunky to tell others about. Folks I'd suggest this to wouldn't care about the shit just works jokey name, but they'd probably be a little annoyed at the whole sh dot itjust dot works formatting...Which even just saying that aloud kinda sucks.
If it were shit.just.works no big deal, but it's not, so lemmy.world is easier to write & say by comparison. That all said, even more important to me than the name was whether the admin had any experience running a federated server before for awhile, which lemmy.world's had via their hosting of mastodon.world, so I opted for this instance. There may have been other general instances at the time with similar experience that I overlooked tbh, and I may still hop over to another at some point, but so far this one works decently enough to me.
-I know of some "legacy" lemmy instances that kinda fit this description, like .ca or midwest.social, but I regarded those as more for folks from those areas, and Beehaw is a little too positivity focused for my tastes (I also don't know that I'm "nice" enough to get along well there).
- sh.itjust.works is an unbearable name to read. i read dots in a website link like the end of a sentence (ex lemmy.world would be lemmy {break} dot {break} world.) good instance, despise the name
Because on the main Lenny website world shows up as recommended. The other recommended sites want users to put an email in addition to a write up on what they can offer. Which totally kills interest for any new people.
I think the main Lenny website is to blame here tbh. It pushing users towards a few preset instances that are not really new user friendly.
Some are not accepting sign ups at all.
- join-lemmy.org shows a few instances at the top of its join page:
  lemmy.fmhy.ml (which is based)
  sh.itjust.works which im pretty sure is having a free speech or too much user choice problem atm
  lemm.ee, a general instance
  sopuli.xyz, which i know nothing about (who is finn???)
  i dont see .world until a further scroll down from those. did they change it?
For what it's worth what sold me on .world is the slogan, front-page of the internet. It may or may not be misleading but I'm after a Reddit replacement with a mix of all communities.
As I explore more I may go elsewhere but so far it has the Reddit feel.
- is the slogan, front-page of the internet
  so far it has the Reddit feel
  isnt that reddits slogan? no kidding, buddy. no kidding. (i mean this in a positive way)

If you use it YOU GOTTA GIVE. EVERYBODY GIVES!

Guess I will make my first comment. Hi everyone :)

Still trying to figure out how get subreddit equivalents set up. Everything on my home page is the same "fuck soez" message.

Go to "communities", select "all" and search for the subreddit equivalents you want. Then you can subscribe to them - their posts will be visible when you browse by "subscribed" on the main page. "Subscribed" is basically the equivalent of "Home" on reddit.
- Make sure to set your subscribed communities as your default view if you get tired of seeing the same local posts from your instance.
I’m getting older, so my speed at picking up new tech is a little slower than it used to be, but I’m finding my footings.
From my limited interaction so far, I think what also happens is that there are lot’s of different servers to connect to, and each server can have it’s own “sub-reddit” which are called communities. For example, lemmy.world might have a “showerthoughts” community, but another server like “sh.itjustworks” can also have a “showerthoughts” community. When you subscribe to a community, you subscribe to that servers instance… so depending on which server community you subscribe to, might not be the most active one. at least that’s how I have pieced it together. Please someone correct me if I am waaaaaaaay off!
Subscribe to the communities you want. I usually do so by visiting one directly, like https://lemmy.world/c/technology. Once there, the sidebar has a button for it.
- For new users here, you can also link communities by typing:
  !vans@lemmy.world
  ![community]@[lemmy instance]

Reddit refugee here. F spez.

Hi new person from reddit here! Can't wait for this place to grow

Friendly reminder to donate to your home instance if possible! Every little bit helps :)

Amen

This is not a good thing. Part of the problem is third-party apps like Sync and other Fediverse advocates that direct Reddit users to sign up on only one instance, lemmy.world. This is understandable to keep things simple for the Redditors but it hurts lemmy.world (cost and performance-wise) and the Fediverse as a whole (centralization) to have a lot of accounts on one instance. I hope lemmy.world can make an announcement or guide to encourage users to spread out to more instances.

