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!
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It’s so wonderful that Reddit, by making a decision that benefits no user/mod/sub, and actively harms users/mods/subs, all in the name of corporate greed, gave Lemmy the boost it needed to become a viable alternative to Reddit.
Thank you, Spez. We couldn’t have done this without you.
Spez the hero of Lemmy
Praise /u/spez! /s
But fuck you, u/spez 😆
Hail Spez!
If Spez was secretly trying to sabotage Reddit and boost Lemmy, would he have even done anything differently?
Given Spez extreme incompetence, he probably would have introduced a great new app and removed all ads
Give the Lemmy app devs another week or so. And for now, keep testing.
Give the Lemmy app devs another week or so. And for now, keep testing.
Fly a kite 😀🪁
Into a spooky forest
With tenderloin underwear.
In hell! 🔥🔥
Yes... Yes he can
spez a real one fr
We definitely felt the ship groaning through all this. Thankfully the Ruud-er skillfully navigated through this, and the software update on top.
Anyways, welcome to Lemmy 17!
0.18.1, guy
I’m not your guy, pal.
I’m not your pal, mate.
He's not your mate, budday.
I'm not your budday, muchacho.
I'm not your muchacho, partner
Hopefully this doesn't interrupt the flow, but I definitely read this in Jamie Tartt's voice.
Ahh, look at that reply string we started. It's feeling like home around here already.
And my axe!
Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
You get a lemon, that's the best I can do.
🍋
You took it too far
Oh God lol
And not a moment too soon!
Would it be too dramatic to say it's changed my life?
It made me whole again
Yeah, it was REALLY weird bug!
As fellow former Redditors we should understand server issues
First comment for me! 11 years on Reddit, never talked much but lurked a lot. I can’t use their official app so I’m here now and looking forward to see the community grow!
Just registered about a week ago, Lemmy feels like Reddit was like when Digg died.
I mostly lurked on Reddit too but I've been trying to engage with this place as much as possible in order to help it grow.
Just registered about a week ago, Lemmy feels like Reddit was like when Digg died.
Just registered about a week ago, Lemmy feels like Reddit was like when Digg died.
I see we still have repeating comments around here lol
Yeah, it happened with one of mine too. It's like Connect had a seizure or something. Might happen with this one as well
Yeah, it happened with one of mine too. It's like Connect had a seizure or something
I'm in a similar boat. Was a big lurker on Reddit for a decade and finally made the switch once Apollo went down. Really like the vibe of Lemmy so far!
created by creator
deleted by deleter
Funny thread 😁
Why was my message deleted?
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Is this just a pun or is there a way to support this instance? (Is that the right word for lemmy.world? Still trying to figure this out a little)
In the Lemmy.world homepage sidebar there is a link to the donation page.
Thanks!
Of course m’lady.
Not a joke, you can support @ruud using the mastodon.world Patreon or OpenCollective. See the below blog post for more:
https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world
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Honestly, its already a good amount of content. People reply, people upvote, people post interesting articles. Its filling the void for me already.
I didn't do it till last minute cause I'm lazy and hate creating accounts for every little thing these days (though I definitely prefer a new account than login with Google or whatnot). However I loved Reddit is Fun and the CEO has made some less than satisfactory decisions so it was time to pull up stakes and move on, again, though 15 years since the Digg move it had it's time, now for something else. I thought it was amusing I didn't even realize spez was the CEO till this recent but, I just always saw him posting but never commenting so I ignored him years ago. Figure you should do more than spam links on these sites.
I fully converted yesterday because I was holding out hope that reddit would do the right thing.
We vote with our dollars and our actions. Consider this a vote for freedom.
I made a Lemmy account a couple weeks ago and started getting familiar with the fediverse. Then I decided to create a different user on Lemmy.world so I think I registered this one yesterday.
For the last 30 days I’ve still used Reddit because it has the most activity and it’s been like “this is the last time!!” kinda feels. But now I’ve discovered wefwef, and I’m not going to be using Reddit anymore so here I am.
I think a lot of people are similar…nostalgia and ease of use kept everyone mostly using Reddit and now the people who care about the whole issue will start contributing here.
WefWef is incredible. Developer is a beast!
I accessed reddit through the Sync app and actually didn't realise it was just going to stop working. I'm still not really sure what's going on here, this is my first experience of the fediverse. I like learning new things.
The sync dev is working on a sync for lemmy, I think he said aiming for 4 weeks. He made a channel in his discord for info.
Could you share the link for the discord?
Me too. When sync stopped working it was the kick in the pants I needed.
I used the official app once today and just felt dirty.
