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

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.

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!

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

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

Probably a significant number of bots tbh.

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

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

/u/spez brought us here.

Thanks spez!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Reddit's meltdown

They’re starting to de-mod folks.

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

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

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

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!

Everyone figuring out /u/spez is full of shit

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

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.

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.

Soon we will look back amazed at these growing little numbers. They're growing quickly but I expect it to grow by one or two more orders of magnitude over the coming months!

This is my first post, I just signed up. I was on reddit from the early days. I liked it then a lot more. This has that feel. I also like that it is open source - hopefully that will bring more developers.

I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.

I don't even use third party apps. It's just that I can't give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.

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

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

I joined a couple days ago. I decided to just sign up and jump in. Everyone else doing it, why can't I?