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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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[-] syl@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Friendly reminder that lemmy is still being actively developed. There will be many performance improvements in the future, as well as UI and whatnot. Stick around, create content and engage with your communities.

[-] lemmy@linkopath.com 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed! The only way to make sure that we can hit "critical mass" (the point in which content is relatively the same as on Reddit), is to continue what we did over there, and more. Most of us were lurkers on Reddit (me included). We now have to generate the content that most bots, mods, and superuser did for us. This allows us to get the links and content that we enjoyed reading and interacting with on Reddit.

[-] Strangian@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

🔫 Always have been

[-] Wrincewind@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Do you wanna be?

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We are all content on this blessed day!

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[-] capital@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Hail Satan.

[-] 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.

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

This feels like Reddit from 2010. Not the interface, but like the feel of discovering a new link aggregator.

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

I mostly visited r/All so the "All" feed works for me

[-] cheeseblintzes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have just missed discourse with real humans.

[-] justdoit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Truly have no idea if this or other similar projects will succeed long-term, but I do think that any alternative puts much needed pressure on social media companies to stop sucking ass.

Here’s to hoping it keeps growing. Gonna need content other than beans though.

[-] i2ndshenanigans@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Every platform has their “bean” content. I spent enough time on Reddit to have dealt with the constant “the narwhal bacons at midnight” comments we used to deal with.

[-] vladmech@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I used Redact to edit out all my Reddit posts and deleted my accounts when Apollo died. Bring on the distributed communities! (Also this is weird and new and I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing, but it's exciting!)

[-] taanegl@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Number of the bean.

[-] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy world domination continues - I've noticed in the last few days the world communities on each topic have all surged into first place in subscriber numbers.

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

I was using Bacon Reader for Android for the last 10 years. For me it was the only way of using Reddit. I'm now checking Lemmy. I hope we can build a vibrant community here. I'm not coming back to Reddit.

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

RiF being killed was the last straw for me and Reddit.

They just don't care so long as they are making money. I was doxxed twice last year thanks to two different user on a fandom I moderated. They didn't care that I was openly DOXed, pretty much them saying that it wasn't their problem.

They just don't care about people, just how much trouble they will get in and how much money is to be made.

So this whole "only money matters" ideal is a symptom of a larger issue that is going to get worse.

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[-] smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

Same. Used AlienBlue for a short while until I got an Android phone. Then moved to Bacon Reader for the following decade.

Reddit is effectively dead to me. Without BR there is simply no way for me to interact with the site, plus I go out of my way to avoid reddit.com in search results.

Maybe it doesn't matter, but I like to think it does for their traffic statistics.

[-] venusenvy47@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's the app I used exclusively. Have you found a Lemmy app that is similar? I've tried Jerboa, Connect and Liftoff, but I'm still looking for something comparable to BaconReader.

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[-] solarzones@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

That’s great but 66.6%? Time to conspire!

[-] rockyrikoko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Praise be to the dark lord!

[-] kevtav@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I feel it, can barely reply from all the errors being thrown.

[-] CyberBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Popular instances like lemmy.world have felt a lot of growing pains recently.

I've made a secondary account at sh.itjust.works for enhanced shit posting capabilities, since it seems to be more responsive at the moment.

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[-] Tacobenderyay@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Lfg!!!!! Proud to be apart of this new chapter

[-] NoRezervationz@lemmy.website 1 points 1 year ago

That's great news! Lemmy is a great, if but a little buggy, replacement for Reddit. I'm sure the bugs will be ironed out in due time. I'm enjoying the federated community. The more the merrier!

[-] amaryllisunicorn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

With care and love we can build a new and better reddit

[-] Elcapitan786@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nice growth, looks to be slowing down a little - I wonder how much is related to the poor performance last few days

[-] trifictional@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I am one of those users.

Don't even feel the need to go back to reddit. This platform is going to take off.

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