• doehni@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    😄👋🥂🌱

    I really hope the momentum holds and the numbers will continue to grow!

    I’m really excited to be here, Lemmy feels like reddit in the golden years (long gone).

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      I do expect that it will taper off eventually and then drop for a bit before leveling out (not being pessimistic, it’s just a simple fact that much of the current growth of Lemmy, or for that matter kbin or other reddit alternatives, is due to people leaving reddit, and eventually everyone that wants to leave who is willing to consider this place will have come over, so the growth will stop or at least revert to a more “normal” pace, and not everyone will end up liking Lemmy, and so there will be some fraction of people that don’t stay long once the hype over people moving from reddit has died down). However, it should still stabilize somewhere much higher than things were before the migration, so my hope is that it gets enough momentum that the number of people that remain when this incident is over is enough to sustain a functional community.

      • Phil@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Realistic assessment but the way reddit’s ceo is going ,I think we will see more exodus 1st july and again shortly after that, I do think reddits bad news train has only just left the station.

    • KidsTryThisAtHome@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I completely agree! And I don’t think we’ve really started to see people leave reddit yet, that’ll happen when the 3PAs stop working

      • Sens@feddit.uk
        1·
        2 years ago

        Have to agree, I don’t really mind how many total users or active users there are at this point, there’s enough talk to engage in proper conversations now

        • philz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yup finally seeing a lot of good conversations now. Which was really always the best part of Reddit.

    • lunarshot@kbin.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      agreed, I have found that interacting with content here has been more meaningful and the interactions to be more welcoming. Happy weekend to you!

  • kwot@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    Been trying to make an account here for like a week. Kept hanging, but it finally went through this time!

    • Eldritch@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yes I can only imagine that some of these servers have definitely been getting the hug of death. Though that the good thing with them not all being monolithic. I remember seeing the astonished posts earlier this week when Lemmy.world had grown 10 times its previous size in just a few days and was near around 20,000 users. We’re now five times beyond that. And not stopping yet. That sort of growth isn’t sustainable but damn well fun to see.

  • DVD@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    The website now says that Lemmy is over 200,000 people, wow! This growth is amazing, I just hope the people joining are a bit more concrete though, and don’t treat this place as a fad.

    • korny@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I have sync on my phone for now, going to be hard to delete. But, Jerboa has been great and the community here is nice. I definitely plan on staying for a long time after 13 years on reddit.

      • Eldritch@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 years ago

        Yes same here. I lurked on Reddit long before the digg migration. And actively participated for at least 10 years. I still have the apps installed on my phone. But I literally have not opened them in days. I still have new tab or two in a browser open to specific subs. That I check infrequently. But as soon as I’m aware of counterparts on the Fediverse I am more than happy with Lemmy. My couple hours a day of scrolling on Reddit are now devoted solely to Lemmy and finding new communities as well as starting one of my own. Something which I never did on Reddit.

        • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 years ago

          11 years with an account. Remember digg before that, and stumbleupon before that… I find this has been a nice change.

          • Eldritch@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 years ago

            And the whole time slashdot has always been there for us. Actually I am kind of amazed that they are still around. But that is definitely old old old guard.

  • Classic@geddit.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Reddit is blocked in my country so I have to open reddit using dns, because lemmy is already there, this is an opportunity to find a community forum for a replacement for reddit in my country.

    • dystop@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      The most important is to keep up the momentum. Users don’t mean anything if there’s no content. We all need to keep posting stuff and keep actively disucsing stuff!

    • ItsYourBoyHalo@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      That’s what I love about it, though. The fact that it is still maturing means that we as a community have a say on how Lemmy will evolve.

    • ArtemZ@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 years ago

      To be honest, the fact that such immature software is capable of being a viable alternative to one of the biggest websites on the internet is already super impressive.

      Let’s see where we will head in a couple of years.

      • HKPiax@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Damn right. I’ve been using Reddit for years, and after this shitshow I moved to Lemmy and honestly, it doesn’t feel that much different. I don’t make content, nor do I moderate, so I just scroll and lurk, and comment sometimes, and Lemmy has a steep, extremely short learning curve (you can call it simply a barrier to entry), but after understanding very few basic concepts, this shit feels as natural as Reddit. Besides, I’m testing the Memmy app for iOS and it’s improving exponentially. I seriously feel like Lemmy can become a good alternative, for real, not for the memes.

  • RissaCrochets@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    You think it’s big now, just wait until July. Reddit’s api changes are going to force people off of the site in droves. Right now it’s a lot of noise and some movement, but a lot of the regular user base hasn’t actually felt any effects yet. Once the changes make the site unusable for a lot of people there will be a lot more.

          • andobando@lemmy.world
            0·
            2 years ago

            95% of the people using reddit on mobile are already on official reddit app. Apollo going down isn’t going to cause a massive flee, just a portion of the small userbase that is Apollo users.

            • marcos@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 years ago

              You are assuming those people are still using the app.

              When I first tried to use reddit on a phone, I downloaded the official app too. I just never used it after discovering it’s useless.

              Reddit has their numbers, obviously, but we don’t.