Lemmy.world grew by about 40% on the first day of reddit migration

It’s so wonderful that Reddit, by making a decision that benefits no user/mod/sub, and actively harms users/mods/subs, all in the name of corporate greed, gave Lemmy the boost it needed to become a viable alternative to Reddit.

Thank you, Spez. We couldn’t have done this without you.

We definitely felt the ship groaning through all this. Thankfully the Ruud-er skillfully navigated through this, and the software update on top.

Anyways, welcome to Lemmy 17!

First comment for me! 11 years on Reddit, never talked much but lurked a lot. I can’t use their official app so I’m here now and looking forward to see the community grow!

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Honestly, its already a good amount of content. People reply, people upvote, people post interesting articles. Its filling the void for me already.

Hello, it's me, a reddit refugee 🎶

This is beautiful to see - I understand Reddit is a company that needs to make a profit, but the way they have treated their users and unpaid staff is shocking (but not unexpected). The fact it also heavily impacts users with additional accessibility requirements is terrible.

Will be fun in a way to watch Reddit try to claw back what has happened.

Give it 12 months it will likely be a wreck along with the current CEO who will probably be given the boot.

I'm old enough to have seen many services go through this: AOL, MSN, MySpace, Fark, Slashdot, Digg, Something Awful, etc. Reddit (and maybe Twitter) are just next in line to realise they are not too big to fail. Hopefully followed by Meta.

As a new user from reddit, wanted to say thanks for welcoming us and working hard to accommodate us!

spez is unironically the best thing to happen to Lemmy lmao.

Welcome newcomers to the fediverse!

I am a reddit refugee. I am so happy that lemmy exists. Thank you all for standing up these servers and giving us a place to scroll. ☺

You can definitely feel it.

Scotty, divert power to stabilizers.

Best Lemmy instance on the fediverse. I appreciate the work the admins here have done

I am one of those people who migrated as I grew up with an internet that was full of small communities and interesting content uncontrolled by greedy corporations. When I found Reddit back in 2012, I thought it was amazing and going to be a bastion of information for a modern internet. Well, now we know that wasn't the case thanks to chasing the almighty dollar. Hopefully this is the point in time where we can steer this ship around and bring the control back to the users.

We gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers.

Both twitter, and reddit (maybe twitch and youtube) going to shit is perfect timing

I peeked around a bit with Connect (android) for a while, and the things that stood out the most to me was the small size and sluggishness of the whole thing. BUT what also stuck out far more were pins of maintenance because of growth & updates of constant hard work to increase performance, and an interface that (while slightly jank) is infinitely superior to the official reddit app. It's good to see continued growth, especially in such a welcoming community. The problems are providing to be simple growing pains and it's great to be here.

Glad to be here!

It's astounding, seeing how fast new communities are being founded and populated. I'm not much of a "community starter" type, but I'm quite excited to find a new home for the shitpost-tier OC I make. I'm also sincerely fascinated to see how all these new places coexist/cross-pollinate.

Welcome to all you new folks! Water is great!

Exciting to see it growing!

It's so great to see. Just proves what everyone was saying all along. Communities are built by the people that participate in them, and not the tools. Get rid of those tools and we'll find other ones.

Congratulations to the instance for it's extraordinary growth!

Welcome everyone who popped over from reddit.

It's important to remember you're on the fediverse, a huge variety of websites running all sorts of software of which lemmy.world is just one server, and Lemmy itself is just one piece of software. There's many other reddit-alikes like Lemmy, as well as software like Twitter, or Instagram, or Facebook, or YouTube.

Decentralization is strength. Try to spread out over instances with our users and our communities because instances can and do shut down, shut off federation, or otherwise become reddit.

This is supported by admins and users, there is no pot of venture capital money keeping instances running or paying admins. Keep that in mind.

Just made the jump - this is my first comment on Lemmy. Here's to a solid alternative!