I haven't even tried the official app, i went onto the website to look at the Sync sub just to check it wasn't a temporary bug or anything and saw a load of links to here so thought I'd check it out.
Find your favorite communities, ask questions, post memes. Feel as at home ❤️
The sooner we realize corporate control of social media was a massive mistake, the better the world will be. Imagine if corporate social media algos that drive engagement through ragebaiting hadn't existed for the last 10 years...
What a great perspective -- let the good times roll!
Hell yeah
Hello, it's me, a reddit refugee 🎶
Oh hi Mark
I didn't know it was you.
Old or new, we welcome you!
Wellcum ❤️
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.
As a new user from reddit, wanted to say thanks for welcoming us and working hard to accommodate us!
spez is unironically the best thing to happen to Lemmy lmao.
Welcome newcomers to the fediverse!
Let's do things right on this new fediverse
Kinda silly to think we'd get it right there first time? To learning, moving upward, and a brighter Internet.
Other than google/wikipedia, what are some other resources to learn more in depth as to what the feeiverse is? If there are any, that is. Unless its just "heres the name, go learn"
https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/ Check this as a start. Check some more in-depth links on the page. ❤️❤️❤️
thank yiu very much, will read when i get the chance
This is a nice start: https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/
Edit oh and https://fediverse.info/ too
Brilliant, thank you. Will look when I get the chance.
You can definitely feel it.
Scotty, divert power to stabilizers.
Are you watching Strange New Worlds?
As a diehard Trekkie since 1987, I can say it’s already one of my top 3 shows
Hard agree, first true trek we got after 2000
Lower Decks and Prodigy aren't standard Trek but they're both fantastic, too.
A. They have a live orchestra performing quite a bit of the score, like old Trek. Makes a difference
B. They’re having fun
C. The characters work
D. Pike is sexy af
It’s a great Trek show.
Pike is just “ok”. His hair, on the other hand…
It was way better than expected, i am enjoying it a lot. Don't forget to go check out the communities over at startrek.website!
Not OP but you just convinced me to give Strange New Worlds a try, so thanks!
Same, it's downloading now haha.
What do you think so far? I've been loving Strange New Worlds!
I haven't had a chance to watch any episodes yet, but it looks pretty interesting. The kids like to hog the TVs on summer break haha.
Hooray! Let me know what you think
Came back to this thread to say I LOVE Strange New Worlds so far! I liked Picard well enough, but just couldn't get into Discovery after a couple tries, though I can't articulate why (???). SNW seems to hit just right.
Might as well drop some links here for the star trek instance.
![email protected]
https://startrek.website/c/startrek
![email protected]
https://startrek.website/c/risa
Also
https://kbin.social/m/StarTrek
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. ☺
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.
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
Both twitter, and reddit (maybe twitch and youtube) going to shit is perfect timing
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.
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.
Exciting to see it growing!
Welcome to all you new folks! Water is great!
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.
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.
Just made the jump - this is my first comment on Lemmy. Here's to a solid alternative!
I know its only one data point, but I just logged on to see how many people were online in a sub i used to frequent and it was down 30-50%, the lowest numbers i've seen all year.
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!
Immigrant from Reddit is Fun here.
I found the comment that mentioned Summit is quite close to RIF helpful, so here I am!
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!
Hi, my name is power2bill. Feels odd to not have RIF on my phone. I'm going to lurk for awhile and make a comment every 2-3 months. Hopefully, new communities pop up that I used to go on from reddit. I'll be here enjoying usefully, and sometimes not useful information. Cheers everyone! 🍻
We're counting today as the first day?
*Happy Canada Day.
The first day post reddit API death, which was what the whole migration was about, so yes, in a fashion.
Yeah, I don't think we can say there is a first day. More like there are waves. We could tentatively say the first one was around the black out. Although, there may have been some smaller waves before that. The next big one is the API-ocalypse. The next big one after that will be when the reddit executives fire their foot shotgun again.
I think there is some merit to saying that a lot of people are stubborn and won't move unless forced. The apps going down today prompted a big wave that's for sure
Maybe yes. Personally it’s not even necessarily about ads for me, it’s the character of the ownership of the platform.
Spez is going the way of Musk and Zuckerbot. It was time to bite the bullet and try something entirely different.
I haven’t quite got the hang of this or Mastodon yet, and it’ll probably take a lot of time, but it’s ticking a whole lot of boxes so far.
Also oddly, you’re even being welcoming. Even the fellow ex redditors. Perhaps it’s refugee mentality. :)
I wanted there to be one big spike when they turned it off. Had my account here ready to go and used sync until it stopped working.
