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Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

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[-] Sonemonkey@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago

I've noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

[-] cerevant@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

A related contributing factor: as instances gain users, more federated content is showing up in all, so new users don’t have to jump through hoops to find it.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.

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[-] ClassyHatter@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:

r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.

Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.

[-] YMS@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Good hints, but these events likely were not very relevant.
While Lemmy gained almost 200,000 new users in the last two days, the active users increased by less than 3,000, just about the same as pretty much every two-day period recently. So pretty much all of those new users are inactive. That's not hordes of Redditors coming over and exploring Lemmy, that's hordes of bot and sleeper accounts being created.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

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[-] GraceGH@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Do you have a link to the new post by the Apollo dev?

[-] S4nvers@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Here‘s a link where someone copied the post to kbin. There‘s also a link to reddit

[-] Saintpaul@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!

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[-] axce@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

spez's continued jackassery. I made the switch about 24h ago.

[-] Grant@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

The post by the Apollo creator was the final nail for me. It really laid everything out there pretty well. Let it go be Tumblr somewhere

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[-] cura@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Could it be because r/ModCoord recommended moving to kbin, lemmy etc.?

[-] tj111@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah major mods are now actively promoting the switch to lemmy.

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[-] Protegee9850@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Probably a significant number of bots tbh.

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[-] Jakeg@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I’ve avoided Reddit since Sunday and am missing being able to see what’s going on without having to visit tech blogs/news sites/etc…

Decided might as well make the next jump and propel the death of Dig, I mean reddit

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[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Got sick of Reddit, looked for alternatives, found sub.rehab, found Lemmy was common… here I am.

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[-] KuroJ@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

/u/spez brought us here.

Thanks spez!

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[-] xyzinferno@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Keep in mind too that the expiration date for many of the mainstream third party Reddit apps is June 30

Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

[-] zikk_transport2@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reddit is already turning into shit. Like literall shit, except it's digital shit, but still shit.

Feeling horny? Visit r/horny. Oh wait, that's christian minecraft discussions!

Wanna learn something new? Visit r/InterestingAsFuck. Oh wait, that's interesting porn positions!

Wanna see what is going in gaming community? Just visit r/steam! Oh wait, it's choo choo shitwreck powered by steam engines!

No wonder why people are looking for Reddit alternative, and Lemmy might be just the right option. :)

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[-] potato_pizzareca@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.

[-] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I have signed up to so many communities on here with the hope that once Lemmy gets bigger, I can leave the ones I don't actually want to be involved in. I also posted my first-ever meme. Let's contribute to make this a reddit alternative!

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[-] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

It's the way tech disseminates into the world.

If you've been here for a month or more, you're a first adopter and the true heroes of our cause. You take up what makes no sense to -- what is untested and will likely be a waste of time.

These people then tell the early adopters, which is what you are if you've been here for a couple weeks.

Once we got on board, we told all our friends who join, and then the whole thing keeps snowballing.

Of course, Lemmy really has Reddit to thank for making us all balk enough to take a look at fediverse stuff. Mastodon really didn't do it for me when I checked on it a couple years ago, but this is awesome and totally makes sense.

Playing around with Pleroma now so I can follow users here!

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[-] Yolohansolo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

They’re starting to de-mod folks.

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[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

not that surprising really - many, MANY people are fed up with centralized link aggregation/social media/reddit in general & the fediverse is an excellent option

[-] Grant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I'm tired of capitalism and greed ruining everything I love!

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[-] Akuma@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For me, LJ Dawson, the Dev of Sync for Reddit posted that he is making a Lemmy app. I was planning on leaving Reddit at the end of June, so I signed up! I'm extremely happy to be here!

Edited: messed up posting the Dev's name. Thanks @DTFpanda@lemmy.world

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[-] TheBrainGuy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Probably due to this- https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/19/23765895/reddit-hack-phishing-leak-api-pricing-steve-huffman

[-] dan96kid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Reddit's meltdown

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[-] quazar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

it was reddit banning the mods of /r/mildlyinteresting that had me sign up with lemmy an hour ago.

They are back now, but still

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[-] NinjiGantoris@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Wanted to ditch Reddit following all the nonsense around their API changes, but still wanted Reddit-esque news aggregation + discussions from somewhere.

Googling for alternatives initially led me to Beehaw, but they don't have the sufficiently granular niche communities I wanted. Searching for communities I wanted to subscribe to led me here, and after refreshing myself on how the fediverse worked I realised I should just create a login here instead. So far, so good!

[-] n8vos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Ljdawson said he was making sync for Lemmy so I signed up

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[-] GammaScorpii@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Been signing up to reddit alts all week. Finally got to Lemmy.

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[-] markr@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I've put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.

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[-] Dream_state@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Everyone figuring out /u/spez is full of shit

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[-] Bisque@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Seems like reddit just fresher. Not clogged up with all the bullshit. Also I feel like I'm on the ground level of a reddit competitor that seems to be protected from corporate bullshit.

[-] oryx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Hopefully they're all a real people and not bots or something.

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[-] Tired8281@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I signed up and then went to bed. I'm assuming the world took that as a sign and followed me. Or perhaps I should cut down on the hard drugs, idk

[-] hungover_pilot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I've been thinking about joining for the last few weeks. The reason I did today was because the developer of my favorite app (sync) announced they would be releasing a lemmy version

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