Lemmy.world reaches new milestone: 100k users and counting!
Created on June 1 of this year, lemmy.world quickly grew to 51k users and then blew up after reddit's API debacle on July 1, doubling to a whopping 100k in just 9 days later!
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The only good bug is a dead bug!
I'm from Beunos Aries and I say, kill them all!
I imagine this could be really confusing to someone whose second language is English.
Hmm. Was it the typo? I just edited that. Stupid brain bug made me do it. Thanks!
Tell me more about this “dong”
I am parting my do!
Haha me too :D
I dong my part for Lemmy.world everyday!!
Edit: awww he edited his post :/
Keep your dong to yourself
LETS GO LENNY!!!
Petition to change the lemmy.world logo to Lenny
Yes. Where do I sign lol
good work!
If lemmy goes in the wrong direction and everyone abandons (water)ship, Lenny would be a good pejorative. After all, who better to unwitting snap a rodent’s neck than Lenny?
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Lenny ftw, so much better than Reffit
Not Lenny!
I came due to protest, but staying for quality of fediverse users (posting from kbin)
I was waiting for a MicroWave thread about this 😁
Congratulations everyone for this milestone! 🥳
Or you might be 1% of 1%. I think it is great. At least until I arbitarily decide it is not. ;)
I’m trying to keep up with the fediverse jargon, but what the heck is a MicroWave thread?
Just done by Microwave, an enthusiastic poster
Oh geez. Got it. Thank you!
No worries, have a good day!
Wasn't lemmy.world only created in mid June?
Zuck, Spez, and Elon can suck my nuts!
Well I'm loving Lemmy.world so far. Feels refreshing in here.
I wasn't commenting much on Reddit, but in here I feel like participating.
Congrats and thanks Lemmy.world admin @[email protected]
Hello from Kbin. It's nice that we can hang out.
waves across the tubes
Al Gore invented those you know.
The internet is not something you just dump something on.
It is pretty sweet. The fediverse. It's nice that we can all hang out. ☺️
I absolutely love it. I can't wait for the fediverse to thrive with lemmy integration for peertube and an imgur alternative
Just documenting my "I was there" moment.
Exactly. In a "this is for the future" way.
This is the way.
I was here too!
I wasn't here.... wait crud
Me too, it’s amazing to see how quickly Lemmy is growing now
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What the hell ? Feels like it was sitting at 30k just a couple days ago, insane growth.
Pretty sure Lemmy is getting a ton of reddit users now that they pretty much ruined the user experience by making 3rd party app developers to pay money to use their api.
I just created an account here... I won't be returning to reddit!
Welcome to the Fediverse. To acknowledge your arrival, please accept the Lemmy Lemon Basket award.
🍋🧺
Went from lurker to user today actually. It wasn't even the apps it was just the awful attitude towards users.
And still silent on the status of Meta defederation.
It's not federated yet anyway.
I believe Ruud has stated elsewhere (on Mastodon or whatever it is called) that they won't do anything preemptively, but they're keeping a close eye on what Meta does.
Okay. Thanks for the update 👍
First, it is not just lemmy, it is the fediverse (replying to you from kbin.social - my preferred cup of tea). Second, I see that the mostly good people/posters are leaving Reddit, I do not see, for example, personal attacks when people disagree here in fediverse, I see no removed/moderated comments or posts. I am sure it happens here too, it is just so rare… it reminds me of the days of mass migration from digg. So, at least for now I think this is great, and it separates people who are ready to stand for principles from the rest. Welcome.
Yea so far it's great. I'd imagine once it's easier to access, well see a slow decline in quality discourse and content, but that's all things, so I'm just enjoying the moment tbh.
The third party app I used for reddit said that this is the platform they were going to focus on. That's why I came. Those are the people I want to support. The people that make the experience better. Once they release an app I'll buy it first day
Sync for reddit show such message, can't waut for it to switch to Lemmy.
Also feel free to support Lemmy itself by donating to the project
Yep, same. That's why I'm here now. On the Connect app though, but it feels similar to Sync.
Hmm... are you here for boost? That's why I joined Lemmy!
Just a week and a half ago, we were celebrating going from #2 to #1 most populous instance. And just 2 weeks before that, I had no idea what a lemmy was.
It's like catching a nice surf wave.
Good for you lemmy.world, congrats!
BTW, lemmy.world is #1 in the node sort by total users at the-federation.info
Now the trick is to keep the instance running well with that crazy high user load.
The devs have been working their butts off. They make post with complete transparency about their growing pains. The devs of leemy.world and others get together and troubleshoot as a team, especially lemmy.ml. everything is posted on GitHub. It's awesome to see and support. I've been here for about four weeks now, and it has been fun to watch it grow, and participate in the user community.
I'm not going back to Reddit, that's for sure. Unless...they come up with an i486 theme...🤔
Me neither!
That makes three of us!
Very happy to be part of this community - feels like home to me!
The reposting has gotten to a whole new level, and the amount of content pulled straight from tiktok and twitter has increased. Also started to see some very uncanny subreddits climbing into r/all.
I'm done loading that place all together pretty much.
I like Kbin better, but I am happy and proud to contribute to this rapidly expanding family of communities that repudiates control by megacorps and Big Tech.
