Created on June 1 of this year, lemmy.world quickly grew to 51k users and then blew up after reddit's API debacle on July 1, doubling to a whopping 100k in just 9 days later!
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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I’ve only been using Lenny for a day and a half, but I’ve been having a great time. The memes are 10/10 and everything else is coming together nicely. This is already my Reddit replacement, genuinely.
LETS GO LENNY!!!
Ha, I was laughing at someone else writing Lenny earlier. Never considered that it was just auto-correct and that I should be careful not to do the same 😅 
Petition to change the lemmy.world logo to Lenny
Yes. Where do I sign lol
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If lemmy goes in the wrong direction and everyone abandons (water)ship, Lenny would be a good pejorative. After all, who better to unwitting snap a rodent’s neck than Lenny?
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I was waiting for a MicroWave thread about this 😁
Congratulations everyone for this milestone! 🥳
I’m trying to keep up with the fediverse jargon, but what the heck is a MicroWave thread?
Just done by Microwave, an enthusiastic poster
Wasn't lemmy.world only created in mid June?
June 1, I think. Hitting 100k users in just over a month is kind of intense.
Zuck, Spez, and Elon can suck my nuts!
Well I'm loving Lemmy.world so far. Feels refreshing in here.
I wasn't commenting much on Reddit, but in here I feel like participating.
Congrats and thanks Lemmy.world admin @ruud@lemmy.world
Hello from Kbin. It's nice that we can hang out.
It is pretty sweet. The fediverse. It's nice that we can all hang out. ☺️
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What the hell ? Feels like it was sitting at 30k just a couple days ago, insane growth.
Pretty sure Lemmy is getting a ton of reddit users now that they pretty much ruined the user experience by making 3rd party app developers to pay money to use their api.
I just created an account here... I won't be returning to reddit!
Welcome to the Fediverse. To acknowledge your arrival, please accept the Lemmy Lemon Basket award.
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Went from lurker to user today actually. It wasn't even the apps it was just the awful attitude towards users.
And still silent on the status of Meta defederation.
It's not federated yet anyway.
I believe Ruud has stated elsewhere (on Mastodon or whatever it is called) that they won't do anything preemptively, but they're keeping a close eye on what Meta does.
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I just signed up the other day once I discovered the dev for Sync was starting development on a Lemmy app.
I wanted to ask regular Lemmy users... What is your opinion on the influx of people from Reddit? Do you fear it will change the social atmosphere here, or do you welcome new users to the community?
I've seen plenty of posts venting about Reddit already, and I imagine that'll probably get tiring really fast for long lasting Lemmy users (Lemmyers?)
First, it is not just lemmy, it is the fediverse (replying to you from kbin.social - my preferred cup of tea). Second, I see that the mostly good people/posters are leaving Reddit, I do not see, for example, personal attacks when people disagree here in fediverse, I see no removed/moderated comments or posts. I am sure it happens here too, it is just so rare… it reminds me of the days of mass migration from digg. So, at least for now I think this is great, and it separates people who are ready to stand for principles from the rest. Welcome.
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The third party app I used for reddit said that this is the platform they were going to focus on. That's why I came. Those are the people I want to support. The people that make the experience better. Once they release an app I'll buy it first day
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I'm not going back to Reddit, that's for sure. Unless...they come up with an i486 theme...🤔
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Just a week and a half ago, we were celebrating going from #2 to #1 most populous instance. And just 2 weeks before that, I had no idea what a lemmy was.
It's like catching a nice surf wave.
Good for you lemmy.world, congrats!
BTW, lemmy.world is #1 in the node sort by total users at the-federation.info
Now the trick is to keep the instance running well with that crazy high user load.
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Very happy to be part of this community - feels like home to me!
I like Kbin better, but I am happy and proud to contribute to this rapidly expanding family of communities that repudiates control by megacorps and Big Tech.
The great thing is that there's no competition between lemmy and kbin. We can use whichever we prefer and still have access to all the same communities.
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I've checked out the Reddit popular tab a few times recently. The quality has declined immensely.
The reposting has gotten to a whole new level, and the amount of content pulled straight from tiktok and twitter has increased. Also started to see some very uncanny subreddits climbing into r/all.
I'm done loading that place all together pretty much.
Glad to be part of the growth. Congrats! 🎇
It's amazing how well it handles the load now compared to just a few weeks before
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glad to be a part of this community!
This is awesome!!! Glad to be here before the first 100k and before the change to Voyager from WefWef.
It's been handled amazingly well on the whole, too!
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