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Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

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[–] [email protected] 7 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's there a screenshot or something? I've done good about not logging in...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s a very long image, so I’m not sure how readable it’ll be, but I used Apollo’s awesome “share as image” feature to do this (hoping it’ll be implemented in one of the Lemmy iOS apps soon).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here's the archived version if you don't want to go there: https://archive.is/AxBTl

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

May also have to do with reddit users wondering why all their favorite subs are now full of pictures of John Oliver and Wales (which are newer acts of protest).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Tasteful pictures, mind you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Announcement 📣 📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_to_debunk_reddits_claims_and_talk_about/

Maybe this helped?