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

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.

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

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.

2025 is the year of the Lemmyverse!

Greeting new Lemmings!

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

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.

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.

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

2025 is also the year of Piefed. :)

Left Reddit as soon as Boost stopped working

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.

Speaking of users, whatever happened to Flyingsquid?

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

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

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.

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

I’ve had enough of reddit

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?

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

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

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.

I will shitpost harder.

I'm doing my part!

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.

Always happy to see the Fediverse getting more popular! 😃

If you are here and want lemmy to succeed, please consider donating. The devs used to get by mostly on 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.

I just really wish there was more active communities for things I like.

I made the Path of Exile community which is currently empty.

There's no Burning Man community yet for SOME UNKNOWN REASON

All the EDM communities are dead including the one I made.

Send Help!

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.

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.

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

Hi I’m new! Finally created an account

I’ve been trying all the open social options and Lemmy is by far the most entertaining and active.

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

Reddit, when the walls fell

Lets make this a new reddit but better!

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

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

I just deleted my 12yo account over the censorship. Reddit has become a draconian shit hole and I no longer want to be a part of it. I'm happy to be here.

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

What is the reddit drama this time?

Greetings everyone

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

What happened around February 12?

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

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

I'm one of the new users. Hi. Reddit suspended my account after I posted my indie game. No reply to my appeals for 3+ months. Gonna give Lemmy a try now

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?

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

Reddit is being crazy and censoring/banning people.

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

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

Just randomly found this searching something unrelated, and suddenly I have an account. I've been a reddit user since it took over from digg. Which sort of took over from things like /.

Well now I feel old. Thanks 😮‍💨

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

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?

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.

Just joined in too!

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

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

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

LONG LIVE THE THREAD!! LETS GOOOOOOOOO

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.

Happy to be here! I'm looking forward to my new home in Lemmy!

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

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.

I'm more of a lurker, but just recently joined also

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.

This is what happened when I joined obviously

Neat

Glad to be here!!

Step up Lemmy, cometh the hour cometh the platform!

Cool the user count is going up, just hope it's not going to be all bots and trolls 😆

Lemmy is fantastic!

woot woot happy to be here

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.

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

Welcome all

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.

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

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

One of us one of us!

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

The new front page of the internet is upon us

Let's go!

I just hope this place doesn't become another reddit, it's already becoming one because of all you redditors moving here with your redditry.

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

Hopefully theres more growth in the next days and weeks. I'm absolutely hooked to migrate from reddit to lemmy, it just feels a little lonely here for now. When the time comes, my reddit is gone..

I'm locking this because too many people are shouting at each other here because of moderation practices.

This is not a complaints forum. See pinned post.

$20 says it’s all AI bots 🥲

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

Let's nooooooootttt!

Ready for this

This graph doesn't make sense to me. The drops on the two graphs shouldn't line up, right? Make me sus

Lemmy is the only federated service I actually enjoy using. Just missing being able to block an entire @something instead of having to block every single community of it

and no I do not want to "choose another host that does block it", it should be a user choice.