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!

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[–] vepro 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] phrogpilot73 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think once people start to figure out just HOW the Fediverse works, they'll start spreading out. I joined beehaw originally, then they defedereated from lemmy.world, which is where most of the communities were that I had subscribed to. That's why I joined lemmy.world...

[–] unerds 8 points 1 year ago

so far i think that process is going to be a bit of a barrier for the average user... so many logins. i understand that decentralization carries this burden, but i'm not sure it's worth it for me personally, and i think i may be slightly more inclined that the average user to jump through those hoops. we shall see.

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