We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is.

You all might not be aware, but I think Rudd started this server only at the beginning of June for funsies, probably only expecting a couple of hundred users.

Then, of course, came Reddit API-calypse. Now, here we are barely 4 weeks later, almost 80k users on the instance. From nothing, to a respectable chuck of the fediverse, just that fast. Pretty amazing.

Guess I will make my first comment. Hi everyone :)

This is not a good thing. Part of the problem is third-party apps like Sync and other Fediverse advocates that direct Reddit users to sign up on only one instance, lemmy.world. This is understandable to keep things simple for the Redditors but it hurts lemmy.world (cost and performance-wise) and the Fediverse as a whole (centralization) to have a lot of accounts on one instance. I hope lemmy.world can make an announcement or guide to encourage users to spread out to more instances.

Keep in mind, dear folks, simply coming ain't enough. Be sure to stay and visit often, otherwise the rich assholes win ;)

I have tried many forum-styled site over the years including the politically more questionable ones, and from what I see theres 3 hurdles a site need to pass in order to be good:

1. it needs good infrastructure, especially user interface (where 4ch, most forum, and now reddit fail)

2. it has some gatekeeping to filter out the "order consumers", but not too much that it drives user away, including having a toxic environment (where 4ch and .win fail)

3. it needs to have enough user generated content so thay theres actually reasons to use the site (whre most reddit clones fail)

from what I see lemmy has passed all the hurdles, and I have good hope the fediverse will stick around

I just really hope the engagement continues and grows.

Lemmy perfectly represents the adage "building the plane as you fly it" and it's been so much fun seeing it take shape.

I suppose this is a good place for my first post. I'm happy to be here. This has saved me from the withdrawals of losing reddit. I hope we can make this an active community.

Really interested to hear about the plans and costs to scale up and grow in a stable, reliable, and safe way. Hopefully Patreon membership grows too and allows continued performance improvements.

I think for more casual users, continued degraded performance - or worse, an instance being stopped for whatever reason and the content and accounts being lost - would probably stop the platform being a true replacement. Casual users would head back to Reddit.

I think having a public roadmap and backlog, good communication and transparency will be super important, particularly in these early stages.

Great job so far, this kind of sudden growth is not easy to manage!

As a refugee myself, it’s amazing to see the growth. In just the four days I’ve been here, there’s been sensuous growth seen.

Honestly, I also try to be more active as a user in Lemmy, and it feels way more rewarding because it feels like a more tight-knitly community here. Like it a lot!

Love the decentralized model. I’m so over corporate run sites looking to make a profit

Not too long ago I was worried that this place may get deserted after a first boost, but it is awesome to see that more and more people are coming. So glad this is happening and it already feels like a really good alternative to Reddit!

For reference point:

On July first 1 am, we had 62k people.

As of right now, we're at 75k

80k

I joined this morning and this is my first comment this afternoon. Fuck spez, this place seems much nicer.

I'm very excited to see how this all develops. Right now it's pretty rough and the constant failure to load/comments getting duplicated or disappearing hurts a lot but it does have potential. Let the Lemmy's free!

This is pretty awesome. I've tried mastodon when Twitter shit the bed a few months back and it never really launched the way I'd hoped.

Lemmy seems pretty lively. At first I was a bit disillusioned with the fact that it's not as active as reddit, but I feel the caliber of user that's come over is better than who we've all been dealing with the past 3-5 years over there. I'm happy to be here and there's palpable excitement

I mean, if Reddit blocks 3rd party apps, I ain’t staying. I’ll just come here which appears to basically be a better version of Reddit.

It's nice seeing how much Lemmy is growing. I knew there would be an influx of new users from the 30th, but it's honestly nice seeing more comments overall and posts getting upvoted.

We all be going to Reddit and letting people know about the migration to Lemmy.... And make sure to promote one of the 3rd party apps to the redditors. The best one I've tried so far is Connect for Lemmy on the Google play store.

I did my part. By which I mean I made an account and made a single comment (well, two now.)

Still hoping to find a good comparable app to Slide for Reddit. Liftoff for Lemmy has fairly similar comment layout at least.

Also please consider using other instances for your account. Lemmy.world is struggling and the costs will keep rising for Ruud.