Long time reddit lurker here, trying out a few alternatives at the moment but quite liking Lemmy. Glad to see growth in all of them and super excited for the boost for Lemmy app coming out!

Immigrant from Reddit is Fun here.

I found the comment that mentioned Summit is quite close to RIF helpful, so here I am!

Used to be a long time Reddit lurker, but I feel as if this migration for me is giving me the chance to start afresh, and be a bigger part of this new community!

I know its only one data point, but I just logged on to see how many people were online in a sub i used to frequent and it was down 30-50%, the lowest numbers i've seen all year.

Hi, my name is power2bill. Feels odd to not have RIF on my phone. I'm going to lurk for awhile and make a comment every 2-3 months. Hopefully, new communities pop up that I used to go on from reddit. I'll be here enjoying usefully, and sometimes not useful information. Cheers everyone! 🍻

We're counting today as the first day?

*Happy Canada Day.

I hope I am not missing anything if I joined using lemmy.ml.

So glad I accidentally signed up on the best server. I don’t regret my decision. Now that I have WefWef, I’m sold. Love it here. Love the server. Love the community and subscribed to multiple communities in the fediverse too. Learning a lot!

Weirdly it's a similar feeling to moving to a way nicer house!

Weirdly it's a similar feeling to moving to a way nicer house!

Hello all you fine Reddit refugees.

I'm here!!! Fuck Reddit!!

Oh damn, I remember people saying that everybody interested in Lemmy already joined by now. I'm really curious how things will look one week from now

Welcome newcomers to the fediverse!

I'm excited to be here! I heard a lot about the digg migration to reddit around when I first started on there 10 years ago. Never thought I'd be a part of the next one so soon!

I already learned my lesson when I signed up to the big Mastodon instance hosted on the other side of the world—found the second largest US-based server I could find, signed up there, rock solid so far.

Joined yesterday day. It's a bit of a learning curve and requires some time to rebuild my "front page". I'm enjoying it so far, haven't stepped foot on Reddit once since then besides my muscle memory launching bacon reader a few times.

Just found out about the wefwef PWA app which is pretty damn good as an Apollo replacement. Hopefully it can be a native iOS app in the future. Definitely made me ease into Lemmy a lot easier. Hope good things for the future.

Good to see Lemmy grow, but I hope that the decentralization will work out so that the large influx of new users will spread out as evenly as possible. General purpose instances help balancing the load, and last time I checked join-lemmy.org there have been several general purpose instances, which seems promising.

I finally made an account after things got stable. A +1 for the active user count. I mainly lurk, but it's actually compelling to engage here.

This is my first comment on Lemmy. I'm still learning the ropes but about to nuke my 10 year old reddit account with probably at this point tens of thousands of comments - content for Reddit.

Whoooo!! Here we go. New era of internet. Twitter is dying, reddit is dying, I can't wait to see the decentralized web come to life.

Well, sorry for saying this folks, but I regret having deleted my Reddit account...

... before editing all my comments to point to Lemmy.

Welcome to the new users :)

Reddit expats represent.

Glad to be here! Just got to learn the ropes.

First comment on Lemmy. Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help us get started?

I'd like to say glad to bere here, but tbh it makes me sad to leave behind my Reddit account of almost a decade.

Lemmy look promising though (and still slightly confusing :)

I'm here after ten years with Baconreader. Really sad it's gone, but I'm super hopeful about my future here! If anyone knows of any communities that enjoy watches or fountain pens, let me know!

Still learning the ropes of it all. I'll try not to be just a lurker like I am ha.

So glad to see Lemmy get big

Man the servers got hit today didn't they!

The future is looking bright

And it's really slow.

Using Wefwef myself and lemmy.zip...both have been snappy as I was accustomed to using Apollo.

I joined Reddit when Digg made some drastic mistakes. Not sure Lemmy will be the answer, here I am regardless.

