lemmy.world just reached 1000 users.
Please remember that the server was created June 1st! So still might notice some startup issues… but so far so good! Welcome @all!
At this rate we’ll hit 2000 in the next hour…
You can thank reddit CEO lol, he just held the most pathetic AMA I’ve seen, people are even angrier than before :D
p.s. also watch out for next Monday, that’s when the reddit blackout begins
Are you personally paying the server costs? How can we help subsidize?
Ah. There’s a donation link on the front page. Just set up a recurring donation.
I would totally donate for running costs.
At this point you will be probably the biggest instance before the start of the new week 😂
Well let’s see if it doesn’t crash before that. I can scale the hardware but not sure about scaling the software yet…
Since the front end is TS docker it should be easy to scale with kubernetes. I have no idea about the rust backend though.
Yes but there’s no scaling that helps bad queries :-)
Is there somewhere the numbers are tracked?
I use grafana for that. Might make that public someday
This makes me happy for Lemmy, lemmy.world, and of course Grafana is amazing
aiii whoooo!
My first comment, can’t wait to use Lemmy for the next 15 years.
Fuck /u/spez!
Ah, you must also have been part of the original Digg exodus then?
Yes but I actually liked Kevin, I enjoyed all the side video podcast and skits they did on the side.
Oh yeah the whole gang was great for a while, until it all got fucked.
I still dream of tikibar TV once and awhile
And slashdot before that. Narwhals and whisky and all that. But we don’t talk about usenet. And here we are again.
PS it’s way too easy to accidentally block people on here. And then I had to go to a deeply buried settings page to unblock you again.
Thanks for the unblock. And hey, you learned something new. I’m actually thinking of going back on Usenet.
Why only 15 years?! Why can do better!
Great thing about fediverse, maybe @ruup goes full blown tyrannical, we can go over to another server.
If it’s possible to build perpetual social media, this is how it would look
I can Digg this place
Hello fellow Digg refugee.
Over 2k5 already. Stats page says 2.52k
Yup, that’s how fast it goes!
where can I see the stats?
At least on the mobile web page, there is a button near the top of the page that says Sidebar. That will give basic stats like total users on the instance.
Is this where the cool kids are hanging these days? (Just joined as a refugee from that other place)
No just the grumpy old people. 😄
Dammit! Why does everywhere I go turn out to be where the grumpy old people hang out?
Oh…
It’s a mystery!
That’s great! I remember just a few days ago that it had only 100 users, it’s growing quickly!
Just noticed lemmy.world is now 1 of the 4 instances recommended on join-lemmy. Congratulations on that too!
Just signed up myself! Long time RIF/old.reddit user, hoping to find new (better!) communities. Hello everyone!
Same here! ✊
👋
Hello fellow reddit refugees. Very interested in learning Lemmy and figuring out how contribute to the community.
Good evening! All new to me too! Looking forward to figuring things out for a new start!
Hi from beehaw! Welcome to the fediverse and glad to have all of you join us!
appreciate you providing this service ♥️
Wasn’t it at like 200 just 2-3 days ago? That’s a massive increase!
Yeah the server was just installed June 1st. Growth is crazy.
(But I’ve seen crazier with mastodon.world, which had 4000 new users per hour at the peak…
There is still time to see that sort of growth on here, particularly when reddit goes dark next week or shortly after that
It seems a bit laggy to me, but that’s hardly surprising. I hope we can form a good little community of outsiders here! 👍
Can you tell me what’s laggy? Only thing I noticed is the ‘Post’ or ‘Reply’ that takes too long.
Pretty much everything has a bit of lag on my end. Not complaining, I understand why, just letting you know.
The post thing is weird. Even when I’m on lemmy.world, but post on communities from other instances it seems pretty fast. But posting on a local community is slow. Very weird. Locks on a table somewhere?
Seeing the same behaviour here.
I get the same delay posting from this instance to @beehaw as well… :(
I’m guessing it’s the larger instances that are lagging due to the sudden amount of users that have joined.
Most new users tend to join the bigger ones and that exacerbates the problem.
Edit: This comment took ~8 seconds.
@fedcon @lemmyworld that’s my guess as well, same thing with Mastadon
Replying takes a good 6 or 7 seconds for me right now.
I’m still taking some time to post but it’s certainly better than before your upgrade.
EDIT: Still ~10 seconds or so for this comment.
Yeah, that’s gonna need some troubleshooting…
The first thing I commented this morning seemed faster but of course once I mention it I jinx myself and it’s about the same as it was, for me anyway. Doesn’t bother me too much though, I know it’s a new thing and a learning curve for everybody.
I’m a noob at this but could the distance between the user and the server location have an effect? Of course the latancy shouldn’t be 10 sec but if there is some wonky routing going on idk. As I said I’m very nob at this
That’s great. Is this like the main page or what?
Another Reddit refugee here. I guess after June 30th member numbers will explode?
I hope. So far my friends seem hesitant to leave Reddit.
They don’t have to leave leave. They can just join here and reduce the time they give reddit. Little by little they can just get out of that and into other stuff.
Ah, give it time. Change is scary. And it is easy to be complacent. But ‘luckily’ Reddit will chase them to here.
I think the biggest impediment (besides the learning curve of the new format) is the fact that there are many more users and much more activity on Reddit. It will take time to build enough of a user base on lemmy to convince people to join.
That being said, the subreddit blackout starting June 12th will remove that advantage for Reddit. Even if most of the subreddits only participate for 48 hours, that might be sufficient to drive enough people to lemmy that it becomes perceived as a viable alternative.
Fingers crossed!
Congrats! Thanks for accepting me. I can’t wait to see where this site goes!
