Lemmy is blowing up

As one of the new users, I'm broadly in favour

I honestly can't say about the influx. Since I'm part of it.

But man....

This does feel like home.

I was already loving Mastodon.

Honestly, the real question is:

What took us soo long....

I was lurking on Lemmy for a long time now read only mode, not signed up, but never had the urge to actually making an account.

I try not to have so many feeds where I'm active at once, to try and better manage the time I spend on this feeds.

Twitter and Reddit were the ones I engaged the most

Twitter became Mastodon and Reddit became Lemmy on that matter, so that I can focus on being active and helpful whenever possible.

So, what took me so long...?

Definitely something I will be asking myself for a while, since so far the experience here have something that reddit just don't. The quality over quantity aspect.

Finally...

Thanks for having me here, I hope I can contribute the best I can to maintain Lemmy awesome as it is. I don't post or reply like a madman, but I like to participate on constructive discussion every now and then.

I went from Digg to Reddit and now I'm looking for a new home. I'm really liking what I'm seeing here!

I just joined Lemmy because someone on reddit mentioned in it a comment on a thread regarding the blackout. It's kind of cool getting into a community while it's still relatively small. I'm excited to see how things grow.

I’m a reddit refugee, Apollo was my most loved and most used app for years. I was really disappointed about this situation, but after checking out Lemmy, I’m starting to feel really excited about this. I like what I see so far and I think there is a lot of potential, and it is kind of fun to be here now while communities are still smaller. Onwards an upwards! I’m also checking out the beta for the iOS app Mlem, more work to be done but also good potential here. I’ve also been doing iOS dev work for about a decade so maybe I’ll see if I can help contribute to that project in some way.

It makes me hopeful for the future. Enthusiasts priming the pump for people embracing a more sustainable and less exploitative business model to organize the Internet. Instead of putting all the information on a big centralized locked down platform we share the load and costs between instances.

I love what is happening now, it is pretty much the biggest display of resistance against big tech I've ever seen in my life by a long shot. I've seen most of the internet gradually decay to a shadow of its former self so this is a return to form and a switch to a better model in the long run.

People are finally adopting the Fediverse and if the adoption rates keep up we might start going mainstream with all the advantages and disadvantages, but it will be alright since Lemmy is both federated and FLOSS. Lemmy is a Rust-based, AGPLv3 platform and that means it will be protected against corruption in the foreseable future, I hope.

EDIT: Over 30% of Reddit already went dark!

Tried Lemmy a couple months ago and tbh it felt dead, love this new influx just hope new communities keep popping up

Hope people have patience and stick with it. I have no interest in going back to reddit.

I'm a new user but I'd love to see this place explode in popularity!

I'm not one of the new users but I'm happy because the Lemmyverse feels much more alive now compared to a year ago. ☺️

I am also part of the influx, but I'm worried that this is going to be a short lived thing and people are going to go back to reddit.

A little bit worried. I am a recent migrator myself so this may a bit hypocritical, but I feel a lot of people will want to "redditize" here, just like how people tried with mastodon a couple months ago or (in a larger level), how people want Linux to become "another Windows".

These are not replicas, Lemmy doesn't work like Reddit, neither does it try to be, and that is by design, not a flaw. Things work differently, over and under the rug, and I think users should be entitled to doing some small effort to readjusting and have an open mind.

I'm all for UI/UX improvements, like most community projects, the front design part is more of an afterthought, and in that matter Lemmy has a lot to improve, but always keeping in mind what it is aiming to be.

For example, I am thinking in working on some simple browser extension to rearrange the UI in a way similar to Reddit's (nothing fancy, the upvote/downvote and collapse buttons locations, simple things). Maybe even some redirecting magic so if you open a link to another instance's community, it instead opens it in your current one, so you can still interact without having to go to your instance and search this one.

If anything, as a FOSS and federated content advocate, I wish this project nothing but the best so that one day we can escape the clutches of greedy companies.

I would love for the federated model to become a gold standard for how successful platforms ought to be run.

As a new person… no commit. Other than I feel obligated to not lurk after reading the plea to not lurk from other posr.

As (another) reddit refugee, in order to compete with reddit, Lemmy needs to invest in its mobile apps, and make other servers easier to access.

the reddit blackout is for like two days i expect that 90% of them will stick to the two days and business as usual afterwards. their bottom line is to continue running mods of their communities, even if they acknowledge that was is going on with reddit is bad. they shouldnt have announced a scheduled, limited blackout.

i expect some fringe communities to come here and stay but it will always be business as usual on reddit

therefore Lemmy needs to have a reason for people to stick around, communities offering something that isnt otherwise available, even just a refreshing change of community culture

I've been hoping for a shift to decentralized social platforms for ages, so I really hope that's the direction things are heading.

I am excited by the prospect of new communities and not excited fo reddit groupthink

I like it, but I am part of the massive influx of users so I am admittedly biased.

What's with that blip of increased activity at around July 2022?

When were you when when Reddit die

I was sat at home play Minecraft when Chris ring

'API is did'

'no'

And you?

