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Lemmy.world has grown by about 66.6% since reddit's API shutdown (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.

Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.

So, welcome reddit expats!

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[-] mycoxadril@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So what’s happening over at Reddit? I assume all is still well over there. But after ten plus years, I actually haven’t been over there since Apollo died because I’ve just been busy and scrolling here before bed instead of the old Reddit browser.

I assume it’s business as usual and it didn’t implode, but honestly it’s been like three days since I’ve been there and that’s probably one of my longer streaks without casually browsing at some point in the day.

[-] Xylight@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, basically nothing has changed. However, after switching to Lemmy I've noticed the quality of the content is higher

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The bean posts are definitely more thoughtful here.

[-] mycoxadril@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I use wefwef and for me the scrolling is similar to Apollo and scratches the itch. I am struggling, though, with subscribing to communities and curating my feed. But also remembering my Reddit feed took years to curate so trying to be patient. I just find more hoops to jump through here to get to the content I want to view (discounting the bugginess of things because I understand it’s new and they’re sorting it out still).

Bummer there wasn’t a bigger visible hit to Reddit for their shenanigans, but I am glad that more content creators have migrated and more interesting things are also appearing in the feed I have been working on here. It is very green and clunky, but also feels fresh!

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Well I tried lemmy a number of years ago and it was a ghost town. I hardly found anything I wanted to read and Reddit had it all. Now I'm back and I've noticed a lot more content. Others might notice too when they come to check it out. From this, I suspect we will see growth.