this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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As someone who has been here for quite some time before the reddit exodus, it is crazy how much this place has improved in such a short time. I used to check lemmy once or maybe twice a day and then I'd go back to reddit. Now with all the new people posting here, lemmy has replaced reddit for me
I joined too early and stopped looking as there was so little content. In fact, when Lemmy started becoming well-known, I forgot I even had an account and made a new one elsewhere. Luckily, my password manager has a better memory!
Now if only my upvotes would go through. Hopefully the patch that was applied to lemmy.world yesterday addresses that. Their instance seems much more stable and responsive now.
I think the whole Fediverse is struggling with Reddit and Twitter sending a lot of new users their way.
It's struggling less than my RiF app though.
Yup, I joined in 2021 too and it was a ghost town. Just seeing hundreds of comments on posts is a shock.
Yeah, nearly three years ago when I first saw Lemmy I found the idea so cool but I didn't expect people not interested in fun rust projects to actually come here. And here we are now with an active platform with a wide variety of users !
I've actually noticed a lot less content on my Reddit frontpage. Granted I don't subscribe to any of the most popular r/all subs, but the tech and niche interest subreddits were the only reason I ever went to Reddit in the first place.
I genuinely can't bear to use the Reddit iOS app for more than like five minutes so I tend to just skim and close the app. I wonder if a lot of other Apollo/3PA users are feeling the same way and it's caused a drop in engagement as a result.