So glad I accidentally signed up on the best server. I don’t regret my decision. Now that I have WefWef, I’m sold. Love it here. Love the server. Love the community and subscribed to multiple communities in the fediverse too. Learning a lot!
I hope I am not missing anything if I joined using lemmy.ml.
Weirdly it's a similar feeling to moving to a way nicer house!
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Weirdly it's a similar feeling to moving to a way nicer house!
It really is lol that's a perfect way to put it.
Floors so clean, you can practically eat off of it!
Hello all you fine Reddit refugees.
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You get my vote for this!
you might say..... Reddfugees?
Sorry.
which client posts in triplicate. Raman spaceship?
Fledditors, anyone?
you might say..... Reddfugees?
Sorry.
you might say..... Reddfugees?
Sorry.
I'm here!!! Fuck Reddit!!
Oh damn, I remember people saying that everybody interested in Lemmy already joined by now. I'm really curious how things will look one week from now
My experience today was Apollo not working, learning about the amazing https://wefwef.app, and now here I am making my first comment. That was easy.
I also highly recommend Memmy: https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD
I bet on the 12th, there were a lot of lurkers on kbin/lemmy. Now that 3rd party mobile app folks are properly being forced off, they are properly making the jump and creating accounts. Welcome, if that's you!
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.
Welcome newcomers to the fediverse!
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!
Joined yesterday day. It's a bit of a learning curve and requires some time to rebuild my "front page". I'm enjoying it so far, haven't stepped foot on Reddit once since then besides my muscle memory launching bacon reader a few times.
Just found out about the wefwef PWA app which is pretty damn good as an Apollo replacement. Hopefully it can be a native iOS app in the future. Definitely made me ease into Lemmy a lot easier. Hope good things for the future.
Wefwef is good stuff, I've been using it for the last couple days and it's working great so far. Connect for Lemmy is good too, I keep switching between them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, sorry for saying this folks, but I regret having deleted my Reddit account...
... before editing all my comments to point to Lemmy.
Had us in the first half...
😁❤️
It did feel good, I have to say.
First comment on Lemmy. Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help us get started?
Glad to be here! Just got to learn the ropes.
Welcome to the new users :)
Reddit expats represent.
I'd like to say glad to bere here, but tbh it makes me sad to leave behind my Reddit account of almost a decade.
Lemmy look promising though (and still slightly confusing :)
I'm glad there's an impetus to change. I have some reservations about the fediverse, but I think it's got the right idea and will evolve into something better itself, or help us learn more about designing social media systems for users.
I burned my 11 year reddit account with edits and it felt liberating.
Give kbin a shot if you find Lemmy confusing. I found it much more approachable personally.
Same. I was 9 years 10 months deep into Reddit, just shy of putting in a dime, all through RiF, and I'll miss some of the super niche communities I found there.
I'm here after ten years with Baconreader. Really sad it's gone, but I'm super hopeful about my future here! If anyone knows of any communities that enjoy watches or fountain pens, let me know!
So glad to see Lemmy get big
Using Wefwef myself and lemmy.zip...both have been snappy as I was accustomed to using Apollo.
And it's really slow.
Man the servers got hit today didn't they!
The future is looking bright
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
Still learning the ropes of it all. I'll try not to be just a lurker like I am ha.
Glad to see folks coming over here, definitely shaping up into a preferable alternative :)
Holy shit
You can really tell, as posts that used to have 1-2 comments now have 4-5. It's nice chatting with y'all
Yay! I haven’t chatted with you, but still saying hello and I hope you have a great weekend.
Just a guy here, but I hope you both have a great week, all the way up to Thursday.
You doing something bad on Thursday?
Has no one told you? Thursday is The Reckoning.
Oh i thought they said Wreckening, thanks for clearing that up. I'd better get my shit together.
Awww, I had my Wrecking Stick all primed and everything.
It’s weirdly exciting to have a fresh start on a new platform. Hoping to see those numbers continue to grow!
What app are you guys using for Lemmy now ? I'm on Jerboa . I find it laggy while scrolling. What's a better alternative?
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!
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
Crazy!! I don't envy the admins lol, tho they're doing a fantastic job in keeping the server up.
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.
I really do love it here.
It's taken a bit to get used to but I'm loving it too
Wefwef is promising; if you liked Apollo it comes pretty close to that experience
Same. Just weird but I'm not used to how iphone does things.
It's my least favorite so far
No idea. I don't mind the default Lemmy ux on Android haha
WefWef is incredible. Developer is beast!
Its amazing how much it looks like a native iOS app
💯💯💯
Trying Connect on Android and it seems to be the best so far. I thought Summit was lacking and Jerboa looks worse imo. This one is just lacking some small qol features that would go a long way like how images and comment threads are handled.
