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Lemmy.world grew by about 40% on the first day of reddit migration (self.fediverse)

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can avoid it completely right now by simply joining one of the less crowded instances instead.

[–] EvilCartyen 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I am beginning to see that. I'm considering just spinning up my own instance, should be the fastest solution of all, right?