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!

  • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2132·
    1 year ago

    It’s so wonderful that Reddit, by making a decision that benefits no user/mod/sub, and actively harms users/mods/subs, all in the name of corporate greed, gave Lemmy the boost it needed to become a viable alternative to Reddit.

    Thank you, Spez. We couldn’t have done this without you.

  • amanaftermidnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    160·
    1 year ago

    We definitely felt the ship groaning through all this. Thankfully the Rudd-er skillfully navigated through this, and the software update on top.

    Anyways, welcome to Lemmy 17!

  • murk02@lemmy.worldEnglish
    96·
    1 year ago

    First comment for me! 11 years on Reddit, never talked much but lurked a lot. I can’t use their official app so I’m here now and looking forward to see the community grow!

  • Calzoner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, its already a good amount of content. People reply, people upvote, people post interesting articles. Its filling the void for me already.

  • Machefi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I didn’t believe this would happen. I thought all who wanted to migrate have done this already and there would be maybe a couple hundred people joining us today. I’m glad I was wrong. Gives me hope in people of the Internet standing up for what they deserve.

    • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t do it till last minute cause I’m lazy and hate creating accounts for every little thing these days (though I definitely prefer a new account than login with Google or whatnot). However I loved Reddit is Fun and the CEO has made some less than satisfactory decisions so it was time to pull up stakes and move on, again, though 15 years since the Digg move it had it’s time, now for something else. I thought it was amusing I didn’t even realize spez was the CEO till this recent but, I just always saw him posting but never commenting so I ignored him years ago. Figure you should do more than spam links on these sites.

    • popemichael@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      I fully converted yesterday because I was holding out hope that reddit would do the right thing.

      We vote with our dollars and our actions. Consider this a vote for freedom.

    • chikaygo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I made a Lemmy account a couple weeks ago and started getting familiar with the fediverse. Then I decided to create a different user on Lemmy.world so I think I registered this one yesterday.

      For the last 30 days I’ve still used Reddit because it has the most activity and it’s been like “this is the last time!!” kinda feels. But now I’ve discovered wefwef, and I’m not going to be using Reddit anymore so here I am.

      I think a lot of people are similar…nostalgia and ease of use kept everyone mostly using Reddit and now the people who care about the whole issue will start contributing here.

    • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I accessed reddit through the Sync app and actually didn’t realise it was just going to stop working. I’m still not really sure what’s going on here, this is my first experience of the fediverse. I like learning new things.

    • BedSharkPal@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      The sooner we realize corporate control of social media was a massive mistake, the better the world will be. Imagine if corporate social media algos that drive engagement through ragebaiting hadn’t existed for the last 10 years…

  • trouser_mouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • ThatGuyFromWork@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    I am one of those people who migrated as I grew up with an internet that was full of small communities and interesting content uncontrolled by greedy corporations. When I found Reddit back in 2012, I thought it was amazing and going to be a bastion of information for a modern internet. Well, now we know that wasn’t the case thanks to chasing the almighty dollar. Hopefully this is the point in time where we can steer this ship around and bring the control back to the users.

  • Scarronline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    As a new user from reddit, wanted to say thanks for welcoming us and working hard to accommodate us!

  • MudFlap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    313·
    1 year ago

    I peeked around a bit with Connect (android) for a while, and the things that stood out the most to me was the small size and sluggishness of the whole thing. BUT what also stuck out far more were pins of maintenance because of growth & updates of constant hard work to increase performance, and an interface that (while slightly jank) is infinitely superior to the official reddit app. It’s good to see continued growth, especially in such a welcoming community. The problems are providing to be simple growing pains and it’s great to be here.