The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
Hard to believe how many of us there actually are, yet social media has conditioned us into believing a website is dead unless it has 50 million daily visitors.
We certainly aren’t hurting for content (well, yes, we are, but the archive is being built as we speak.)
Similar for gaming, “dead game” on a game that has way more than enough people to fill a lobby still. Or even worse if its a single player game.
Thank fuck, maybe I can go back to being a lurker lol
I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Same here dude I’ve posted ridiculous amounts on !android@lemdro.id and did a highlight by highlight match thread on !cricket@lemmy.world once. That last one was painful af.
I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Same. On topics on than Romeposting™ I’d love to go back to being a lurker and only an occasional contributor. I imagine it’ll be a while before that day comes, though.
Honestly thank you for your service Pug, there is a +75 next to your name for me for a reason
Same boat here
The same…boat??? BOAT???
Thank you for doing your part in getting the ball rolling!
Thank your for your service. 🙏 Building a community takes work. Let’s hope this one is more resilient to corpo-lobotomize than Reddit, Digg and Slashdot.
Yeah! I’ve been doing the same. I actually find myself thinking “I haven’t participated in a conversation in over a week. I better find something to comment on.”
As a fellow lurker, I sincerely thank you and everyone else that has been putting in the extra effort to post threads and comments!
Even though i have been much more active here than on reddit, i have way less karma
Every time i tried to calculate the percentage of how much less, it said something about dbzer0.com for some reason
Do I detect a divide by zero joke? Nice!
Fellow lurker at heart here. Kinda heartwarming to see a bunch of lurkers doing things out of their comfort zone!
So we have about as many users as the subreddit dedicated to Taylor Swift’s armpits
This is hilarious, but I need facts.
All together, we (Lemmy) are hotter than oatmeal, but we’re less interesting than office chairs. (On Reddit).
I’ve logged back onto here for the first time in ages because I do not trust big tech.
Welcome back!
because I do not trust big tech.
Dude, same. I mean, I get that’s why many are here, but it’s just gotten so much worse lately.
Starting to build my first Linux machine to use as my daily driver laptop. Been meaning to get into it all for years, but Microsoft’s constant shenanigans as of late and everyone on Lemmy really pushed me to take the plunge.
It’ll be a “baby’s first project” of a used Thinkpad running on Mint, but it’s a start to getting out from under these corporate fucks. Every step away is a step to which I’m not planning to return.
Welcome back
Lemmy.ca signups per day if we go back to the start of the first exodus:
Nice graph
Thank you for providing this informative graph! I will be saving it for future use.
That’s great to see we’re spiking a bit recently just not as much as the days of the Reddit api shutdown situation.
You could use this graph to investigate the incidents that have occurred with the user spikes.
In 2010 I was part of the Great Digg Exodus, and now in 2025 I’m part of the Reddit->Lemmy migration. Truly I’m part of the crowd.
You’re so cool keeping up with the trends 😎
More like I have no personality and just go with the flow 😜
I get its a bit of self deprecating humor but in seriousness it shows the exact opposite IMO. Going with the flow would be continuing to consume reddit slop no matter how awful the website gets, no matter how much content is baked by a bot, no matter how many more ads they show you just to comment or post.
“Lol I know its getting shittier but im addicted and unwilling to change my habits or show some backbone. Im sorry for even considering a 12 hour protest, Please daddy just let me continue posting I promise ill be good little content monkey and keep your shareholder numbers up this quarter. I don’t miss my old phone app for reddit at all…”
wipes away a single suppressed tear for the death of boost/sync/whatever and their own lost dignity when spez isn’t looking
Seriously good on you for being a trendsetter with a basic shred of self respect who knows when to tap out of a bad/abusive situation, Echofox. I wonder just how much more the water needs to be boiled before even the joke characature above gets tired of reddits BS. Maybe never.
Hey thanks, I do lean a little hard on the self deprecating humor sometimes.
Reddit has been getting worse for years, and the comments there are so adversarial and insincere.
Users definitely can get sick of bad sites, what happened with X shows that. Their user base is a small fraction of what it was a few years ago.
I’m definitely liking it here though!
Oh baby, if you wanted to get away from adversarial sarcastic comments you sure came to the right place.
Internet is going to be internet, but this place is like 10% as adversarial as reddit from my experience so far. I haven’t even had anybody DM me to end myself yet. At reddit I got those for saying my favorite game was Total Annihilation.
Slow and steady wins the race.
I find this true of so few actual races.
Counter-point: he won the race by being the fastest runner. But I grant you it took him awhile to decide to run the race relative to average life spans and the age of the likely typical marathon runner, so we can just call it a draw.
Edit: Okay, I read the rest of the article. Quite a ride.
It was our evolutionary success as a human animal. We were never the fastest, strongest or even the most numerous at the start. But working slowly as a cooperative community, we conquered every liveable space on the planet. We can do the same online.
Persistence hunting corporate dominance, I can dig it
Someone fetch me my spear
And my axe!
Hopefully people start posting in niche communities!
(But not the Taylor Swift armpit one)
The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.
Sounds to me like we need universities and maybe even governments to be running Lemmy instances.
Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there’s a lot less serious ones of that kind lol
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help
I feel like as more people wake up to how social media is toxic and quite literally programming by the rich, they will seek out alternatives that are owned by the people.
This is how the Internet was intended to be.
I came back to Lemmy as in trying to avoid American corporation owned social networks. Reddit falls into that category.
That’s why I’m here.
Welcome!
Welcome back!
I finally bit the bullet and deleted my 14yr old Reddit account last night. It was the only way to break my habit.
🫶 Its hard to give up all that history
Yeah, it was tough. I did clean it out a couple of times over the years, but it’d been a while when I deleted it.
I still have it but only follow niche and local subs for which there isn’t enough engagement here yet.
Yeah, the only subreddit I miss so far is r/evilautism lol but I did request the mod there create one here as well.
I’m glad more people are realizing how evil big tech companies are.
Hopefully they are active and interesting people.
I am not interesting
What happened 2023?
3rd party API restrictions as they ramped up for their IPO and the shitshow that ensued.
The other answers are correct, I just wanted to add that they’re talking about Reddit
The first time people actually joined lemmy, before then was probably like 1 instance with near-dead activity.
I remember there were reddit-likes too, they just didnt work with fediverse. And were mostly…well almost all were unsavory. Like they were ONLY populated with people reddit didnt want anymore. Communities with banned content. So not the greatest.
Im glad lemmy/piefed/kbin and all other activityhub/fediverse alternatives are out there.
I just want to point out that Kbin is no longer being worked on and Mbin forked from it and the work is continuing there under that name. The major instances switched over a while ago.
Sounds like good news. Only heard about this place start of this year so glad to be in the numbers
Welcome!
