• Saintpaul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!

      • caephi@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        yeah it’s important that people post and comment. lurking is only good once there’s a critical mass of content and engagement to sustain that kind of passive browsing. i hope new users will understand it’s early days on this platform and content has to come from somewhere!

  • Sonemonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

    • zeriah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      I haven’t “left” Reddit yet, but I also have been avoiding the site as much as possible. If they’re going to be a terrible site, the least I can do is try to avoid going on and making them money from ads.

      Or at least only doing so at home where I have my PiHole box to remove them.

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      The grass is always greener where one side has grass and the other side is a desolate nuclear wasteland created by the incompetence of the land owner.

  • TRBoom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    This instance gives a clue maybe?

    https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.wiuf.net

    It looks like it’s only a day old and it has 11k users. There isn’t any content on it either. There are a few instances like that, you can see them here: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They all have low MAU, 10k or so users, and low Status Count.

    Quite a few are showing about 10k new users in the past day or so. Probably they’re small instances without bot protection or instances made to support bots.

    • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Can this be reported to those tech savvy enough to know what to do? Fantastic find. These instances might well be preparing bots for attack.

  • ClassyHatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:

    • r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
    • Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.

    Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.

  • NinjiGantoris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Wanted to ditch Reddit following all the nonsense around their API changes, but still wanted Reddit-esque news aggregation + discussions from somewhere.

    Googling for alternatives initially led me to Beehaw, but they don’t have the sufficiently granular niche communities I wanted. Searching for communities I wanted to subscribe to led me here, and after refreshing myself on how the fediverse worked I realised I should just create a login here instead. So far, so good!

  • Grimlo9ic@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there’s lots of instances to spread the burden.

  • cmrn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Got sick of Reddit, looked for alternatives, found sub.rehab, found Lemmy was common… here I am.

  • XYZinferno@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Keep in mind too that the expiration date for many of the mainstream third party Reddit apps is June 30

    Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

    • zikk_transport2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Reddit is already turning into shit. Like literall shit, except it’s digital shit, but still shit.

      Feeling horny? Visit r/horny. Oh wait, that’s christian minecraft discussions!

      Wanna learn something new? Visit r/InterestingAsFuck. Oh wait, that’s interesting porn positions!

      Wanna see what is going in gaming community? Just visit r/steam! Oh wait, it’s choo choo shitwreck powered by steam engines!

      No wonder why people are looking for Reddit alternative, and Lemmy might be just the right option. :)

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

      I’m here now trying to get ahead of it.

  • ShadedCosmos@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    A lot of us haven’t been able to create accounts due to high activity. It looks like account creation requests have finally started going through.

  • hungover_pilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been thinking about joining for the last few weeks. The reason I did today was because the developer of my favorite app (sync) announced they would be releasing a lemmy version