this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 45 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 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

[–] [email protected] 9 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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/u/spez brought us here.

Thanks spez!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Probably a significant number of bots tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 15 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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[–] [email protected] 14 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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They’re starting to de-mod folks.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 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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[–] [email protected] 12 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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[–] [email protected] 12 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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.

I don't even use third party apps. It's just that I can't give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

For me, LJ Dawson, the Dev of Sync for Reddit posted that he is making a Lemmy app. I was planning on leaving Reddit at the end of June, so I signed up! I'm extremely happy to be here!

Edited: messed up posting the Dev's name. Thanks @[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm tired of capitalism and greed ruining everything I love!

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[–] [email protected] 9 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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[–] [email protected] 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (8 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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People that have ~1 week of ping time (as yours truly) are finally getting to their todo list item of checking alternatives to Reddit and making an account and first posts :)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone figuring out /u/spez is full of shit

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno, but I've noticed that lemmy.ml had a bunch of bot and spam bots today to ban, and both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world have defederated with a bunch more instances compared to the other day. I wonder if the registration exploit has been patched.

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