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!

  • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2471·
    2 years ago

    It’s so wonderful that Reddit, by making a decision that benefits no user/mod/sub, and actively harms users/mods/subs, all in the name of corporate greed, gave Lemmy the boost it needed to become a viable alternative to Reddit.

    Thank you, Spez. We couldn’t have done this without you.

  • amanaftermidnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1582·
    2 years ago

    We definitely felt the ship groaning through all this. Thankfully the Ruud-er skillfully navigated through this, and the software update on top.

    Anyways, welcome to Lemmy 17!

  • murk02@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 years ago

    First comment for me! 11 years on Reddit, never talked much but lurked a lot. I can’t use their official app so I’m here now and looking forward to see the community grow!

  • Calzoner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    2 years ago

    Honestly, its already a good amount of content. People reply, people upvote, people post interesting articles. Its filling the void for me already.

      • gornar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Glad you’re here, a devastating blow to reddit if this is where you live now! Welcome!

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            2 years ago

            This is what reddit doesn’t get when they say it’s only a small fraction of users who left.

            Redditors aren’t created equally. The vast majority lurk and maybe don’t even upvote.

            You put in more work than a lot of professional journalists, and provided the content for free

  • trouser_mouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 years ago

    This is beautiful to see - I understand Reddit is a company that needs to make a profit, but the way they have treated their users and unpaid staff is shocking (but not unexpected). The fact it also heavily impacts users with additional accessibility requirements is terrible.

    Will be fun in a way to watch Reddit try to claw back what has happened.

    Give it 12 months it will likely be a wreck along with the current CEO who will probably be given the boot.

    I’m old enough to have seen many services go through this: AOL, MSN, MySpace, Fark, Slashdot, Digg, Something Awful, etc. Reddit (and maybe Twitter) are just next in line to realise they are not too big to fail. Hopefully followed by Meta.

    • starclaude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      the thing is just like how people thought r/antiwork would be gone, turns out after some time it regained it users and activities, so I guess lets see if reddit users would be back, especially the amount of people browse from pc is not a small number either, I believe big subreddit will still alive or retained its user just like usual

    • spaxxor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I’m old enough to remember when this sort of thing was a regular thing, especially with bulletin boards popping up and burning down with regularity. Apart from crowd sourced troubleshooting and the like, reddit hasn’t really done much for me.

    • Urik@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I know Slashdot’s time has passed but didn’t know there was drama involved.
      Was there any Digg v4 like event that led to its fall?

      • trouser_mouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        It’s quite a way back now, so my memory is a bit fuzzy! I think there were redesigns and the site was sold to a company who mismanaged a few elements. I seem to remember a lot of noise on the site at the time, people complaining etc and then a large number moved away. I’m sure someone can fill in the details in a more reliable way haha.

        I remember Digg used to be great too - between that and Stumble Upon you could find so much awesome stuff!

        I suspect Reddit will die a much slower death, as it is just so big and widely used and the exodus of users doesn’t feel as huge. It will be interesting to see how everything unfolds.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          If I recall correctly, Digg made some weirdo policy about officially recognized channels had priority over community posts?

          Claiming they were trying to improve the quality and trustworthiness of their content.

          They also made a redesign, so frontpage became 90% pictures, more suitable for people with zero attention span.

          As I recall it, Digg “died” super fast after that. Of course technically Digg still exist, but it’s nothing compared to when at its height, it became an internet buzzword much like “to Google it” still is to day.

          • trouser_mouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            Yes! Digg was pretty dramatic in how it fell from grace I think, whereas some other platforms have limped along slowly for quite a while after their prime, a bit like me.

            • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              Yes the problem was that they changed the concept entirely, and the change was to a concept that simply didn’t work. The idea of “approved” content, was so lame everybody left.

              Personally I had already left for reddit at that time, but the original idea with Digg was pretty cute though, they had a little icon of a spade, and you could digg up or down. Same as up/down vote on reddit.

              Somehow reddit was just better, with it’s way more text based design, maybe because it looked a bit like a colorcoding editor for programmers. for whatever reason reddit quickly had way better content than Digg, despite Digg was more famous and had a clear head start.

  • Machefi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 years ago

    Honestly, I didn’t believe this would happen. I thought all who wanted to migrate have done this already and there would be maybe a couple hundred people joining us today. I’m glad I was wrong. Gives me hope in people of the Internet standing up for what they deserve.

    • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      19·
      2 years ago

      I didn’t do it till last minute cause I’m lazy and hate creating accounts for every little thing these days (though I definitely prefer a new account than login with Google or whatnot). However I loved Reddit is Fun and the CEO has made some less than satisfactory decisions so it was time to pull up stakes and move on, again, though 15 years since the Digg move it had it’s time, now for something else. I thought it was amusing I didn’t even realize spez was the CEO till this recent but, I just always saw him posting but never commenting so I ignored him years ago. Figure you should do more than spam links on these sites.

    • popemichael@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      I fully converted yesterday because I was holding out hope that reddit would do the right thing.

      We vote with our dollars and our actions. Consider this a vote for freedom.

    • chikaygo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      I made a Lemmy account a couple weeks ago and started getting familiar with the fediverse. Then I decided to create a different user on Lemmy.world so I think I registered this one yesterday.

      For the last 30 days I’ve still used Reddit because it has the most activity and it’s been like “this is the last time!!” kinda feels. But now I’ve discovered wefwef, and I’m not going to be using Reddit anymore so here I am.

      I think a lot of people are similar…nostalgia and ease of use kept everyone mostly using Reddit and now the people who care about the whole issue will start contributing here.

    • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      I accessed reddit through the Sync app and actually didn’t realise it was just going to stop working. I’m still not really sure what’s going on here, this is my first experience of the fediverse. I like learning new things.

  • Scarronline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 years ago

    As a new user from reddit, wanted to say thanks for welcoming us and working hard to accommodate us!

  • gsa32@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
    331·
    2 years ago

    Best Lemmy instance on the fediverse. I appreciate the work the admins here have done

  • MudFlap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    302·
    2 years ago

    I peeked around a bit with Connect (android) for a while, and the things that stood out the most to me was the small size and sluggishness of the whole thing. BUT what also stuck out far more were pins of maintenance because of growth & updates of constant hard work to increase performance, and an interface that (while slightly jank) is infinitely superior to the official reddit app. It’s good to see continued growth, especially in such a welcoming community. The problems are providing to be simple growing pains and it’s great to be here.

      • arefx@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        I believe they changed how they payout to streamers, essentially cutting their income by around 25% and then keeping it for themselves. Also stricter rules on sponsorships and how they are advertised on your stream. I don’t really know the details I don’t use twitch just what I remember reading.