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Is there a place to watch lemmy user numbers in real time? interested to see if there's a spike as users try out something else with their new free time.

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[–] errer 147 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] 4am 181 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

Don’t kid yourself. Reddit was valuable to pretty much all of you or else you wouldn’t continuously shitpost about it.

~~Also I know you’re a former redditor because you’re parroting the same tired-ass old line that is top comment on every thread about something bad happening to someone or some thing they don’t like. Get some new material.~~

EDIT: Speaking of getting new material, I should try not to be as snarky. Get the alien out of your head, my man. We don't need to do that to entertain ourselves anymore. I apologize to @[email protected], and I take that shit back. I hope you got a laugh out of it as intended, even though there was no real way to tell it was supposed to be a bit cheeky.

It did still frustrate me to see all that knowledge just hand-waved like what happened was no big deal. I guess "couldn't have happened to a nicer boardroom" or something would have clicked better lol but I'd imagine we're probably on the same page about it at the end of the day.

Anyway, let's all be cool, Lemmy fucking rocks, we're nice here, save the sarcasm for mocking actual malice instead of eating each other. I'll try to be better.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The reason everyone is so mad is because reddit has been so valuable and useful this past 15 years and they are ruining it.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly, we all helped build reddit for what it is today. They repeatedly showed its users and moderators that all they care about is filling their pockets. The API death is just a symptom, but the disease will spread.

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[–] mrginger 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And it was so valuable and useful because we, the former redditors, made it that way. They're ruining the hard (and free) work people did over those 15 years to make it useful. The good thing is it's been shown to be entirely replaceable, and made better by taking control out of corporate hands.

The special (and valuable) thing about Reddit was its passionate users. Take that away and what's left?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why are so many people openly hostile towards redditors? Are you trying to get us to leave?

What you're failing to realize is that Lemmy needs new users in order to grow. You may not like the bitching, but it keeps conversations going which drives more engagement to the site.

Stop trying to push people away from the platform. People need an alternative to reddit. They've been a monopoly since 2010; it's time for that to change. Won't happen if redditors don't want to come here because they feel unwanted.

So please, try to chill the fuck out. And leave us be.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

agreed, redditors are welcomed in the fediverse!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are welcome. It's just some users that didn't get their hug from mom today.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

They got here from Reddit 5 minutes earlier, so that makes them OG lemmings and gives them the right to shit on the latecomers, don't you know? 😉

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[–] CombatWombatEsq 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think both things can be true -- we have a superior replacement, so Reddit is now of considerable lower value, but also Reddit was super important to me and I'm still deeply invested in it's "demise".

I certainly think that reports of Reddit's death are greatly exaggerated and also would like to see less Reddit-related content, but I think there's space for people who were avid Redditors to have become true believers in the fediverse.

[–] CombatWombatEsq 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also, I'm open to people who disagree with my assessment that Lemmy is superior -- if things like number of MAUs or site stability are the most important thing to you, then you'll definitely disagree and that's fine! I more meant that people can change and evolve over time and that doesn't make them hypocrites.

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[–] JTheDoc 24 points 1 year ago

You're on a post discussing the potential funneling of Reddit users to Lemmy.world, yet criticize someone for potentially being a Reddit user?

This is the first impression you're setting for them; you're not protecting Lemmy nor are you representing it.

Chill dude, let it organically change if you're tired of Reddit, a lot of people are too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Don’t kid yourself. Reddit was valuable to pretty much all of you or else you wouldn’t continuously shitpost about it.

It doesn't really work that way. Lots of people visited subreddits like cringetopia, whatcouldgowrong, confidentlyincorrect, etc. Basically a compulsion to kill time by gawking at dumb people doing dumb stuff. That doesn't mean those subreddits or that use of time had actual value, even to that specific person though.

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[–] jarfil 15 points 1 year ago

Reddit was valuable

Indeed, it "was".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As much as I'd love to ditch Reddit completely, I just had to use information from a few Reddit posts to fix an issue on my home server. I hate to say it, but Reddit is extremely valuable.

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[–] megasin1 10 points 1 year ago

You do know which community you're posting in right?

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[–] negativeyoda 121 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shit. Where are people going to tell Spez to fuck himself now?

[–] Diprount_Tomato 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jarfil 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

f u/spez

Hm... it's not the same.

[–] allroy 21 points 1 year ago

he has no power here

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[–] cyberpunk007 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me get this right. Sync for lemmy comes out... Reddit goes down....

Hm...

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I don't know, I've still been seeing that a lot on Lemmy, too.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A closed source centralized Lemmy alternative

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[–] danc4498 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember Digg? It's basically like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Reddit did the Digg. It's already buried into oblivion.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Diprount_Tomato 23 points 1 year ago

Idk but fuck spez

[–] psycho_driver 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a fleshlight modeled to look like a pez dispenser. When the mouth pops open, instead of candy coming out, your c#*k goes in.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did you know you can say cock on the Internet? Fuck, piss, shit, and cum too. What an amazing place this internet thing is!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You must have paid for a better internet access. Every time I say pi$$, $ht or c0k it just keeps replacing the characters. It's really annoying when you try to talk about fish and nobody knows what you say when you type seaba$$

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[–] psycho_driver 10 points 1 year ago

I refrained in fear of summoning OPs mom.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I know that place? Was it... a dream? I'm not sure.

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[–] GuyDudeman 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not sure if this is actually realtime, but this site has charts: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

[–] samus12345 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is lemmy.world listed as USA when neither the founding admin nor the server are located there?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they put it behind Cloud Flare after some DDOS attempts. It could be that.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] qooqie 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are some big boy numbers. 2 mil posts and almost 1/4mil active users. Getting there!

[–] Lemmylefty 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

138k active users to 554k total users is about 25%, which I would imagine is significantly higher than most social media.

Is someone marked an active user if they ever voted or posted a comment/post, or do they drop off if they haven’t done so in 14 days?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I just went to Reddit.com. It looks like it's up but all of the posts on the main page are from 9 hrs ago or older (I didn’t scroll very far to see if there were newer ones).

I went to the search and looked up Redditalternatives. I got two error messages - "We had a server error..." and "Request failed." But the sub appeared behind the error pop ups. I see sub posts from 2 and 4 hrs ago.

Does this mean that Reddit is down? I don't want to engage too much with the site to find out.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go outside and watch bamboo grow!

[–] Shadywack 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go outside and touch some rhododendrons.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tristophe 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

then a friendship has been made

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