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[–] Sonemonkey@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] cerevant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

A related contributing factor: as instances gain users, more federated content is showing up in all, so new users don’t have to jump through hoops to find it.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Try sorting by "Top Day" if you haven't already

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[–] ClassyHatter@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] YMS@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Good hints, but these events likely were not very relevant.
While Lemmy gained almost 200,000 new users in the last two days, the active users increased by less than 3,000, just about the same as pretty much every two-day period recently. So pretty much all of those new users are inactive. That's not hordes of Redditors coming over and exploring Lemmy, that's hordes of bot and sleeper accounts being created.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

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[–] Saintpaul@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah I learned so much reading other people's comments, so I'm trying to recreate that on this site.

[–] Upvotes_Kills_Birds@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

totally agree. I've been trying to engage more myself to encourage others to do the same

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[–] Protegee9850@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Probably a significant number of bots tbh.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

spez's continued jackassery. I made the switch about 24h ago.

[–] Grant@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The post by the Apollo creator was the final nail for me. It really laid everything out there pretty well. Let it go be Tumblr somewhere

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw that post too. I can’t even begin to imagine the July 1st surge when all 3rd party reddit apps are forced to shut down.

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[–] axce@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…

[–] n8vos@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ljdawson said he was making sync for Lemmy so I signed up

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[–] markr@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I've put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.

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[–] cura@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could it be because r/ModCoord recommended moving to kbin, lemmy etc.?

[–] tj111@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah major mods are now actively promoting the switch to lemmy.

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[–] KuroJ@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/u/spez brought us here.

Thanks spez!

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[–] dan96kid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything in particular happened over there?

[–] dan96kid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To make a long story short... Reddit's doing a DEEPLY UNPOPULAR API change that effectively wipes out 3rd party tools and clients, which sparked site-wide protests. Reddit's CEO is now having a pretty public meltdown and threatening moderators partaking in said protests. Lemmy popped up in a good number of discussions on Reddit in regards to the situation. Queue the start of a mass-exodus of Reddit users and mods to Lemmy

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Gotcha. I'm generally aware of what's going on over there but wasn't sure if a particular post or action caused the big surge today.

[–] Grant@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What caused me to just delete the app and my account is the post by the Apollo creator today. When you see it all put together, it's really shameful how poorly the community, moderators, and devs are treated. It was a huge post and on popular

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[–] potato_pizzareca@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.

[–] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have signed up to so many communities on here with the hope that once Lemmy gets bigger, I can leave the ones I don't actually want to be involved in. I also posted my first-ever meme. Let's contribute to make this a reddit alternative!

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[–] Tired8281@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I signed up and then went to bed. I'm assuming the world took that as a sign and followed me. Or perhaps I should cut down on the hard drugs, idk

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[–] cmrn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] xyzinferno@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] Jakeg@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ve avoided Reddit since Sunday and am missing being able to see what’s going on without having to visit tech blogs/news sites/etc…

Decided might as well make the next jump and propel the death of Dig, I mean reddit

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[–] Dream_state@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone figuring out /u/spez is full of shit

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[–] TheBrainGuy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[–] quazar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

it was reddit banning the mods of /r/mildlyinteresting that had me sign up with lemmy an hour ago.

They are back now, but still

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[–] Typeo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Someone mentioned it on a Reddit post about mods so I'm giving it a go. Stopped Twitter a while back and don't use Facebook. I like the concept of aggregated content around topics I'm interested in just not by evil companies.

[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

not that surprising really - many, MANY people are fed up with centralized link aggregation/social media/reddit in general & the fediverse is an excellent option

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[–] hungover_pilot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

In my opinion, the output of the disastrous Zoom meeting with the moderators & community of /r/Blind .

Reddit leadership made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for their users. They essentially refused to answer essential questions for the disabled Reddit community.

I guess Spez thinks nobody will care as long as they get their fill of GIFs and pics? I have no idea. I'm not closing out my account, but whatever reddit intended to sell to me, I'm not buying it.

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[–] Bisque@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Seems like reddit just fresher. Not clogged up with all the bullshit. Also I feel like I'm on the ground level of a reddit competitor that seems to be protected from corporate bullshit.

[–] Yolohansolo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They’re starting to de-mod folks.

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[–] RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I joined a couple days ago. I decided to just sign up and jump in. Everyone else doing it, why can't I?

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[–] NinjiGantoris@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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!

[–] Poggers@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Stopped using reddit after 12 years when the blackout began, and kept up with the developments through the tech news. Removing the mods and screwing around with things just because they're mad about a protest was the last straw, so now here I am!

[–] GammaScorpii@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Been signing up to reddit alts all week. Finally got to Lemmy.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's the way tech disseminates into the world.

If you've been here for a month or more, you're a first adopter and the true heroes of our cause. You take up what makes no sense to -- what is untested and will likely be a waste of time.

These people then tell the early adopters, which is what you are if you've been here for a couple weeks.

Once we got on board, we told all our friends who join, and then the whole thing keeps snowballing.

Of course, Lemmy really has Reddit to thank for making us all balk enough to take a look at fediverse stuff. Mastodon really didn't do it for me when I checked on it a couple years ago, but this is awesome and totally makes sense.

Playing around with Pleroma now so I can follow users here!

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[–] Lolalixir@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The jump is caused by Spez being a twat.

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