Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.
🎉 🎉🎉🎉
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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
This. Like the apps are still there functioning. I uninstalled Boost and Apollo as my thumb kept clicking on them…
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
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.
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.