Lemmy reached a user base of 150,000

😄👋🥂🌱

I really hope the momentum holds and the numbers will continue to grow!

I'm really excited to be here, Lemmy feels like reddit in the golden years (long gone).

Lemmy gives me that new frontier feeling. Win 98SE times was the last time i felt it.

Neat, anyone else having problems upvoting anything? I try but it just goes right back down.

Hurray 🎉👏🎊🎈🙌🍾🥂🪅🥳🍻

I'm doing my part!

Lemmy has a lot of obstacles that will prevent it from truly going mainstream:

1. The community browser is complete dog shit for discovering content on different instances, and trying to view another instance's content from your own community is just needlessly complex. Discoverability is still a lot better than Mastodon though, where you'd look at all post and see nothing but hentai reposting bots regurgitating stuff that isn't even allowed on NSFWLemmy...

2. Due to the nature of federation, you also run the risk of committing to an instance only for them to defederate entirely, or disassociate from content you want to see but they don't agree with. Beehaw is a very good example of this.

3. As there's no option (yet) to migrate to a different instance, and Lemmy is a FOSS project that cannot be monetized in the same way as a traditional social media site, what happens when instances start shutting down due to being unable to keep up with server hosting costs?

4. I cannot speak for the iOS option available, but Jerboa is barebones. For example, you can't even tap on a post/comment reply in your inbox to go to that comment's permalink and view the context. This is incredibly basic functionality for any social news aggregator. Even with the fediverse in general surpassing 150,000 users, I don't see Lemmy getting the same level of third-party app support as Reddit had.

Lemmy is far less mature than reddit but at least its still improving and growing

Reddit killing 3rd party apps can be a blessing in disguise.

I'm sure there's no way to tell, but I wonder how many are duplicate accounts to span different instances.

"Thanks, reddit"

• Obama

I just joined, but I'm excited to watch Lemmy grow!

I would like it if lemmy had near the numbers of reddit (although i dont think that will happen), but the userbase is already big and diverse enough to sustain some good communities that have an (imo) better feeling to them than reddit.

PCGaming said this is the place to be, so I'm here. But why do I need to go to list > Subscribed to see the content I followed? Why isn't the stuff I want to see the default home page? I shouldn't have to go to settings and change the default to Subscriptions.

For perspective:

r/GothStyle has 159k subscribers, r/tarot has 306k, r/cycling has 348k, r/rpg and r/political humor have 1.5m each, r/ExplainLikeImFive has 22.3m, and r/AskReddit has 41.4m.

Make of that what you will. I'm just giving numbers.

Vertical graph lol

Anxiously awaiting the next version release!

I, for one, count for at least 5 of these across separate instances. lol

Yup finally seeing a lot of good conversations now. Which was really always the best part of Reddit.

The fire is rising

Cheers Lemmies

We have to be vigilant though. Can't let what happened to Voat happen again.

This pleases me.

Woot! I’m excited for Lemmy’s future

i've read kbin might get merged with lemmy (or vice versa, whatever) , but cannot find the post talking about it anymore

anyone to confirm whether it's true (perhaps was I just dreaming , after all)

Does that include kbin.social users?

Good! I'm loving the vibe here.

Reddit is blocked in my country so I have to open reddit using dns, because lemmy is already there, this is an opportunity to find a community forum for a replacement for reddit in my country.

Wow so glad it's working !

Every time I see this chart I wonder what the huge sudden drop is earlier. Does anyone know?

Yup finally seeing a lot of good conversations now. Which was really always the best part of Reddit.

Great! Keep it on!

Gee I wonder why... ;)

Dumb question but have some people double dipped? I started on Lemmy.one and then created an instance on lemmy.world after realizing I couldn’t downvote.

In any case I’m enjoying this more than Reddit!

Fuck yes!! We will be legion, expect us u/spez lmao. Kiddings apart, great info!!!

Happy to be here!

GG Lemmy, keep going!!

The website now says that Lemmy is over 200,000 people, wow! This growth is amazing, I just hope the people joining are a bit more concrete though, and don't treat this place as a fad.

I honestly wish I knew about this sooner. I like the idea of something being CEO-free

You think it's big now, just wait until July. Reddit's api changes are going to force people off of the site in droves. Right now it's a lot of noise and some movement, but a lot of the regular user base hasn't actually felt any effects yet. Once the changes make the site unusable for a lot of people there will be a lot more.

Nice!

Dumb question but have some people double dipped? I started on Lemmy.one and then created an instance on lemmy.world after realizing I couldn’t downvote.

In any case I’m enjoying this more than Reddit!

Wooohoooooo!!! No one in this thread has an account older than 2 weeks.

Yes!!

Been trying to make an account here for like a week. Kept hanging, but it finally went through this time!

Great news! Fuck reddit and fuck spez.

Lemmy know when it's 1mln

This is our moment…