I think another reason too is that .world is run by Ruud who is a trusted actor in the space (he already runs Mastodon.world, a large mastodon instance), and so many (including me) probably felt it would be a safe harbor and not likely to get shut down or run poorly.
- Maybe ony Lemmy.world's registration page thay can list other instances that they trust and endorse.
- I stumbled into lemmy disoriented and just went with lemmy.ca because I always want to support 'local' domains. I'm surprised people go for for something like '.world' tbh. Although, I think your logic makes sense I also know how little people read and its safer to say people just signed up for the instance that was the path of least resistance (low application threshold, links guiding them in, etc)
I think we're trusting them to crunch the numbers and simply shut off registration if it gets out of control. At least, I'd hope so.
- That wouldn't be good either if third parties are still funnelling new users to lemmy.world. They'll see a "sign ups closed" message, assume there is only one forum and it's closed, then go back to Reddit.
Some degree of centralization is inevitable. I think it may be 2-4 main instances that people will predominately use.
- I know that it's inevitable, but the signup flow should try to weaken that effect instead of contribute to it. An example of how not to do it is Mastodon's old homepage which led to only one instance, mastodon.social, to "make onboarding easier".
How is it possible to decentralise sign ups and see/searchable content and tabs? I used to be tech savvy but these days I struggle a bit. Turning into a dinosaur.
- I have a "when I stop being bad at web development" project idea for this, hopefully someone who has a development background can pick it up.
  The idea is an open-source onboarding portal that takes all Lemmy instances from awesome-lemmy-instances and Kbin instances from FediDB and lets their admins tag their instances with what the instance is focused on, maybe through a dedicated community or something. This list of instances and tags is public so instances can't cheat the system with fake tags or get secretly blacklisted just because the project maintainer disagrees with them.
  Users get directed to the portal and fill out a quiz with questions like "what are your hobbies", "do you prefer strict or lax moderation", and get matched to a list of the closest servers and recommended communities. There will also be a simple load balancing algorithm to make large instances less likely to be recommended. Of course, because it's open source, the algorithm and list of instances can be changed if someone wants to host their own portal.
  Basically, something like Spread Mastodon that covers the entire known network and not just a few of the largest instances that are approved by mastodon.social.
- Find instances on https://join-lemmy.org
  Find subs (communities) on https://browse.feddit.de

Yup! F Spez, once I'm done saving some of my reddit content I'll let him know just that. I did already report him for help, incase he gets suicidal thoughts. He deserves to watch it burn. 😂

Guys we need more activity on the One Piece communities. I'm one of two people who actually posts there

I'm the only contributor so far on the !vans@lemmy.world community I created.. r/vans was in the top 5% largest subs. Where my r/vans refugees at??

I have tried many forum-styled site over the years including the politically more questionable ones, and from what I see theres 3 hurdles a site need to pass in order to be good:

it needs good infrastructure, especially user interface (where 4ch, most forum, and now reddit fail)
it has some gatekeeping to filter out the "order consumers", but not too much that it drives user away, including having a toxic environment (where 4ch and .win fail)
it needs to have enough user generated content so thay theres actually reasons to use the site (whre most reddit clones fail)

from what I see lemmy has passed all the hurdles, and I have good hope the fediverse will stick around

What is an order consumer
- In a community, whether if it’s online or your local club or just society in general, it requires admin/moderator/judges/law enforcement etc. to put in hard work to create rules and order so everything function smoothly. In a sense, the “order” they create here can be treated as a commodity.
  A user can do things that helps out the moderators and create order (e.g. taxes, volunteering), or break rules and cause chaos, which “consumes” order (e.g. criminal activity, riots, trolling etc.) . Order consumers refers to people who consumes more order than they create.
  E: typo

I did my part. By which I mean I made an account and made a single comment (well, two now.)

Still hoping to find a good comparable app to Slide for Reddit. Liftoff for Lemmy has fairly similar comment layout at least.

