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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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! 🍻
I’m finding that quite a lot of communities exist, they just take more work at the moment.
For me, I’ve found a uk community but cannot post due to signing up to .world. creating an extra account doesn’t send the verification email.
I see all this of teething problems tho as was always the case with reddit.
I assume you’ve worked it out by now but you do not need a second account! Unless you want to move off .world to something smaller and less laggy ofc which I would definitely understand 😅
I’m finding that quite a lot of communities exist, they just take more work at the moment.
For me, I’ve found a uk community but cannot post due to signing up to .world. creating an extra account doesn’t send the verification email.
I see all this of teething problems tho as was always the case with reddit.
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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.
Honestly, its already a good amount of content. People reply, people upvote, people post interesting articles. Its filling the void for me already.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If Spez was secretly trying to sabotage Reddit and boost Lemmy, would he have even done anything differently?
Spez the hero of Lemmy
Praise /u/spez! /s
But fuck you, u/spez 😆
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!
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0.18.1, guy
I’m not your guy, pal.
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!
Someone should post this in r/UpliftingNews
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. ☺
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! 🍻
I’m finding that quite a lot of communities exist, they just take more work at the moment. For me, I’ve found a uk community but cannot post due to signing up to .world. creating an extra account doesn’t send the verification email. I see all this of teething problems tho as was always the case with reddit.
I think you might’ve run into another teething problem. This comment seems to be posted 8 times a few minutes apart.
Yeah, i notice that and tried to cleanup a bit. I think you’re correct tho, it was probably a teething issue
I assume you’ve worked it out by now but you do not need a second account! Unless you want to move off .world to something smaller and less laggy ofc which I would definitely understand 😅
I’m finding that quite a lot of communities exist, they just take more work at the moment. For me, I’ve found a uk community but cannot post due to signing up to .world. creating an extra account doesn’t send the verification email. I see all this of teething problems tho as was always the case with reddit.
What was preventing you from posting there? It should work fine if you search for that community from your current instance (lemmy.world).
Not sure tbh, it works now. Maybe teething issues at the start or user error.
So glad to see Lemmy get big