The Lemmy user base passed 150,000 in total users.
Man I came here to post this LOL
Lemmy is far less mature than reddit but at least its still improving and growing
The most important is to keep up the momentum. Users don’t mean anything if there’s no content. We all need to keep posting stuff and keep actively disucsing stuff!
That’s what I love about it, though. The fact that it is still maturing means that we as a community have a say on how Lemmy will evolve.
To be honest, the fact that such immature software is capable of being a viable alternative to one of the biggest websites on the internet is already super impressive.
Let’s see where we will head in a couple of years.
Damn right. I’ve been using Reddit for years, and after this shitshow I moved to Lemmy and honestly, it doesn’t feel that much different. I don’t make content, nor do I moderate, so I just scroll and lurk, and comment sometimes, and Lemmy has a steep, extremely short learning curve (you can call it simply a barrier to entry), but after understanding very few basic concepts, this shit feels as natural as Reddit. Besides, I’m testing the Memmy app for iOS and it’s improving exponentially. I seriously feel like Lemmy can become a good alternative, for real, not for the memes.
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I really hope the momentum holds and the numbers will continue to grow!
I’m really excited to be here, Lemmy feels like reddit in the golden years (long gone).
I completely agree! And I don’t think we’ve really started to see people leave reddit yet, that’ll happen when the 3PAs stop working
Oh true! Once reddit floods with sewage from bot posts and mods can’t deal, lemmy is going to flood with users!
I do expect that it will taper off eventually and then drop for a bit before leveling out (not being pessimistic, it’s just a simple fact that much of the current growth of Lemmy, or for that matter kbin or other reddit alternatives, is due to people leaving reddit, and eventually everyone that wants to leave who is willing to consider this place will have come over, so the growth will stop or at least revert to a more “normal” pace, and not everyone will end up liking Lemmy, and so there will be some fraction of people that don’t stay long once the hype over people moving from reddit has died down). However, it should still stabilize somewhere much higher than things were before the migration, so my hope is that it gets enough momentum that the number of people that remain when this incident is over is enough to sustain a functional community.
Realistic assessment but the way reddit’s ceo is going ,I think we will see more exodus 1st july and again shortly after that, I do think reddits bad news train has only just left the station.
Agreed. So much less noise.
Have to agree, I don’t really mind how many total users or active users there are at this point, there’s enough talk to engage in proper conversations now
Yup finally seeing a lot of good conversations now. Which was really always the best part of Reddit.
agreed, I have found that interacting with content here has been more meaningful and the interactions to be more welcoming. Happy weekend to you!
Happy weekend back to you mate
I have 2 weeks off whoop!
Congrats!
Reddit is blocked in my country so I have to open reddit using dns, because lemmy is already there, this is an opportunity to find a community forum for a replacement for reddit in my country.
Why the fuck is reddit blocked in your country? Where do you live if I may ask?
I just joined, but I’m excited to watch Lemmy grow!
Same. Lemmy can only get better. Reddit, I’m not sure.
Been trying to make an account here for like a week. Kept hanging, but it finally went through this time!
Wooohoooooo!!! No one in this thread has an account older than 2 weeks.
The website now says that Lemmy is over 200,000 people, wow! This growth is amazing, I just hope the people joining are a bit more concrete though, and don’t treat this place as a fad.
I have sync on my phone for now, going to be hard to delete. But, Jerboa has been great and the community here is nice. I definitely plan on staying for a long time after 13 years on reddit.
You think it’s big now, just wait until July. Reddit’s api changes are going to force people off of the site in droves. Right now it’s a lot of noise and some movement, but a lot of the regular user base hasn’t actually felt any effects yet. Once the changes make the site unusable for a lot of people there will be a lot more.
As someone who just deleted Apollo and tried to use the Reddit iOS app - this is exactly correct - site is unusable on the official app. People will flee.
Reddit app has 10-15x the downloads as apollo mate
And? You’re implying a non sequitur.
95% of the people using reddit on mobile are already on official reddit app. Apollo going down isn’t going to cause a massive flee, just a portion of the small userbase that is Apollo users.
You are assuming those people are still using the app.
When I first tried to use reddit on a phone, I downloaded the official app too. I just never used it after discovering it’s useless.
Reddit has their numbers, obviously, but we don’t.
Neat, anyone else having problems upvoting anything? I try but it just goes right back down.
From my experience it’s just not showing on your end but after a while it updates the votes
yeah, just a little buggy sometimes
Same
Sometimes the site goes a little buggy. Sometimes i get 503 but i just wait, refresh, or i heard someone say too they have lemmy and kbin account and use the other when one is down xD I think it’s still adjusting to having so many users
I honestly wish I knew about this sooner. I like the idea of something being CEO-free
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I’m sure there’s no way to tell, but I wonder how many are duplicate accounts to span different instances.
I think the best way to judge success is to look at the overall engagement and that one is very high.
Yeah, if I’m anything to go by, you’d need to divide these figures by at least three to get to the number of new people. Still, it’s not a bad start.
You could probably find some ways to get a few of em but i don’t know.
You shouldn’t really need more than one or two accounts tho. Talking from kbin :)What would be the use case for having two accounts?
Using different accounts to route around and still access content at instances that defederated from your original account’s instance.
You can still view content from instances that defederated from your instance as long as your instance didn’t block them.
You can still follow defederated content as long as you follow the users/instance?
In my experience, yes. I can see BeeHaw’s content event though they defederated from my home instance a couple of days ago. I’ve also commented on some of their posts, which is weird…
Your comments won’t show for beehaw or other instances, only people on your instance can see those comments.
Reddit killing 3rd party apps can be a blessing in disguise.
No kidding, I definitely prefer the lemmy experience. Obviously needs some polish, it’ll come. (once again guilting myself into digging into the code)
I would like it if lemmy had near the numbers of reddit (although i dont think that will happen), but the userbase is already big and diverse enough to sustain some good communities that have an (imo) better feeling to them than reddit.
I would like it if lemmy had near the numbers of reddit
I wouldn’t. People need to get away from the notion that more users = better. With more users comes trolls, bad faith actors, etc. Quality over quantity.
It depends on the goal of the platform. For spending your free time on and socializing i fully agree that smaller communities are the best. However as a forum for getting information (especially on niche subjects) more users = better more or less.
