Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.
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GET READY FOR JULY 1st
Update: We are now past 140,000 users. Growth is still accelerating.
When I checked yesterday it was 91,000 users, it’s now 109,000 and counting up fast!
100,000 🎉
Stats can be found here: https://the-federation.info/platform/73 - this site has been hugged to death for the moment.
Stats can also be found here: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
I expect an even larger jump when on July 1s and onwards, that is where a lot of growth will come from.
This. Like the apps are still there functioning. I uninstalled Boost and Apollo as my thumb kept clicking on them…
god it’s terrifying and so true. I didn’t realize how addicated I was to apollo until muscle memory just kept clicking the damn app!
I’m surprised at how quick I flipped my addiction from Reddit to Lemmy…
I spend just as much time here as I did there. But its a happier time too.
with some of the kinks of lemmy i dont think im spending as much time as i was on reddit
but i am spending a decent amount and thats been awesome. i do think the more old school vibe is really effecting how i wanna connect here. its maybe less time but more quality
people have been really nice
im sure that will change at somepoint if our dreams become reality but its been a unique exp if nothing else.
It’s kinda making me want to less of a dick. It’s what the internet has turned me into since 2012. 1996-2011 was a good run though lol.
LOL i feel that for sure
def has that fresh, non jaded vibe so that helps
I’m gonna miss Boost so bad.
Hope the dev either releases the code or implements kafkars. I would really like to just continue using boost with lemmy
I keep suddenly finding myself using boost a few times daily when the instance I’m on goes down.
Out of curiosity, which app was your preference between the two? I’m on android, so I never used Apollo, but tbh when I saw it I hated looking at it. I was surprised to learn it was the number one app. Did it have better features or something?
It was pretty similar tbh. I liked both. I got an Android phone and an iPad sooo… Had no choice :)
Apollo is a bit heavier on the sliding gestures. Swipe right to upvote. Swipe aaalll the way right to downvote. Left to share, all the way left to favorite… People really liked this. I don’t mind it. Maybe cause I was on iPad? Like arrows are fine :)
The only feature Apollo had that I was missing in Boost was the scrubbing on gifs and videos. You could replay in slow-mo, pause or even go faster with such ease. It was really really nice.
I ended up having to rearrange my phone layout slightly, putting Mlem (how I’m accessing Lemmy) where I used to have Apollo. I did the same thing with Ivory (Mastodon) taking Twitter’s spot too
Had to remove RIF, my muscle memory was like yooo. I don’t even want to use it knowing it’s closing shop.
I love being a part of stuff like this.
It took reddit years and years to get to what it is today (well … a week ago), and I’m excited to be a part of something like that again.
It’s all of our jobs to build this place up to what Reddit used to be. Definitely attainable. My only concern is that the more technical part of Lemmy (federated and what not) will shrink the site’s critical mass and thus prevent it from being a major player on the internet.
But then again, that excuse was heard back when the current status quo of websites were taking off.
I think it needs a critical mass to keep enough content flowing, but being a major player on the Internet isn’t as desirable as it once was. A few million active users would be plenty. Once you get to Reddits size, undesirables are attracted… Companies want to advertise, governments take notice, news companies comment about everyday BS, and “investors” want to buy it and find ways to monetizing.
Good point. Once a website is too noticeable, it is much more scrutinized. This has been seen countless times and its much harder to have the free flow of information when everyone is in on it. Then again though, that’s why there are hundreds of instances, you can drop ship in the mainstream one and take a quieter approach.
Don’t forget scammers. The sub I was a regular in had 900k+ members and there were scam bots trying to farm karma with reposts, selling fake merch with stolen art etc. constantly, sometimes multiple at once. That basically never happened to the smaller subs I regularily visited, as they apparently weren’t “interesting” enough for those people. …and I have the feeling that this issue will get only worse with the planned reddit changes and whatnot, but that’s no longer my concern.
They said the same about crypto, but look at it now
Crypto is sullied by the profit motive, which Lemmy lacks; I have high hopes for the fediverse
Speaking the truth there mate
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, it’s still a niche interest and carries a lot of negative stigma, much of which is rightly deserved
Most importantly, contribute to the discussion and start discussion threads!!
If everyone sits around watching the party, refugees are gonna come, take a look around, see all the “yeah we beat reddit” posts and nothing else, get bored and leave.
Yup. As the saying goes, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Gonna take some time.
the community over on reddit saw the shape that shit’s gonna turn next month and now we’re all scattering and looking for places to land. this platform is close enough to what we came from that heaps of us are landing here.
this is the busiest instance, by the way. not sure about other people but i’m maintaining an account on this instance separate to my primary account simply because i can access stuff faster from here
I likewise am here because of Reddit’s recent idiocy.
Same
Wow! And it was around 11000 last weekend?! This is great!
I was going to ask what the number used to be! I am new as of last week, and even from when I started, it’s insane to see posts with hundreds of upvotes. Crazy upswing in such a short amount of time. I wonder how long time Lemmy users feel about all this.
Not exactly a long time lemmy user, but a long time lurker of reddit clones since before lemmy existed, and I’ve definitely spent time on lemmy before it was cool – it is absolutely amazing to see this platform take off. Lemmy was the first reddit clone where I thought to myself “they figured it out!!”