Sync for Lemmy is coming. It was my favourite Reddit app. Should be good here too.
- I’m using wefwef. Having used Apollo for almost 7 years, it makes Lemmy feels just like home!
- Sync will be the game changer
- Can't wait for sync
- Never tried Sync, I think. Maybe I'll give it a try for Lemmy some point.
Slide for Lemmy is in development, see !slide@feddit.uk
- Dope. Had to hunt down the uh... "Sublemmy" I guess we'd call it? Maybe not. Community, anyway.
  Link is being read as an email and Liftoff wants to open up Gmail for it. Which I get, looks like one.
Nobody mentioned Thunder so I'm going to mention it!
- Nevermind heard of it. What's your opinion?
  Like how's it compare to the others?
Same here Re: Slide, Liftoff does the trick for me and runs on android 7
- It feels closer to it. I'm really looking forward to Slide for Lemmy to get completed.
  Feels like home.
  Still completely broken right now. Only version 0.0.2. can't even access a "sublemmy" without it crashing. Good enough to browse the frontpage and look at posts. Nothing else for now.
  Using Connect at the moment. Bouncing between it and Liftoff.
Connect and Jerboa are also alright. I think i like Jerboa the most so far
- Started with Connect and didn't find anything lacking that would make me want go looking for something else. Figure I will stay with it until the former reddit apps complete their ports.

Thank you for having us.

I'd move to a closer instance, if I new they were in it for the long run and not shut down when they get bored after a few months. What happens if the instance I'm registered to decides to shut down?

I have to agree here. I went through this same issue with Mastodon when I joined a smaller instance "mastodon.lol". It shut down without any apparent notice to me (using a third-party app). I had to start from scratch and mastodon even has an account migration feature.
I can't in good conscience tell a less technical friend "oh go use a smaller instance" when that means they can come across a dead-looking thread or community (that just hasn't been federated to them yet) or suddenly lose their account when their instance disappears with little to no notice.
- I'm starting to realize that it's only the links that are decentralized and not, what I'd hoped for but was maybe obvious, my data/account.
  I've asked over at !fediverse@lemmy.world if anyone can register any nickname on any instance - essentially spoofing a user but on a different instance. Or if a username is "taken" across the fediverse.
  Edit: anyone can register any ones username on a different instance. Spoofing/scamming isn't handled very good?
  Edit2: post and comment data is federated too, so your posts won't dissappear, but might dis-converge(?) into multiple versions depending on things? :) This post helped me understand some of it: https://lemmy.world/comment/205763

I guess that's because "World" is a pretty bold statement and suggests an expanse that can accommodate a truckload of migrants. Add to that the open signups and my natural aversion to smaller instances (I tend to think someone with a few users may feel tempted to pull the plug at any moment), and here we are. By the way, I have had a great experience with Connect for Lemmy - if anyone is interested.

I've signed up to lemmy.world don't know what an instance is or why it might be important to sign up to something different. Want to help as much as possible. Please educate me!

The best analogy I've seen is "think of your lemmy instance as your email provider". Your account "lives" in your home instance, but no matter which instance you are you can see content and interact with all instances that are connected.
Since the instance you are doesn't matter much, people recommend spreading simply to avoid overloading one instance with too many users.
- Email analogy is good to explain the systems architecture, but it still doesn't communicate ethics of proper use (decentralization). Just look how many people have gmail or outlook as their mail account.

I suppose this is a good place for my first post. I'm happy to be here. This has saved me from the withdrawals of losing reddit. I hope we can make this an active community.

Is there any concern that world's population might overload the server? I keep reading that we need to spread the server load to other instances.

This is inevitable. Eventually instances might decide to share server capacity to accomodate more users. World is my home instance but it's really slow. Takes me 10 tries to post something or view comments. Hopefully I can post this without issues.

I'm very excited to see how this all develops. Right now it's pretty rough and the constant failure to load/comments getting duplicated or disappearing hurts a lot but it does have potential. Let the Lemmy's free!