God, site is so SLOW. They need to bring new servers, maybe charge extra for each api call? IDK

I am one of those influx.

I'm realllllly just hoping we don't choke the "main" instances completely to death before the lemmy backend can have some developer hours dumped into it to support better per-instance horizontal scaling.

I think honestly Lemmy just needs more mobile clients. Jerboa is ok, but third party clients are needed here like they are/were with reddit

I think the Redditors joining Lemmy will certainly change the culture, both for the better and for the worse. Comments got pretty toxic on Reddit while I feel like the toxic comments on Lemmy were rare.

BUT, that could be a sample size thing. I'm curious to see if the ratio of toxic comments per active user would have been the same.

As part of that massive influx, I'm excited!

I've known about Lemmy and Tild.es for some time, but both just seemed so immature. I figured I'd give Lemmy a solid chance to show support for the blackout and because I'm likely to quit Reddit entirely if they don't reverse course (I may quit regardless), and I'm happy to say that this doesn't feel like a downgrade much.

There are plenty of communities for what I'm looking for, so I'm not giving up a lot switching to Lemmy. I'm going to give it a solid chance over the next week or two and do my best to contribute, and if I'm liking it still after that point, I may be able to contribute dev resources (maybe I'll help out with a mobile app or something).

Anyway, I'm excited to be part of this community!

Pretty charts are from here https://the-federation.info/platform/73

As a newbie, I hope the software can catch up to the needs quickly.

What caused that spike around October 2022?

I'm happy about it, of course I might be a bit biased as I only came over yesterday.

This place is super nice and chill

I'm really digging Beehaw their lqbtq+ space is super welcoming

Given the timeouts and load issues I've had on lemmy.ml today... Mildly concerned.

I'm part of the problem though, and really hopeful it goes well! Seems like the solution to the Giant Network problem we see at Reddit, Twitter, FB, etc

I’m super excited for the potential this has. Happy to be here and hoping to help build a great online community with you all!

Whilst I’m somewhat sad to be here (Reddit has eaten up a significant portion of my time over the past 10+ years), I’m happy to be learning new things and exploring a new way of doing things.

I just hope that it will be more distributed than Matrix and not everyone registers on lemmy.ml (matrix.org in case of matrix) so the decentralization works for real here instead of 90% (exaggerating, don't know the numbers) of the user base sitting on one instance :)

Guys, what are you on about.

It's very clear that Lemmy is dead on arrival.

Redditors told me so.

Don't you see it?

/s

Every time I hear ding, I start laughing. 😁

I hope that lemmy makes it but I don't think that it will be easy because:

registering is far from straight forward. Before figuring out how to do it and which is the name of the app you need, lots of users will give up
I don't think that lemmy can scale well

Je trouve ça incroyable, je me suis inscrit ya à peine une semaine et les postes avaient genre 50-100 upvote max et la ça touche les 800. Puis c'est sympa de voir d'avantage de contenu.

it's cool

Lemmy go brrrrr

Just out of curiosity, where can I find those stats?

It's cool The reason why I even joined lemmy is that the administration here allow magnet links

Man, I been waiting for this for years. I thought with the way Mastodon grew it'd eventually grow into a wider growth among the fediverse but it seems to happen in fits and starts. Glad to see people are federating too and not all dumping into just the mainline instance.

Next I'd like to see major names move off YouTube and Twitch onto decentralized platforms but that's gonna take much more to get there, unfortunately.

A nice website for looking for servers, platforms, and user numbers over time is: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Also handy for getting a picture of how many lemmy servers there are and how big they are.

Honestly this platform is welcoming & people are dignified through conversations. Also informative.

I'm not new to Lemmy, I've hung around here on and off a couple times since the start of the year. My biggest complaint about it for a long time was that many of the subs I was interested in were just dead or didnt exist on lemmy. With the new influx of users, I imagine that's going to change, even if it does take a couple more years.

The future of Lemmy is looking very promising :)

I think we really need to address the scaling issue, one option could be to use clichhouse instead of postgres

Ya love to see it.

I'm happy for users to join the federated alternative!

Hell yeah brother

You know, it just occured to me yesterday that there might be a federated version of reddit. Looked it up and I was pleasantly surprised to see it's actually picking up a lot of users. Now if we could see a mobile app as polished as rif is fun, I'll be extremely happy. Move over reddit, let's go lemmy!

Just wondering though, how scalable is lemmy? What kind of hardware/connection would you need to host your own instance?

Exciting times ahead :)

Joined Lemmy because of permanent suspension from the Snoosite for harassment, which I clearly didn't commit at that time.

As a new user, I’m happy the site let me in. I like it here.

This is only the beginning and I’m glad to be a part of this journey this early one. Things should only get better from here (hopefully)

Happy to be here. :)

Hi everyone, I'm new to Lemmy! I had difficulties signing up yesterday but finally got it working tonight. I want to support 3rd party reddit app developers and reddit mods. I won't be revisiting reddit during the blackout. So far I'm really liking Lemmy so it's a strong possibility that Lemmy may replace Reddit for me :)