The fact that the server is still running is impressive!

My prediction is the .world will become a default sort of federation for popular communities until the Apps join in and we then start forming smaller communities under .Apollo and .Sync.

I want to see the App developers being the leaders on here

Made the jump, hello everyone!

My addiction have new management. A lot more community driven than the last one 😁

I guess that's because "World" is a pretty bold statement and suggests an expanse that can accommodate a truckload of migrants. Add to that the open signups and my natural aversion to smaller instances (I tend to think someone with a few users may feel tempted to pull the plug at any moment), and here we are. By the way, I have had a great experience with Connect for Lemmy - if anyone is interested.

Glad to see Refugees like myself finding a new home. I'd be interested in sporting some merchandise it some of the proceeds go back into covering costs etc..

Shame about World's stability issues. Probably brought on by its popularity.

congrats from .ca!

while im here: does anybody actually know why lemmy.world grew the fastest out of all of the instances? its not the "main" instance like .ml, not a safe space like beehaw, and a normal general instance like itjust.works. im curious why out of all places, .world got the main influx

It might be a little cringe but I embrace being a lemming.

I've signed up to lemmy.world don't know what an instance is or why it might be important to sign up to something different. Want to help as much as possible. Please educate me!

Migrated here from RIF (RIP), lemmy.world being suggested on top of the how to join guide definitely played a part in choosing this instance along with all the recommendations from other users.

Definitely feel much more inclined to comment here than on Reddit as of late, all the regurgitated meme shitposts and karma farming bot comments were getting really old. If it takes donating / paying a sub to keep Lemmy human discussion focused, that's what I will do.

Congratulations from sh.itjust.works!

I'd move to a closer instance, if I new they were in it for the long run and not shut down when they get bored after a few months. What happens if the instance I'm registered to decides to shut down?

Hi new person from reddit here! Can't wait for this place to grow

Heck yeah, hello everyone fleeing reddit!

Reddit refugee here. F spez.

...and it'll only get better from now on.

If you use it YOU GOTTA GIVE. EVERYBODY GIVES!

Really hope Lemmy overtakes Reddit. I just need a working app.

Thank you for having us.

Yeah it's really amazing to see the growth. I switched to my lemmy.ca account for now as I started to really feel the server bog down. Hopefully things go well.

The activity would be so huge today if the servers could cope. I've had to give up on so many comments.

The activity would be so huge today if the servers could cope. I've had to give up on so many comments.

im really liking how lemmy works and i think its interesting to learn about the details and i like the philosophy it runs on. im glad to be a part of this community!

the more the easier it is for future people to adapt to lemmy when they decide to join as well!

Friendly reminder to donate to your home instance if possible! Every little bit helps :)

Is there any concern that world's population might overload the server? I keep reading that we need to spread the server load to other instances.

It's been great to see but I've had so many comments just not go through today... Let's see how this one goes...

I'm here to stay, I love semi-niche social media sites :)

They even brought over the nobody replies to my comments part. Crazy!

I'm glad I had a slightly earlier start and am starting to learn how to curate my experience.

Guys we need more activity on the One Piece communities. I'm one of two people who actually posts there

Still trying to figure out how get subreddit equivalents set up. Everything on my home page is the same "fuck soez" message.

I love it here! Keep being awesome, people. And to new beginnings 🎊

Glad to see people moving here from reddit. I might move to another instance if these errors persist, but it's ok for now while I familiarize with the whole fediverse thing

Yup! F Spez, once I'm done saving some of my reddit content I'll let him know just that. I did already report him for help, incase he gets suicidal thoughts. He deserves to watch it burn. 😂

Are there any good apps on iOS that I can use to view lemmy world? I’ve been using it within the browser, which is fine, but just curious.

Is lemmy slow for everyone or just me? I'm wondering if I need to switch instance

Joined an hour ago. Still unsure about how everything works. Seems pretty cool so far though.

Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help us get started?

Love to see the success Lemmy is seeing with the Reddit migration. It's a key time where a lot of people are looking for Reddit alternatives, and first impressions go a long way. I hope Lemmy continues to see growth so that it can become a true competitor to Reddit.

Amen

I love to see it. Keep bringing the content and conversation, everyone! We'll make ourselves a new decentralized home.