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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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[-] Machefi@lemmy.world 1 points 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.ca 1 points 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.world 0 points 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.world 1 points 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.world 2 points 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.

this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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