Created on June 1 of this year, lemmy.world quickly grew to 51k users and then blew up after reddit’s API debacle on July 1, doubling to a whopping 100k in just 9 days later!
I’ve checked out the Reddit popular tab a few times recently. The quality has declined immensely.
The reposting has gotten to a whole new level, and the amount of content pulled straight from tiktok and twitter has increased. Also started to see some very uncanny subreddits climbing into r/all.
I’m done loading that place all together pretty much.
Would you like to know more?
Pretty sure Lemmy is getting a ton of reddit users now that they pretty much ruined the user experience by making 3rd party app developers to pay money to use their api.
I just created an account here… I won’t be returning to reddit!
Welcome to the Fediverse. To acknowledge your arrival, please accept the Lemmy Lemon Basket award.
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I’ve only been using Lenny for a day and a half, but I’ve been having a great time. The memes are 10/10 and everything else is coming together nicely. This is already my Reddit replacement, genuinely.
LETS GO LENNY!!!
Ha, I was laughing at someone else writing Lenny earlier. Never considered that it was just auto-correct and that I should be careful not to do the same 😅
Not Lenny!
What the hell ? Feels like it was sitting at 30k just a couple days ago, insane growth.
Niceeee, lets go to 1mil. Although not sure how some community members will react to the threads issue. I saw many people did not like the fact you have not yet decided to defederate
Just documenting my “I was there” moment.
I was here too!
I wasn’t here… wait crud
Well I’m loving Lemmy.world so far. Feels refreshing in here.
I wasn’t commenting much on Reddit, but in here I feel like participating.
Congrats and thanks Lemmy.world admin @ruud@lemmy.world
Hello from Kbin. It’s nice that we can hang out.
waves across the tubes
I like Kbin better, but I am happy and proud to contribute to this rapidly expanding family of communities that repudiates control by megacorps and Big Tech.
The great thing is that there’s no competition between lemmy and kbin. We can use whichever we prefer and still have access to all the same communities.
Can you explain what the difference is other than they are separated instances?
Lemmy and Kbin are actually completely different apps, like Lemmy and Mastadon, but they can federate with each other through the Activity Pub protocol, and they both happen to be aiming to be Reddit replacements. (Kbin is also aiming to have some Twitter-like functionality as well.) I like the way Kbin sorts its posts better, but I like Lemmy’s terminology more. I don’t mind either of their UI.
It’s different software displaying the content. Like if you used either Outlook, Gmail, or Thunderbird to show email. You can go to kbin.social and compare it to what you’ve got. There’s also a bunch of scripts posted in kbinStyles to further customize the looks (that might be wrapped into later versions of kbin perhaps).
Wasn’t lemmy.world only created in mid June?
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It’s amazing how well it handles the load now compared to just a few weeks before
Not only is Rudd doing and amazing job as admin of the instance, they are also really transparent ab ob it the challenges in their frequent updates!
Good for you lemmy.world, congrats!
BTW, lemmy.world is #1 in the node sort by total users at the-federation.info
Now the trick is to keep the instance running well with that crazy high user load.
The devs have been working their butts off. They make post with complete transparency about their growing pains. The devs of leemy.world and others get together and troubleshoot as a team, especially lemmy.ml. everything is posted on GitHub. It’s awesome to see and support. I’ve been here for about four weeks now, and it has been fun to watch it grow, and participate in the user community.
Glad to be enjoying this community and the way it’s growing. Love not having ads and being free from corporate greed
I was waiting for a MicroWave thread about this 😁
Congratulations everyone for this milestone! 🥳
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Or you might be 1% of 1%. I think it is great. At least until I arbitarily decide it is not. ;)
I’m trying to keep up with the fediverse jargon, but what the heck is a MicroWave thread?
Just done by Microwave, an enthusiastic poster
Oh geez. Got it. Thank you!
No worries, have a good day!
This is awesome!!! Glad to be here before the first 100k and before the change to Voyager from WefWef.