The great thing is that there's no competition between lemmy and kbin. We can use whichever we prefer and still have access to all the same communities.
Can you explain what the difference is other than they are separated instances?
Lemmy and Kbin are actually completely different apps, like Lemmy and Mastadon, but they can federate with each other through the Activity Pub protocol, and they both happen to be aiming to be Reddit replacements. (Kbin is also aiming to have some Twitter-like functionality as well.) I like the way Kbin sorts its posts better, but I like Lemmy's terminology more. I don't mind either of their UI.
It's different software displaying the content. Like if you used either Outlook, Gmail, or Thunderbird to show email. You can go to kbin.social and compare it to what you've got. There's also a bunch of scripts posted in kbinStyles to further customize the looks (that might be wrapped into later versions of kbin perhaps).
From my limited understanding they're all based on activitypub, so the way we interact and generate content is the same. The difference is the UI and implementation of features outside of activitypub
It's amazing how well it handles the load now compared to just a few weeks before
Not only is Rudd doing and amazing job as admin of the instance, they are also really transparent ab ob it the challenges in their frequent updates!
Glad to be enjoying this community and the way it's growing. Love not having ads and being free from corporate greed
Glad to be part of the growth. Congrats! 🎇
glad to be a part of this community!
This is awesome!!! Glad to be here before the first 100k and before the change to Voyager from WefWef.
This is the place to be. I'm hoping some communities jump over. I've seen a few use discord that is not a good replacement at lol.
It's been handled amazingly well on the whole, too!
we should all unite and fk u/spez
Very nice! Long may it continue.
Really excited to see how this platform develops
Fantastic!
Can I count on 100K "Barbie" ticket sales from everyone here on Lemonworld then? (Only in theaters July 21st)
Maybe not from Lemmy.World but definitely with all the other Lemmy sites in the Fediverse.
Wife and I considering it and we are not movie going people.
FYI: Fediverse = One account let's you comment/vote on other Lemmy sites
Yay
(Omg I got a reply from a movie star!!)
I am so proud of you.
LOL
BTW, aren't you on strike too or are you still getting work in Australia?
Strike.
Congrats on the milestone! @[email protected] would it be possible (if you haven't done so already) to make one for Lemmy usage across all instances (or at least the major ones)?
Thanks! It'll be really nice to see how many people are giving Lemmy a good try.
Long live lemmy, and death to Reddit!
Vlemmy refugees flocking in?
Fk yea!
Impressive and amazing. I expect the Fediverse will continue to grow - in terms of users, content and engagement. It is like a breath of fresh air compared with the legacy social media.
3 comments per user...
Checks profile
Sounds about right...
I like the i386 theme
I hope it picks up speed so i get more content like on reddit but..yeah. im very happy with the switch and its only been a day for me.
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I'm doing my part!
Congrats, ya'll! 🥳
I was here!!!!
Let's go!!
It seems like it just got hacked. it just redirects now. RIP.
And I'm all here for it!
Happy to be a part of this.
Awesome :D
Just a beginning my friends
Niceeee, lets go to 1mil. Although not sure how some community members will react to the threads issue. I saw many people did not like the fact you have not yet decided to defederate
@MicroWave Wow it has grown very quickly. Last time I checked a few weeks ago I think it was around 30k
Wait, this instance only started on June 1? How did it grow so quickly compared to the rest?
A lot of subreddits moved to Lemmy.world so in turn I think a lot of the reddit migration ended up here (myself included). Mastodon.world already had a large user base so it probably just made sense to rely on their new lemmy instance to handle the new users. Other instances like lemmy.ml sort of froze new signups at the time so that also funneled more users this way.
It was the first to throw some real money behind it's server infrastructure. A month ago most Lemmy instances - even the "big" ones ran on $10 a month 2 vCPU VPSs.
There was another influx early in June when the API changes were announced but before the blackouts even happened.
Most instances with public signups started struggling but Lemmy.world launched and Ruud upgraded the server hardware almost daily to keep up.
Other instances even had to pause signups from time to time but world kept working and so gobbled up most signups on those days.
Once it got to be a top 3 instance and then top 2 and then first it became a self sustaining snowball as a lot of people chose the biggest instance by default.
Being general-purpose, having easy sign-up without needing an "application" or manual approval, and having decent reliability/uptime.
<3 you guys are great, truly. Love talking with you.
Let's go! :D
Very happy for Lemmy.world.
I have accounts on both Lemmy.ca and Lemmy.world and have been using both the past few weeks as servers struggled to handle the influx of users.
Not sure where I will end up but it's nice to have choices and so good to see the success.
Feels great to be a part of this community, it's so nice to see how much it's grown since the start!
Sucks for beehaw
What happened with them?
At the beginning of the great migration, they got overwhelmed by troll harras accounts, that used lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works open registration to evade bans. A lot of vile stuff got posted (like photos of murdered drag queens). They decided to defederate from both instances temporarily until they have better mod tools. I don't think it was necessary but they do that they think is the best for their community. At that point Beehaw had some of the best communities through and many people were angry to get kicked out for something that wasn't their fault.
Oh wow.. Thanks for the background info. I've seen people here saying negative things about beehaw, and didn't know exactly why.
Its mostly because they defederated from lemmy.world. Meaning you dont really get to interact with them. You can see their posts and comments, they cant see yours.