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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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!

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[-] vepro@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Good to see Lemmy grow, but I hope that the decentralization will work out so that the large influx of new users will spread out as evenly as possible. General purpose instances help balancing the load, and last time I checked join-lemmy.org there have been several general purpose instances, which seems promising.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I think once people start to figure out just HOW the Fediverse works, they'll start spreading out. I joined beehaw originally, then they defedereated from lemmy.world, which is where most of the communities were that I had subscribed to. That's why I joined lemmy.world...

[-] unerds@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

so far i think that process is going to be a bit of a barrier for the average user... so many logins. i understand that decentralization carries this burden, but i'm not sure it's worth it for me personally, and i think i may be slightly more inclined that the average user to jump through those hoops. we shall see.

[-] whoisearth@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

The decentralization has its warta for sure. I'm curious how it's all going to play out. As an example I'm in IT so not an idiot but I'm registered on InfoSec.pub. now I've learned there's better "home" nodes but even though the comments are federated I can't login to a node that isn't my "home" node which is weird to say the least.

[-] Undearius@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's like email in that sense. You can't log into Hotmail with your Gmail account but you can still access all the content on Hotmail through Gmail.

[-] Redtitwhore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Same here. I thought you only needed one login for all the servers but that hasn't been the case for me. I'm hoping I find a good app that makes the experience more seemless.

(I keep getting gateway errors too)

[-] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

You do only need one login, where you're going wrong is trying to actually log in to those different instances. Instead, you can subscribe and post and comment in them from your home instance ๐Ÿ™‚

[-] Redtitwhore@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. I thought you only needed one login for all the servers but that hasn't been the case for me. I'm hoping I find a good app that makes the experience more seemless.

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