Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That’s a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

Welcome new reddit expats!

  • rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2791·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • murk02@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • amanaftermidnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    682·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • Calzoner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    611·
    1 year ago

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

  • trouser_mouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Urik@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I know Slashdot’s time has passed but didn’t know there was drama involved.
      Was there any Digg v4 like event that led to its fall?

      • trouser_mouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        It’s quite a way back now, so my memory is a bit fuzzy! I think there were redesigns and the site was sold to a company who mismanaged a few elements. I seem to remember a lot of noise on the site at the time, people complaining etc and then a large number moved away. I’m sure someone can fill in the details in a more reliable way haha.

        I remember Digg used to be great too - between that and Stumble Upon you could find so much awesome stuff!

        I suspect Reddit will die a much slower death, as it is just so big and widely used and the exodus of users doesn’t feel as huge. It will be interesting to see how everything unfolds.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          If I recall correctly, Digg made some weirdo policy about officially recognized channels had priority over community posts?

          Claiming they were trying to improve the quality and trustworthiness of their content.

          They also made a redesign, so frontpage became 90% pictures, more suitable for people with zero attention span.

          As I recall it, Digg “died” super fast after that. Of course technically Digg still exist, but it’s nothing compared to when at its height, it became an internet buzzword much like “to Google it” still is to day.

          • trouser_mouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Yes! Digg was pretty dramatic in how it fell from grace I think, whereas some other platforms have limped along slowly for quite a while after their prime, a bit like me.

            • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Yes the problem was that they changed the concept entirely, and the change was to a concept that simply didn’t work. The idea of “approved” content, was so lame everybody left.

              Personally I had already left for reddit at that time, but the original idea with Digg was pretty cute though, they had a little icon of a spade, and you could digg up or down. Same as up/down vote on reddit.

              Somehow reddit was just better, with it’s way more text based design, maybe because it looked a bit like a colorcoding editor for programmers. for whatever reason reddit quickly had way better content than Digg, despite Digg was more famous and had a clear head start.

    • starclaude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      the thing is just like how people thought r/antiwork would be gone, turns out after some time it regained it users and activities, so I guess lets see if reddit users would be back, especially the amount of people browse from pc is not a small number either, I believe big subreddit will still alive or retained its user just like usual

    • spaxxor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’m old enough to remember when this sort of thing was a regular thing, especially with bulletin boards popping up and burning down with regularity. Apart from crowd sourced troubleshooting and the like, reddit hasn’t really done much for me.

  • Scarronline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    1 year ago

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

    • ijeff@lemdro.idEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Lots of us new folks around! Also great there are so many apps being developed for Lemmy. Although the web UI is also pretty good.

      • Briz@vlemmy.netEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        I’ve seen so many helpful posts since joining yesterday, thank you to everyone for welcoming all of us, keeping servers running, posting helpful info on how to Lemmy, etc. - Happy to have a new home!

  • gsa32@lemmy.worldEnglish
    361·
    1 year ago

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

  • Machefi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I didn’t believe this would happen. I thought all who wanted to migrate have done this already and there would be maybe a couple hundred people joining us today. I’m glad I was wrong. Gives me hope in people of the Internet standing up for what they deserve.

    • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t do it till last minute cause I’m lazy and hate creating accounts for every little thing these days (though I definitely prefer a new account than login with Google or whatnot). However I loved Reddit is Fun and the CEO has made some less than satisfactory decisions so it was time to pull up stakes and move on, again, though 15 years since the Digg move it had it’s time, now for something else. I thought it was amusing I didn’t even realize spez was the CEO till this recent but, I just always saw him posting but never commenting so I ignored him years ago. Figure you should do more than spam links on these sites.

    • popemichael@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      I fully converted yesterday because I was holding out hope that reddit would do the right thing.

      We vote with our dollars and our actions. Consider this a vote for freedom.

    • chikaygo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      I made a Lemmy account a couple weeks ago and started getting familiar with the fediverse. Then I decided to create a different user on Lemmy.world so I think I registered this one yesterday.

      For the last 30 days I’ve still used Reddit because it has the most activity and it’s been like “this is the last time!!” kinda feels. But now I’ve discovered wefwef, and I’m not going to be using Reddit anymore so here I am.

      I think a lot of people are similar…nostalgia and ease of use kept everyone mostly using Reddit and now the people who care about the whole issue will start contributing here.

    • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I accessed reddit through the Sync app and actually didn’t realise it was just going to stop working. I’m still not really sure what’s going on here, this is my first experience of the fediverse. I like learning new things.

    • BedSharkPal@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      The sooner we realize corporate control of social media was a massive mistake, the better the world will be. Imagine if corporate social media algos that drive engagement through ragebaiting hadn’t existed for the last 10 years…

      • arefx@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I believe they changed how they payout to streamers, essentially cutting their income by around 25% and then keeping it for themselves. Also stricter rules on sponsorships and how they are advertised on your stream. I don’t really know the details I don’t use twitch just what I remember reading.

  • ThatGuyFromWork@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • cantsurf@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I share your opinion. I’m optimistic about the migrations away from twitter, reddit, and facebook. This is a great opportunity for the improvement and democratization of social networks. The more that people move to open source platforms and the more that people demand control of their data, the better!

  • iamtrashman1312@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    1 year ago

    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.