1000 users!
lemmy.world just reached 1000 users.
Please remember that the server was created June 1st! So still might notice some startup issues... but so far so good! Welcome @all!
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lemmy.world just reached 1000 users.
Please remember that the server was created June 1st! So still might notice some startup issues... but so far so good! Welcome @all!
At this rate we'll hit 2000 in the next hour...
You can thank reddit CEO lol, he just held the most pathetic AMA I've seen, people are even angrier than before :D
p.s. also watch out for next Monday, that's when the reddit blackout begins
Are you personally paying the server costs? How can we help subsidize?
Ah. There's a donation link on the front page. Just set up a recurring donation.
I would totally donate for running costs.
At this point you will be probably the biggest instance before the start of the new week 😂
Well let's see if it doesn't crash before that. I can scale the hardware but not sure about scaling the software yet..
Since the front end is TS docker it should be easy to scale with kubernetes. I have no idea about the rust backend though.
Yes but there's no scaling that helps bad queries :-)
Is there somewhere the numbers are tracked?
I use grafana for that. Might make that public someday
This makes me happy for Lemmy, lemmy.world, and of course Grafana is amazing
Yes. You can find the info in the sidebar
aiii whoooo!
My first comment, can't wait to use Lemmy for the next 15 years.
Fuck /u/spez!
Ah, you must also have been part of the original Digg exodus then?
Yes but I actually liked Kevin, I enjoyed all the side video podcast and skits they did on the side.
Oh yeah the whole gang was great for a while, until it all got fucked.
I still dream of tikibar TV once and awhile
And slashdot before that. Narwhals and whisky and all that. But we don't talk about usenet. And here we are again.
PS it's way too easy to accidentally block people on here. And then I had to go to a deeply buried settings page to unblock you again.
Thanks for the unblock. And hey, you learned something new. I'm actually thinking of going back on Usenet.
Why only 15 years?! Why can do better!
Great thing about fediverse, maybe @ruup goes full blown tyrannical, we can go over to another server.
If it's possible to build perpetual social media, this is how it would look
I can Digg this place
Hello fellow Digg refugee.
Over 2k5 already. Stats page says 2.52k
Yup, that's how fast it goes!
where can I see the stats?
At least on the mobile web page, there is a button near the top of the page that says Sidebar. That will give basic stats like total users on the instance.
Is this where the cool kids are hanging these days? (Just joined as a refugee from that other place)
No just the grumpy old people. 😄
Dammit! Why does everywhere I go turn out to be where the grumpy old people hang out?
Oh...
It's a mystery!
Just noticed lemmy.world is now 1 of the 4 instances recommended on join-lemmy. Congratulations on that too!
Just signed up myself! Long time RIF/old.reddit user, hoping to find new (better!) communities. Hello everyone!
Same here! ✊
👋
Hello fellow reddit refugees. Very interested in learning Lemmy and figuring out how contribute to the community.
Good evening! All new to me too! Looking forward to figuring things out for a new start!
That's great! I remember just a few days ago that it had only 100 users, it's growing quickly!
Wasn't it at like 200 just 2-3 days ago? That's a massive increase!
Yeah the server was just installed June 1st. Growth is crazy.
(But I've seen crazier with mastodon.world, which had 4000 new users per hour at the peak..
There is still time to see that sort of growth on here, particularly when reddit goes dark next week or shortly after that
appreciate you providing this service ♥️
It seems a bit laggy to me, but that's hardly surprising. I hope we can form a good little community of outsiders here! 👍
Can you tell me what's laggy? Only thing I noticed is the 'Post' or 'Reply' that takes too long.
Pretty much everything has a bit of lag on my end. Not complaining, I understand why, just letting you know.
The post thing is weird. Even when I'm on lemmy.world, but post on communities from other instances it seems pretty fast. But posting on a local community is slow. Very weird. Locks on a table somewhere?
Seeing the same behaviour here.
I get the same delay posting from this instance to @beehaw as well... :(
I'm guessing it's the larger instances that are lagging due to the sudden amount of users that have joined.
Most new users tend to join the bigger ones and that exacerbates the problem.
Edit: This comment took ~8 seconds.
@fedcon @lemmyworld that's my guess as well, same thing with Mastadon
I'm still taking some time to post but it's certainly better than before your upgrade.
EDIT: Still ~10 seconds or so for this comment.
Yeah, that's gonna need some troubleshooting...
The first thing I commented this morning seemed faster but of course once I mention it I jinx myself and it's about the same as it was, for me anyway. Doesn't bother me too much though, I know it's a new thing and a learning curve for everybody.
