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!

  • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]English
    282•2 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]English
    190•2 years ago

    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!

  • @[email protected]English
    125•2 years ago

    First comment for me! 11 years on Reddit, never talked much but lurked a lot. I can’t use their official app so I’m here now and looking forward to see the community grow!

  • @[email protected]English
    60•2 years ago

    Honestly, its already a good amount of content. People reply, people upvote, people post interesting articles. Its filling the void for me already.

  • MachefiEnglish
    54•2 years 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      26•2 years 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      19•2 years ago

      I fully converted yesterday because I was holding out hope that reddit would do the right thing.

      We vote with our dollars and our actions. Consider this a vote for freedom.

    • @[email protected]English
      12•2 years ago

      I made a Lemmy account a couple weeks ago and started getting familiar with the fediverse. Then I decided to create a different user on Lemmy.world so I think I registered this one yesterday.

      For the last 30 days I’ve still used Reddit because it has the most activity and it’s been like “this is the last time!!” kinda feels. But now I’ve discovered wefwef, and I’m not going to be using Reddit anymore so here I am.

      I think a lot of people are similar…nostalgia and ease of use kept everyone mostly using Reddit and now the people who care about the whole issue will start contributing here.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•2 years 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.

    • BedSharkPal
      6•2 years ago

      The sooner we realize corporate control of social media was a massive mistake, the better the world will be. Imagine if corporate social media algos that drive engagement through ragebaiting hadn’t existed for the last 10 years…

  • trouser_mouseEnglish
    45•2 years ago

    This is beautiful to see - I understand Reddit is a company that needs to make a profit, but the way they have treated their users and unpaid staff is shocking (but not unexpected). The fact it also heavily impacts users with additional accessibility requirements is terrible.

    Will be fun in a way to watch Reddit try to claw back what has happened.

    Give it 12 months it will likely be a wreck along with the current CEO who will probably be given the boot.

    I’m old enough to have seen many services go through this: AOL, MSN, MySpace, Fark, Slashdot, Digg, Something Awful, etc. Reddit (and maybe Twitter) are just next in line to realise they are not too big to fail. Hopefully followed by Meta.

  • @[email protected]English
    42•2 years ago

    As a new user from reddit, wanted to say thanks for welcoming us and working hard to accommodate us!

    • ijeffEnglish
      16•2 years ago

      Lots of us new folks around! Also great there are so many apps being developed for Lemmy. Although the web UI is also pretty good.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•2 years ago

        I’ve seen so many helpful posts since joining yesterday, thank you to everyone for welcoming all of us, keeping servers running, posting helpful info on how to Lemmy, etc. - Happy to have a new home!

  • deweydecibelEnglish
    37•2 years ago

    You can definitely feel it.

    Scotty, divert power to stabilizers.

  • @[email protected]English
    33•2 years ago

    Both twitter, and reddit (maybe twitch and youtube) going to shit is perfect timing