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!

  • syl@programming.devEnglish
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    2 years 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.

  • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years 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.

  • TheSaneWriter@vlemmy.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Indeed. It makes sense it was laggy during the upscaling, but it’s stabilized now and it’s great to see how well Lemmy has grown. The other thing I’ve notes is development is currently proceeding at a frenzied pace, it feels like every few days a new feature is added, either in the main service or in the multitude of apps being developed.

  • leyland1989@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I actually don’t mind the smaller user base on Lemmy at all.

    First work day since shutdown, I survived without Reddit, I’m sure I can continue doing so. Lemmy has plenty of potential yet already “good enough” to take Reddit’s place.

    • khapyman@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That’s the funniest thing - I’m one of those senile Digg to Reddit people. Digg to Reddit was something I felt and dreaded. Reddit to Lemmy was a relief. There is not as much to click but everything is worth a click.

  • mycoxadril@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years 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.

      • mycoxadril@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years 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.worldEnglish
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          2 years 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.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

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

    • loz@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      “Eternal torture and suffering is one thing, but I cannot tolerate greedy little pig boys.” - Satan

  • vladmech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years 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!)