I’m also a former Snoo

Glad to see folks coming over here, definitely shaping up into a preferable alternative :)

Holy shit

You can really tell, as posts that used to have 1-2 comments now have 4-5. It's nice chatting with y'all

It’s weirdly exciting to have a fresh start on a new platform. Hoping to see those numbers continue to grow!

What app are you guys using for Lemmy now ? I'm on Jerboa . I find it laggy while scrolling. What's a better alternative?

I just joined and so far I'm really liking it. Gonna have to figure out the new format these instances, but I'm up for it!

Crazy!! I don't envy the admins lol, tho they're doing a fantastic job in keeping the server up.

Glad to be here and be a part of the community! It's unfortunate Reddit is going the way of Digg, but definitely looking forward to watching Lemmy grow and develop.

I really do love it here.

I am currently writing some more instance stats graphs on lemmyverse: https://lemmyverse.net/instance/lemmy.world/user-growth

You can clearly see the growth! More to come :D

That's a mighty leap.

Slightly off-topic: Can you guys access lemm.ee? It looks all messed up on my end.. @sunaurus@lemm.ee

Cheers Reddit (and all of my Karma). It's great to have a good alternative.

It's me! I'm one of the new joiners! I've been enjoying the content and discussion here in the last day since I created my profile here. I have noticed a bit of lag and issues with things loading. I know there was a software update and obviously a sudden influx of new users. As frustrating as it was to have to move apps and communitie and despite the obvious growing pains, I have been happy to find a new community that is friendly and vibrant as this one!

Glad to be here!

First post post-Reddit as well

I have slowly been trying to redo my frontpage here and so far with all those migration links it's been a breeze

This probably happened with every Lemmy server out there.

I was having timeout issues with most that I tried to use.

Today everything seems normal.

Man the servers got hit today didn't they!

The future is looking bright

That’s intense.

Someone should post this in r/UpliftingNews

And yet fediverse observer is showing declining user count, while server count, comments and posts are growing steadily.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Why?

Yup, here I am lemmy.world!

Very happy to see that such a strong migration is actually happening.

In.

Good for Lemmy.

Is that local members or total users?

i'm so glad to be part of the revolution

Such great news about Lemmy.world

lets go

That is a great gain. Awesome.

Came to know about Lemmy when Sync for reddit dev put notice on their app, joined same day. Waiting for Sync for Lemmy. Hi my fellow fedophiles.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uUSBJGEutZf4gRNMkoS8YT.jpg

Just dropped in after saying goodbye to reddit is fun recently. seeing people move here gives me hope! Excited to see what comes out of this :)

I'm curious if anyone has made a "Here are the current apps for Lemmy" posts. The last one is a few days old.

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WoW that's insane, still lemmy.world is working better than lemmy.ml for me. Good job admins.

i have been using saidit becasue i said something edgy and got shadowbanned on one of my reddit accounts a while back. sadly saidit never grew to be as big as lemmy. but it's still good to see decentralized platform rise again. someone mentioned aaron schwarz in a recent discussion on reddit perhaps under a post concerning reddit's recent policy changes and baclashes, and i am glad to see aaron's decentralization idea realizing here on lemmy.

Nice! That's a lotta growth.

So cool!

Awesome!

Looks awesome!

A warm welcome from Kbin to all Fediverse newcomers.

Haha awesome!

I'm unable to even log into my .world account anymore. So just gonna use my other ones for now.

Is there a way to track the activity change/traffic for Reddit? Especially now, given that 3rd party API access is mostly cut off.

Lemmy gang rise up!

Why is it that Iemmy.world not opening? I'm trying to open it in my phone's Brave browser

Really enjoying all the extra content and increased buzz of activity! Hope it keeps going up from here.

Oddly enough, my reddit is fun app is working today after i was force logged out

I wouldn't call it the first day of the Reddit migration.

really hope an IOS Lemmy app comes out

Amazing. I’m sure it’ll keep growing too

Awesome! Awesome to the max!

Welcome to all. This is a great alternative to reddit.

woah

If l.w continues to defed other instances it will become a problem having a glut of people on on instance