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!

  • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • amanaftermidnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • murk02@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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!

    • OctopusKurwa @lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Calzoner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, its already a good amount of content. People reply, people upvote, people post interesting articles. Its filling the void for me already.

  • Yaks@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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. ☺

  • Possible_EmuWrangler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Well I’m new here so there’s one more data point. I figure if this thing doesn’t bug out, continues to function and servers can handle growth, it’s got no reason to shrink.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I’m curious to check stuff like that, but I’m refusing. Just checking it counts as traffic, and I don’t want them to mistake my morbid curiosity for me still using it.

  • Machefi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I didn’t believe this would happen. I thought all who wanted to migrate have done this already and there would be maybe a couple hundred people joining us today. I’m glad I was wrong. Gives me hope in people of the Internet standing up for what they deserve.

    • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Cornfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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.

      • FarLine99@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Find your favorite communities, ask questions, post memes. Feel as at home ❤️

  • ThatGuyFromWork@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • cantsurf@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I share your opinion. I’m optimistic about the migrations away from twitter, reddit, and facebook. This is a great opportunity for the improvement and democratization of social networks. The more that people move to open source platforms and the more that people demand control of their data, the better!