There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

$20 says it’s all AI bots 🥲

I totally understandable i'm actually using a timer app timer now so i can keep track of how much i'm using it and try to lower it each month.

Reddit is a tough one because your brain loves new information. It devours it. It wants it.

Just noticed that it shows how many days ago I joined. The babies are taking over this thread. This is a baby-thread now.

I gotta say, I respect what Lemmy does and hope it succeeds, and I think it's a good place for discussions and such (and I will remain), but good god if this place isn't unfunny as hell. I'm struggling real hard to find some place with actually funny content on here, which leads to me getting exceedingly riled up by politics.

Lets make this a new reddit but better!

I will shitpost harder.

I'm doing my part!

One of my largest pain points with Lemmy is that there are multiple active communities for the same topic, causing quite a few duplicate posts to show up in my feed that is difficult to filter. Hopefully there comes some kind of solution, outside of userbase, this is (what I believe) one of the larger issues compared to Reddit.

However, I still switched over to Lemmy for my primary 'Reddit'-needs.

What constitutes an active user? Is a new lurker like myself counted or is there a threshold of minimum action needed to be counted?

I am ready to give up Reddit, we need more communities to move here!

Nice. Might as well leave my first comment here. Hi!

Yesterday was the first day that Lemmy activity tipped over the threshold, and there were too many overnight posts for me to read all of them over breakfast.

Is anyone else just enjoying seeing people create actual user names again and not just using the automatically generated ones reddit has done for awhile?

I'm glad to be part of this renaissance of the forum.

LONG LIVE THE THREAD!! LETS GOOOOOOOOO

A lot of folks here are talking about Reddit being shitty but I switched because I'm in Europe and I don't want to enrich especially US Companies off of my personal data.

Reddit's auto moderation has gone haywire. You can't say anything bad about nazis now.

Probably we can thank king Trump and the magnificent 7 horseman.

If you are here and want lemmy to succeed, please consider donating. The devs used to get by mostly by nlnet foundation grants but are trying to shift to a more sustainable donation based model. You can see how they are doing on the join-lemmy website when you scroll down to the bottom, there are also links to their liberapay (preferred option) paetreon, etc.

Welcome all

This is what happened when I joined obviously

That's really good to see. But it will be far more interesting to see what the numbers are a month and longer are from now. If they don't stick, it's pretty meaningless.

This is probably active ones too, so the ones that don't comment (like me) don't count.. except this time. I would say it would be around same size as the active ones, but I have no data to prove that.

And I am glad I am one of them. Not because of an anti-US sentiment (as in: towards American citizens) but as more pro-Europe move.

Hey look! I'm a statistic! Not the one I expected.

Is this something that should be really celebrated? I mean, the reason I joined is because it's not reddit. And I feel that this place will turn into reddit 2.0 if we're not careful.

Hopefully even more people will join as Reddit gets shittier and shittier.

What does "active" mean in this context? Is giving an upvote or opening the app enough, or do I need to write a comment/post?

This is my first time here. I do not abide thought policing. Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez.

What happened around February 12?

Ready for this

Always happy to see the Fediverse getting more popular! 😃

I was fed up with reddit and looking to make a change that won't put money in spez's pocket, arrived a few days ago.

Shaddow Banned from Reddit for making some Luigi Mangione prayer candles got thousands of likes and bam old high karma account banned forever. No response from Reddit. Noticed on the shadow ban page that tons of people getting these bans everyday and no response from Reddit . Suggested we protest at Reddit headquarters in SF and now I’m banned from Shadow page ban lol. Nice to be here though

Lets just have each of us 50k post about Lemmy over on Reddit.

It was a "alternatives to American apps/sites" on Reddit that got me here

Left Reddit as soon as Boost stopped working

People getting sick and tide of Reddit. TBH I’m still salty over them killing 3rd party apps and I’m so glad they did because that drew the line for me, also fuck spez.

Been checking and commenting on Lemmy everyday since I made my account. Its my new first opened app of the day now

THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!

But seriously this is good news and I'm glad to have you all here. Lemmy is in a pretty good position right now in terms of having a critical mass of users and decent traction within popular communities. At the very least it feels self-sustaining here.

Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday

Speaking of users, whatever happened to Flyingsquid?

I'm the "9" of the 90-9-1 rule (aka: mostly comments)

hope that counts 👀

Subjectively, Lemmy's communities are much more robust and have a lot more content than they did during the Reddit API exodus. I imagine there will be more people who choose to stay this time around.

I didn't realize that was only 50 thousand users. Muddy have been only 5000 in 2023 during the API Exodus.

Woo more people to join our cult. Everyone will get their robes in the mail

I can't remember one instance of a company being bought out and then made better by investors. That's why I came here. I just don't like people like that. I hate how everything is about money.

I’ve had enough of reddit

2025 is the year of the Lemmyverse!

Greeting new Lemmings!

Please wipe your feet, we don't want anyone tracking in any spez.

What's an "active user"? Can I just up vote things I like, do I need to leave comments like this, or must I get involved in senseless flame-wars?

Greetings everyone

Reddit, when the walls fell

One of us one of us!

I created an account a while back now, but it’s been mostly inactive since then. I’m liking it a lot more here!

2025 is also the year of Piefed. :)

I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit's MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.

Regardless, this is nice to see and I recommend everyone check out !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com if they are interested in helping to promote Lemmy instances on Reddit.

Let's nooooooootttt!

Reddit is being crazy and censoring/banning people.

What’s that dip on 2/12? What happened?

I’ve enjoyed it. Doubt I’m using it to its fullest ability. Only on two instances.

What happened around the middle of February that caused that slight but sharp drop-off?

Sync for Lemmy is a good app' if anyone is looking for RIF like experience. Sync

I’m here to help the place grow. Let’s do it!

Step up Lemmy, cometh the hour cometh the platform!

Ha, I knew setting up my own server would attract more people!!! /s

But it is a great development, happy to see it 😀

What is the reddit drama this time?

New guy here. Signikg up was a bitch but glad to be here :)

Big uptick last few days. I’ve heard there were more redditors coming over after more dumb stuff occurred recently. There was the Luigi hat thing recently.

Really happy to see. I need to start posting more.

Made a similar post yesterday on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com , nice to celebrate again!

You know it’s so simple to just click a different app and go back to infinite scrolling the way I’m used to.

I’m not a fussy user, I don’t get all up in arms over changes in functionality or whatever. It’s also nice not to see orange man on the internet whenever I scroll

That can't be true. we only have 466 judging by the upvote count. xD

Just got here and started a regional community for the American Midwest. Come on down!
https://lemmy.world/c/midwest

Let's go!

The new front page of the internet is upon us

I created an account a while back and I'm back after receiving a warning from reddit for upvoting certain content. I was going through the communities looking for stuff to subscribe to and I was a bit surprised by the number of communities with a couple thousand users and the last post being half a month or more out.

I hope people's suggestions about making the instances and navigation more seamless is being taken seriously because there hasn't been much change there from what I'm seeing.

I’m one of those 50k. Glad to be here!

Lemmy is fantastic!

I wonder what happened during the small dip . Very good news though!

Glad to be here!!

Neat