I'm using connect as well, seems like the best of the current options. The way the comments are indented and colored reminds me of one of the Reddit Android apps, maybe relay
I'm also using connect. It's not bad I must say. A few QOL updates and it will be perfect
My long term Reddit app was Sync, so I'm waiting for that to migrate. For now I'm using Jerboa, and it's not too bad.
Yeah, other than Jerboa, most of these apps have been built from scratch or retooled in the last few weeks. I tried Liftoff, it's decent, but I think wefwef is the cream of the crop so far.
WefWef is awesome!
Liftoff on Android has been better than jerboa for me, minor bugs which I'm sure will get fixed. My favorite reddit app was sync tho, so excited to see that when it releases.
First post post-Reddit as well
Cheers Reddit (and all of my Karma). It's great to have a good alternative.
That's a mighty leap.
Slightly off-topic: Can you guys access lemm.ee? It looks all messed up on my end.. @[email protected]
Can you elaborate how it looks messed up? I am writing this comment through lemm.ee without issues.
Sorry, I should have done that. See this: https://imgur.com/a/tJuih4U
EDIT: I have tested it on 3 browsers, one of which saves no cookies/history.. I doubt it is cache related? EDIT2: Tested also on 2 different mobile browsers. Same issue.
That's super strange.. does it even look like this if you open through incognito/private browsing mode?
Also, could you possibly share a screenshot of what is in your browser dev tools console?
I am suffering from the same issue. I opened my browser's devtools and noticed https://lemm.ee/static/e20bfa7/js/client.js is returning 404. So I turned on my VPN into a random other country (I chose Norway), and the issue stopped. Could it be that your CDN is not serving the client.js in some parts of the world?
I have purged my CDN, could I ask you to check if it's still 404 with your original config?
I can confirm it works without a VPN now from my location :). Thank you!
Awesome, thank you for confirming!
Yes.. Switching VPN servers fixed the issue for me. @[email protected]. The trouble I was seeing was on Mullvad Portugal server.
Repeating the other comment just so you get a notification, sorry if you already saw it above:
I have purged my CDN, could I ask you to check if it's still 404 with your original config?
It is working correctly now with the original config in all cases. Problem has been fixed. Thank you!
See here: https://imgur.com/a/L3stg8F
I have tested it on 3 browsers, one of which is incognito. I also tested it on 2 mobile browsers, one of which is incognito. Same thing in all cases.
Honestly, just wait and try again in a few minutes.
Bugs and weird sporadic downtime are to be expected at the moment.
Works fine for me. Try clearing your browser cache.
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
Glad to be here!
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!
Someone should post this in r/UpliftingNews
That’s intense.
This probably happened with every Lemmy server out there.
I was having timeout issues with most that I tried to use.
Today everything seems normal.
And yet fediverse observer is showing declining user count, while server count, comments and posts are growing steadily.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Why?
Very happy to see that such a strong migration is actually happening.
Yup, here I am lemmy.world!
That is a great gain. Awesome.
i'm so glad to be part of the revolution
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.
Is that local members or total users?
Just dropped in after saying goodbye to reddit is fun recently. seeing people move here gives me hope! Excited to see what comes out of this :)
Good for Lemmy.
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Testing:
One of my all time faves!
Such great news about Lemmy.world
lets go
In.
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I'm curious if anyone has made a "Here are the current apps for Lemmy" posts. The last one is a few days old.
Funny that 2 days seems too long ago.
Not just posts, but community - lemmyapps community, check it. Spoiler: Liftoff and WefWef (definetly) are incredible options.
Thank you, I'm currently using Thunder
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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.
WoW that's insane, still lemmy.world is working better than lemmy.ml for me. Good job admins.
Oddly enough, my reddit is fun app is working today after i was force logged out
Looks awesome!
Why is it that Iemmy.world not opening? I'm trying to open it in my phone's Brave browser
So cool!
A warm welcome from Kbin to all Fediverse newcomers.
Haha awesome!
I'm unable to even log into my .world account anymore. So just gonna use my other ones for now.
Nice! That's a lotta growth.
Really enjoying all the extra content and increased buzz of activity! Hope it keeps going up from here.
Lemmy gang rise up!
Awesome!
Is there a way to track the activity change/traffic for Reddit? Especially now, given that 3rd party API access is mostly cut off.
I wouldn't call it the first day of the Reddit migration.
The first day of forced migration.
Welcome to all. This is a great alternative to reddit.
really hope an IOS Lemmy app comes out
Amazing. I’m sure it’ll keep growing too
Awesome! Awesome to the max!
woah
If l.w continues to defed other instances it will become a problem having a glut of people on on instance