I'm a noob at this but could the distance between the user and the server location have an effect? Of course the latancy shouldn't be 10 sec but if there is some wonky routing going on idk. As I said I'm very nob at this
Replying takes a good 6 or 7 seconds for me right now.
Hi from beehaw! Welcome to the fediverse and glad to have all of you join us!
Just made a new general Star Wars community! I have no idea how to grow something like that, so any Star Wars fans come on over and help!
You should link it
Congrats! Thanks for accepting me. I can't wait to see where this site goes!
That's great. Is this like the main page or what?
Another Reddit refugee here. I guess after June 30th member numbers will explode?
I hope. So far my friends seem hesitant to leave Reddit.
They don't have to leave leave. They can just join here and reduce the time they give reddit. Little by little they can just get out of that and into other stuff.
Ah, give it time. Change is scary. And it is easy to be complacent. But 'luckily' Reddit will chase them to here.
I think the biggest impediment (besides the learning curve of the new format) is the fact that there are many more users and much more activity on Reddit. It will take time to build enough of a user base on lemmy to convince people to join.
That being said, the subreddit blackout starting June 12th will remove that advantage for Reddit. Even if most of the subreddits only participate for 48 hours, that might be sufficient to drive enough people to lemmy that it becomes perceived as a viable alternative.
Fingers crossed!
Congrats!! That's quite a milestone in such a short period :)
Edit: sorry if this is not the proper place to ask but is there a way to donate for server expenses?
I just added donation info to the sidebar, see home page.
Great! thanks
What are the running costs like?
At this moment around 20 EUR/mo so not too much, but would like to be able to scale when needed.
Gotcha. Keep up the good work!
Omg nice! Glad to join the ranks!
Yeehaw!
How can we make it 2000?
I'm doing my part. Just joined. The king is dead. Long live the king!
おはようございます
おはようございます！！
こんにちは
はじめまして。ウェストフォドです。よろしくおねがいします。
よろしくお願いいたします。
Finally managed to create an account! Phew… Hi Folks
Glad to be here for the party!
We're glad to have you! Here is your champagne 🥂
Hi everyone, another Reddit migrant. I've been playing around a few Lemmy communities with my Mastodon account but got fed up with Mastodon's interface for interacting with Lemmy communities and decided to join a real instance. Lemmy.world seems like a pretty cool place in the Threadiverse, thanks for having me!
To the
moonworld!Congrats! I like the vibe here
Holy shit. Congratulations I guess? 😄
Fun times. Glad to be here!
newest user of lemmy.world here!
I'm the new kid on the block, hello old timer!
Wow that was quick! Go us 🥳
You're doing great bud! If you need help LMK!
Congratulations!
Hurray! My first post here
Welcome!
Just joined myself, I have a feeling there will be an even bigger influx of users soon.
Excited to see where it will all go!
Hi folks, just joined Lemmy to see what it's all about. This seemed like a good thread (is that the term?) to make a first comment :-)
Sure is! Welcome to the club!
Cheers! Looking forward to find out more, feels very promising already.
Community's very small at the time, but it'll get larger with time
Great to see the progress!
Mildly Infuriating has nearly hit that milestone too! I am so excited for the future of Lemmy! GG everyone! 👍😄
You must be very proud
Great to be here folks!
That's great news!
Weird question are you the same person who made the Dash-to-Dock extension for gnome?
No, that wasn't me.
Congrats! Hope it only grows from here
Congrats! Excited to be here and see it all start!
Am I indirectly supporting lemmy devs by being on lemmy.world? I'd rather not be supporting tankies.
Just by using their software. They have no other involvement in this server.
congrats!
Hello world! Came over from reddit. Excited to try something new
Ohi~
wohoo glad to be here
Very cool! Are there any plans for a mobile app?
There's already a mobile app for the entire Lemmy community though, and it's Jerboa
Not the person who asked, but thanks for this, just installed it and it's great!
If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask!
How do you log in on the app?
Edit, nvm got it
Thanks, will do!
Actually, if you don't mind, can you say a little about linking? I don't really undey the format with the exclamation mark at the start and then the rest in the same format as an email. If I wanted to link to this community for example what is the link?
I think to link, the format's !communityname@homeinstance. For example, this community is, I think, ![email protected] (I might be wrong tho, but that format works for me)
Thanks
What instance do I use btw
Okay, since your home instance is lemmy.world (think of the instances as your home "continent"), you should use lemmy.world as your instance
That worked thanks