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!

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The only good bud is a dead bug!
I’m from Beunos Aries and I say, kill them all!
Tell me more about this “dong”
Haha me too :D
I dong my part for Lemmy.world everyday!!
Edit: awww he edited his post :/
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
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?
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Lenny ftw, so much better than Reffit
Not Lenny!
I was waiting for a MicroWave thread about this 😁
Congratulations everyone for this milestone! 🥳
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Wasn’t lemmy.world only created in mid June?
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Zuck, Spez, and Elon can suck my nuts!
Just documenting my “I was there” moment.
Exactly. In a “this is for the future” way.
This is the way.
I was here too!
Me too, it’s amazing to see how quickly Lemmy is growing now
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
I absolutely love it. I can’t wait for the fediverse to thrive with lemmy integration for peertube and an imgur alternative
What the hell ? Feels like it was sitting at 30k just a couple days ago, insane growth.
And still silent on the status of Meta defederation.
I believe Ruud has stated elsewhere (on Mastodon or whatever it is called) that they won’t do anything preemptively, but they’re keeping a close eye on what Meta does.
Okay. Thanks for the update 👍
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
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.
Hmm… are you here for boost? That’s why I joined Lemmy!
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?)
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.
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.
Just a week and a half ago, we were celebrating going from #2 to #1 most populous instance. And just 2 weeks before that, I had no idea what a lemmy was.
It’s like catching a nice surf wave.
I’m not going back to Reddit, that’s for sure. Unless…they come up with an i486 theme…🤔
Very happy to be part of this community - feels like home to me!
It’s amazing how well it handles the load now compared to just a few weeks before
Not only is Rudd doing and amazing job as admin of the instance, they are also really transparent ab ob it the challenges in their frequent updates!

















