The Reddit exodus has begun! My only regret is not learning about lemmy and the fediverse before things blew up over there.
As one of the emigredditors, hell yeah! Personally though, I'm still testing the waters and making myself more comfortable here; it's eerily quiet here as compared to reddit, but I hope it's just a matter of time :)
Yes there's definitely a need for more users to really make things take off, but I believe that's a matter of time, assuming reddit doesn't take a fairly large change of course in the near future. Got to say, it feels a lot more friendly than reddit has lately.
a few years ago it was literally a handful of ppl posting 90% of links and talking to each other, witnessing firsthand how complicated it is to get over that initial user retention bump, but i’m convinced we’re over it now :)
I come back after a couple of weeks and we've quadrupled at least. It comes in waves, and now I'm thinking it may not stop (until some reddit staff make their own BlueSky equivalent, of course)
i tried lemmy a few months ago but i didn't find enough content. I'm happy to see popularity is going up, and the new android app is a real game changer
it's absolutely awesome here! :-D
I feel like being part of the internet of my youth again.
Random bullshit posts, random memes, it's like when Reddit started! Content made by people, not companies pushing whatever agenda they have
Eh, I'm fine with neutral and minimal moderation of sorts. Anyone that was around to see Voat.co and Ruqqus.com saw it disintegrate pretty quickly, due to the lawlessness and lack of content moderation.
All we need is for Christian the Apollo app developer to port over his app to lemmy
Reddit Boost developer for me. Jerboa app is terrible lol.
Any reason not to just improve Jerboa? I don't see anything fundamentally bad with it, and usually it's not great to have a large number of apps for a (currently) narrow use.
Excuse my ignorance, but can Lemmy and the others handle a Reddit exodus?
Beehaw is already having troubles, guess instances have to ramp up their capacity in their near future
Yeah Beehaw seems to have been removed from the 'Join a Server' page. I tried maybe 15 times to join Lemmy.ml as well. Honestly hoping these are just small bumps in the road, so it's easier for new users to join!
I'm another reddit refugee and came just yesterday. I'm worried about happening the same that happened with koo when a lot of people migrated from twitter. They had to spend a lot into new resources, and expected a huge growth, but it turned out to be more of a temporary spike than anything. The majority of people already went back to twitter.
But at least for me, I'm here to stay.
Yeah, I'm done with Reddit. Been using it since near when it started, and I've gotten to watch it slowly rot... I'm either here to stay, or I'm just done with it all. Either way, I'm not going back to Reddit.
Lemmy and the fediverse are such unique and cool concepts. I hope to see Lemmy grow even more in the future!
Yep, fediverse observer reports monthly active users count has doubled in four days, no real change in revenue (money donated) it seems which is a shame. The conversion rate needs to improve IMO and it seems that the option to donate is not attracting the attention it deserves. I think lemmy needs more improvements so it will be able to retain a bigger chunk of the users that is exploring the platform, look at what happened to mastodon and the fediverse after the migration after elon musk buyout , According to the statistics almost half the users are gone.
no real change in revenue (money donated) it seems which is a shame.
I mean, I'm only here since yesterday? Of course I will wait a month and see how things turn out before I invest money. And the problem with Mastodon was that the official app in the appstore was a absolute poorly designed lackluster that didn't even support lists. Most people don't look for third party apps.
Lemmy seems fine so far as alternative. You get enough recognition and responses, compared to a newly created Mastodon account.
I hope Lemmy does well whether reddit implodes or not. Great concept!
And this is only the second day since the API changes were announced. I expect there will be lots of people coming over in the month of June, and probably another big influx on July first when Reddit apps shut down for real
It's kind of awesome :) A question to others here. I mostly see stuff from beehaw and lemmy.ml on All. Are these the most active servers?
It's not terribly active, but my instance midwest.social has people on it. There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Yes, by quite a margin as well, I believe. It's unfortunate, and the only solution is to make diverse instances and advertise them well :) The fediverse is better if the load is more evenly distributed across instances instead of having most users sit on a couple of instances.
For what it's worth, having a few "bigger" instances means less confusion for users who don't completely understand federation yet but still want to make the switch. I wouldn't call it a bad thing, they can always turn to another smaller instance later on.
This site's like a breath of fresh air, small communities and the excitement of not quite know what you're doing lol, no muscle memory open close and open again
Messaging from the Jerboa app I just downloaded from the play store.
A few nights ago I discovered Lemmy as I needed to find a Reddit alternative fast knowing I will longer be able to use Reddit is Fun.
I've been a Redditor for almost 12 years now, I remember when it was a wild community where there was freedom of speech, few bots, it was the best source of memes next to cheezeburger, which was how I discovered Reddit.
I used it nearly everyday, and watched it's decline, I remember when Elena Pao or whatever the fuck her name bought into the company, since then it's become snipped more and more to the point I don't recognize it anymore.
It transformed into some sort of money hungry beast, that is destroying its self from the inside out, trying to get people to use their shitty ad riddled app with a shitty interface.
I am so happy I found you guys, I really want to see Reddit's blackouts go on indefinitely, infact I just wanna watch it burn. It's dead to me, the owners suck, it's just as bad as Facebook and the other main social media platforms now.
Any person I know who uses Reddit, I will point them here.
Hello world! My first ~~Kenny~~ Lemmy comment! I have no idea what I'm doing :D all I know is I'm mad at hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! In regards to Reddit anyway hehe. I will kinda miss Reddit, but if Lemmy gets a good following I imagine it should be better than Reddit ever was 😎
Well, it got me to try installing an instance of my own. We’ll see if I manage to keep it running 😂
Personally I'm excited for my Lord of the meme (lotr memes)s server to eventually get people of the same interest.
I wish clicking that link in jerboa would go to that community in the app instead of opening a browser window.
This has happened in R's past: see Voat (I wont link it here). I hope we can keep this an open and engaging community without all that hatred.
Mm, I wanted Voat to work out when it first cropped up in Reddit comments, but the exodus of Donaldites meant abandoning that account.
Let's hope a moderated and federated version means any communities of that persuasion can hive themselves off.
It is cool to see this platform getting some attention as reddit's biggest mistake draws nigh.
Thanks for the welcome! I'm still a bit confused by how this all works, but not gonna lie I think it's pretty cool and I wish I knew about this earlier.
Cheers! Lemmy has been awesome so far! I just need Mlem to be developed more, or have some other iOS developer come in.
On Desktop, it seems Lemmy is at its best right now.
Yes, it's great. I'm enjoying this a lot. Welcome, everybody!
Reddit won't work on my phone anymore so I had to find somewhere new, and most other places are alt right cesspits
Yeah, I hope the momentum keeps going!
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