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!
As soon as a stable app happens that’ll be amazing.
Sync for Lemmy is coming soon which should be one of the best apps around if it perfectly can replicate the (now removed) Reddit version.
Immigrant from Reddit is Fun here.
I found the comment that mentioned Summit is quite close to RIF helpful, so here I am!
Summit is not even close to RIF. I am waiting for Boost.
I’m a RIF widower… I’m finding Liftoff to be a great mobile app. It doesn’t seem to get much love but it’s stable, easy to use and actively developed. I’m feeling right at home with it 🙂
Why is it that Iemmy.world not opening? I’m trying to open it in my phone’s Brave browser
Given the… frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and…
I mean it’s getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve.
When I joined reddit more than a decade ago we also had frequent periods of instability, I think this was around the time digg users fled to reddit.
I am confident it’ll all be sorted out along the way.
Good luck infrastructure teams!
In.
As a new user from reddit, wanted to say thanks for welcoming us and working hard to accommodate us!
So glad I accidentally signed up on the best server. I don’t regret my decision. Now that I have WefWef, I’m sold. Love it here. Love the server. Love the community and subscribed to multiple communities in the fediverse too. Learning a lot!
First comment on Lemmy. Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help us get started?
So glad to see Lemmy get big
I’m here after ten years with Baconreader. Really sad it’s gone, but I’m super hopeful about my future here! If anyone knows of any communities that enjoy watches or fountain pens, let me know!
@BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world Enjoy :)
FYI, sub.rehab is great for finding if/where your favorite communities have migrated.
Edit: added watches community and formatting.
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.
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.
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
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?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.
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.
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.
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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.
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I finally made an account after things got stable. A +1 for the active user count. I mainly lurk, but it’s actually compelling to engage here.
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What app are you guys using for Lemmy now ? I’m on Jerboa . I find it laggy while scrolling. What’s a better alternative?
I like Jerboa so far. I haven’t experienced any lag But it’s annoying that when I go back to the list of posts or comments, the cursor automatically jumps to the top and I don’t want to scroll back to where I’ve been.
wefwef.app doesn’t have this problem. It’s also smooth. However, I prefer a native app than browsing via a web browser.
Connect for Lemmy is amazing.
There’s also wefwef, which seems to be a clone of Apollo.
Popular Reddit apps like Sync and Boost are currently in the process of making Lemmy ports.
I’m using Connect as well and finding it easier and less buggy to use than I was Liftoff or Jerboa. Digging the site so far, I hope it keeps growing!
I’m using Connect as well and finding it easier and less buggy to use than I was Liftoff or Jerboa. Digging the site so far, I hope it keeps growing!
You can also try installing the PWA (if your browser supports it). On https://sh.itjust.works, Somewhere on the browsers web page options, there should be something along “Install” or “Add to home screen”. PWA is basically the website but without browser controls, so it feels more native.
I like Jerboa, now that lemmy.world is updated to 0.18.1 it is working fine.
I like connect for lemmy
Liftoff for Android has been a solid alternative.
I am using ‘Connect for Lemmy’ on Android.
Well there’s many as of now. They’re in early stages and errors occur on and off, I guess that’s okay. I suggest you check out Thunder, Connect for Lemmy and liftoff. These work great and I like Connect’s UI. You can WefWef for an experience very close to Apollo, keep in mind it’s a web app, but it works really great. I suggest you try all the apps and see which one you like the best. Here’s the list: Lemmotif Summit Connect Thunder WefWef. P.S Do check out Kbin-social. It’s federates with Mastodon, I think, if you’re into that.
This is my first comment on Lemmy. I’m still learning the ropes but about to nuke my 10 year old reddit account with probably at this point tens of thousands of comments - content for Reddit.
Welcome newcomers to the fediverse!