No other project was seriously talking about federation, for reasons which escape me to this day. What are the alternatives? We all go back to running disconnected, individual forums? We all go to some other enormous site which is guaranteed to have the same fate as reddit? How was this complicated conceptually? Lemmy got the right answer and is implementing it well enough that it’s actually got the potential to gain traction.
You would not want to try to replace reddit with the tools that came before lemmy.
Remember voat? Lol
I stayed away from that one. But I remember lol.
It was a shiny clean looking old reddit with great intentions and probably closer to my vision of speech but hot damn it was either people or campaigns because it got super racist real quick. Some have mentioned though that a lot didn’t seem genuine.
Not surprising seeing the crap that’s going on with reddit. I came over from it too this week.
I just joined today. Taking refuge from Reddit. I hope this community builds up!
I haven’t used Reddit in years, but I moved here because my brother, a regular Redditor, informed me of this neat alternative and I felt like checking it out. Hopefully many are doing the same. Otherwise I lurk in old-school forums. I prefer the Reddit model though, so I quite like this Fediverse.
it’s pretty nice here i think. it feels more personal than on reddit.
New communities often do and you gain all those benefits from being smaller where the general atmosphere is a bit friendlier and more helpful as people are invested and want to make it happen. :) That’s honestly part of why I jumped ship to here now. At 100K users we’re starting to reach critical mass here where of all these users, it trickles down a few dozens at least into more or less niche Lemmy communities.
123000 now.
132,124!
Really impressive! Also the overall vibe is super positive. Hope it keeps growing. There is a lot of potential.
Not gonna lie in the last 3 days I’ve commented and had good engagement than I’ve had for months on Reddit. Also day 3 with no reddit for me.
Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5
who is the .5?
I have one leg mb
Musk has a Lemmy account?
I dunno, but I’m sure they’re alright.
Huffman wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
consider this my half comment to try and ba…
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Five of those were from me. Hedging my bets across multiple instances. Can’t imagine I’m the only one?
Five?? I just have an nsfw and a sfw one.
Why bother hedging?
As an example, Beehaw just de-federated from lemmy.world and from sh.itjust.works. But since I primarily drop anchor at startrek.website (and since I’ve replicated my subscriptions across all my accounts), I just flip over to that account and still have access to everything.
Oh? Why did beehaw defederate? Does that mean beehaw is cut off from everyone else?
Expected reasons. Federated systems make moderation more difficult, compounded with poor availability of moderation tools on the platform today. https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Damn most of my communities were from beehaw. I didn’t join the instance to spare the server load, but now I think I might join it directly since I don’t want to make another account on a different instance that may get defederated later on down the line.
Ugh, Beehaw denied my registration so I guess just can’t get their content anymore.
You can access their content, but you can’t really participate, unless you have an account on one of the instances they’re still federated with.
Damn, I just assumed they were screening to ensure real users acting in good faith. Didn’t expect them to actually be rejecting people.
I think they’re pretty serious about the last essay part.
Why did it leave lemmy.world?
deleted by creator
They say because of the open registration and acceptance.
Lol, same
Same here
Not at all, just started on this one in case my main goes down.
We’re just getting started!
This is amazing news. I’m thinking we’ve reached critical mass where it’s going to be self sustaining and worth using.
Nice to see the growth! I came over from reddit, hearing about Lemmy when the blackout was being planned. Lurked a few days and finally joined today! I really like Lemmy.
I’ve been on reddit for a looong time (arrived there during the migration from Digg) and have seen other migrations from reddit and this one seems most successful and diverse. Way to go reddit for pissing off thousands of subreddits instead of just one or two. The upside of that for us is a variety of communities created in our new home so there’s much less of a reason to go back to reddit. Many thanks to everyone creating, contributing, modding, and admining here!
Aside from maybe a few niche subreddits until they find their way over here or I find a replacement community somewhere else, as of now I don’t plan on going back to reddit. I haven’t been there since the day before the blackout. If I’m really curious about what’s going on at reddit, I just check teddit as long as it’s available.
I actually like the interface a LOT better than (old) Reddit. I refused to use the new interface because “yuck!” and old.reddit.com doesn’t have a “dark mode,” so I view this as an upgrade, visually (along with other UX aspects). I’m definitely sticking!
RES has (had?) a dark mode for old reddit.
yep it does. RES was such a great addon made by such cool people. Cant wait to see the kind of things those people are making for Lemmy.
Someones already made a browser extension that simplifies hyperlinking to other instance’s communities across the Lemmyverse.
They potential is huge because it’s all open. If the community really wants something, it’ll be done.
Wait this has a dark mode? How do I enable that!
The site seems to be down?
Yeah it’s probably been hugged to death for the time being
Interesting. I saw a huge decrease in number of nodes (from like 190 to 150) for a bit, wondered what happened, and then it stopped loading. I guess it really was hugged to death
Found another site to use here https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Found this other site to use since the-federation is down.
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@cedarmesa @c2h6
Diaspora is one of the oldest of the oldest. Much older than mastodon. They’re federated too, but not on the same network.Mastodon and lemmy uses ActivityPub. (Mastodon used to run on OStatus, but then switched to ActivituPub later) Diaspora uses its own protocol and refuses to ever switch to a most recent one.
Some fediverse services however (friendica and hubzilla which are kinda facebook-like) are using multiple protocols and can federate with both mastodon and diaspora.
Beats me, I’m new here too
Same here - newbie user. Hope to share things with this community
