Fediverse

I've noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:

• r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
• Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.

Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.

I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!

/u/spez brought us here.

Thanks spez!

Could it be because r/ModCoord recommended moving to kbin, lemmy etc.?

Oh another theory is that Hexbear started federating. But who are Hexbear?

Seems like it is just bots.

Reddit's meltdown

Probably a significant number of bots tbh.

spez's continued jackassery. I made the switch about 24h ago.

Keep in mind too that the expiration date for many of the mainstream third party Reddit apps is June 30

Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

They’re starting to de-mod folks.

For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I've put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.

Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…

I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.

I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.

I don't even use third party apps. It's just that I can't give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.

it was reddit banning the mods of /r/mildlyinteresting that had me sign up with lemmy an hour ago.

They are back now, but still

Been signing up to reddit alts all week. Finally got to Lemmy.

It's the way tech disseminates into the world.

If you've been here for a month or more, you're a first adopter and the true heroes of our cause. You take up what makes no sense to -- what is untested and will likely be a waste of time.

These people then tell the early adopters, which is what you are if you've been here for a couple weeks.

Once we got on board, we told all our friends who join, and then the whole thing keeps snowballing.

Of course, Lemmy really has Reddit to thank for making us all balk enough to take a look at fediverse stuff. Mastodon really didn't do it for me when I checked on it a couple years ago, but this is awesome and totally makes sense.

Playing around with Pleroma now so I can follow users here!

Probably due to this- https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/19/23765895/reddit-hack-phishing-leak-api-pricing-steve-huffman

Got sick of Reddit, looked for alternatives, found sub.rehab, found Lemmy was common… here I am.

not that surprising really - many, MANY people are fed up with centralized link aggregation/social media/reddit in general & the fediverse is an excellent option

This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.

In my opinion, the output of the disastrous Zoom meeting with the moderators & community of /r/Blind .

Reddit leadership made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for their users. They essentially refused to answer essential questions for the disabled Reddit community.

I guess Spez thinks nobody will care as long as they get their fill of GIFs and pics? I have no idea. I'm not closing out my account, but whatever reddit intended to sell to me, I'm not buying it.

For me, LJ Dawson, the Dev of Sync for Reddit posted that he is making a Lemmy app. I was planning on leaving Reddit at the end of June, so I signed up! I'm extremely happy to be here!

Edited: messed up posting the Dev's name. Thanks @[email protected]

I’ve avoided Reddit since Sunday and am missing being able to see what’s going on without having to visit tech blogs/news sites/etc…

Decided might as well make the next jump and propel the death of Dig, I mean reddit

People that have ~1 week of ping time (as yours truly) are finally getting to their todo list item of checking alternatives to Reddit and making an account and first posts :)

I signed up and then went to bed. I'm assuming the world took that as a sign and followed me. Or perhaps I should cut down on the hard drugs, idk

There was a post that has code snippet that tells lemmy admins to turn on email verification and captcha.

And then lemmy.world admin turned off signup for a little while to clean up bot accounts.

Then account numbers jumped 84k in one day.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

This is getting so much larger! It's doubled again while active users aren't changing much. We may need to figure out this bot problem.