Created on June 1 of this year, lemmy.world quickly grew to 51k users and then blew up after reddit’s API debacle on July 1, doubling to a whopping 100k in just 9 days later!
I’ve only been using Lenny for a day and a half, but I’ve been having a great time. The memes are 10/10 and everything else is coming together nicely. This is already my Reddit replacement, genuinely.
LETS GO LENNY!!!
Ha, I was laughing at someone else writing Lenny earlier. Never considered that it was just auto-correct and that I should be careful not to do the same 😅
Petition to change the lemmy.world logo to Lenny
Yes. Where do I sign lol
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If lemmy goes in the wrong direction and everyone abandons (water)ship, Lenny would be a good pejorative. After all, who better to unwitting snap a rodent’s neck than Lenny?
Lenny ftw, so much better than Reffit
Not Lenny!
I came due to protest, but staying for quality of fediverse users (posting from kbin)
Just documenting my “I was there” moment.
Exactly. In a “this is for the future” way.
This is the way.
I was here too!
I wasn’t here… wait crud
Would you like to know more?
The only good bud is a dead bug!
I’m from Beunos Aries and I say, kill them all!
I am parting my do!
Pretty sure Lemmy is getting a ton of reddit users now that they pretty much ruined the user experience by making 3rd party app developers to pay money to use their api.
I just created an account here… I won’t be returning to reddit!
Welcome to the Fediverse. To acknowledge your arrival, please accept the Lemmy Lemon Basket award.
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Went from lurker to user today actually. It wasn’t even the apps it was just the awful attitude towards users.
Well I’m loving Lemmy.world so far. Feels refreshing in here.
I wasn’t commenting much on Reddit, but in here I feel like participating.
Congrats and thanks Lemmy.world admin @ruud@lemmy.world
Hello from Kbin. It’s nice that we can hang out.
waves across the tubes
Al Gore invented those you know.
The internet is not something you just dump something on.
Good for you lemmy.world, congrats!
BTW, lemmy.world is #1 in the node sort by total users at the-federation.info
Now the trick is to keep the instance running well with that crazy high user load.
The devs have been working their butts off. They make post with complete transparency about their growing pains. The devs of leemy.world and others get together and troubleshoot as a team, especially lemmy.ml. everything is posted on GitHub. It’s awesome to see and support. I’ve been here for about four weeks now, and it has been fun to watch it grow, and participate in the user community.
I’ve checked out the Reddit popular tab a few times recently. The quality has declined immensely.
The reposting has gotten to a whole new level, and the amount of content pulled straight from tiktok and twitter has increased. Also started to see some very uncanny subreddits climbing into r/all.
I’m done loading that place all together pretty much.
The third party app I used for reddit said that this is the platform they were going to focus on. That’s why I came. Those are the people I want to support. The people that make the experience better. Once they release an app I’ll buy it first day
Hmm… are you here for boost? That’s why I joined Lemmy!
Sync for reddit show such message, can’t waut for it to switch to Lemmy.
Also feel free to support Lemmy itself by donating to the project
Yep, same. That’s why I’m here now. On the Connect app though, but it feels similar to Sync.
What the hell ? Feels like it was sitting at 30k just a couple days ago, insane growth.
Wasn’t lemmy.world only created in mid June?
June 1, I think. Hitting 100k users in just over a month is kind of intense.
Zuck, Spez, and Elon can suck my nuts!
I was waiting for a MicroWave thread about this 😁
Congratulations everyone for this milestone! 🥳
I’ve been having a little too much fun on lemmy. 😁
Or you might be 1% of 1%. I think it is great. At least until I arbitarily decide it is not. ;)
I’m trying to keep up with the fediverse jargon, but what the heck is a MicroWave thread?
Just done by Microwave, an enthusiastic poster
Oh geez. Got it. Thank you!
No worries, have a good day!
This is awesome!!! Glad to be here before the first 100k and before the change to Voyager from WefWef.
Very happy to be part of this community - feels like home to me!
This is the place to be. I’m hoping some communities jump over. I’ve seen a few use discord that is not a good replacement at lol.
I just signed up the other day once I discovered the dev for Sync was starting development on a Lemmy app.
I wanted to ask regular Lemmy users… What is your opinion on the influx of people from Reddit? Do you fear it will change the social atmosphere here, or do you welcome new users to the community?
I’ve seen plenty of posts venting about Reddit already, and I imagine that’ll probably get tiring really fast for long lasting Lemmy users (Lemmyers?)
First, it is not just lemmy, it is the fediverse (replying to you from kbin.social - my preferred cup of tea). Second, I see that the mostly good people/posters are leaving Reddit, I do not see, for example, personal attacks when people disagree here in fediverse, I see no removed/moderated comments or posts. I am sure it happens here too, it is just so rare… it reminds me of the days of mass migration from digg. So, at least for now I think this is great, and it separates people who are ready to stand for principles from the rest. Welcome.
I agree, the vibe has generally been more upbeat and optimistic, with the occasional venting. Thank you for the welcome! I’m still figuring out how the fediverse works, but it makes sense more or less. Hopefully more people can see the benefit of truly being in control of your content you put out, as well as the content that you see.
Yea so far it’s great. I’d imagine once it’s easier to access, well see a slow decline in quality discourse and content, but that’s all things, so I’m just enjoying the moment tbh.
hopefully the principles of federated networking will help keep that to a minimum though? It’ll be interesting to see how people that are used to Twitter/Reddit will adapt to their counterparts when theyre so used to being kept in a very defined box.
