• Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I think it shows that the great migration from Reddit is actually happening. After the 1st of July, we can expect to see Lemmy growing even more since the changes on Reddit are gonna be in full effect.

    • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Agreed. I imagine the devs and admins here are looking at it as a bit of a deadline of sorts. It’s going to be a big bump in traffic, best to have as much as you can in place.

      If you can have useable app out by then, you’ll get a big sudden surge in interest. It’s just a really nice opportunity for an aspiring dev.

    • PorkTaco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      This is great and exciting news, but we do need to keep things in perspective. Jumping to almost 48,000 daily active users is great, but Reddit has about 55 million. That’s essentially a rounding error as far as Reddit is concerned.

      • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        People keep wishing death upon Reddit. I understand the emotion, but I wish Reddit a long life. Let it be the grease trap for doomscrollers, reposters, and political and corporate infiltration. I don’t want millions of people to join Lemmy. I want the mythical 1% active content creators to jump ship.

      • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’m curious what the make up of people migrating are. It could be the early adopters that helped Reddit build out the platform ahead of Digg collapsing. It could also be people who were looking for an excuse to leave because they didn’t really like Reddit for one reason or another. I think I fall more in the fed up with Reddit and looking for anyone/anywhere doing it better.

    • theGimpboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      I’m really trying, the main thing I miss is the amount of content and the general navigability of reddit. Finding new subs was so easy and lemmy feels harder to just browse imo. I’ve moved to the lemmy RSS and deleted my reddit bookmarks to help keep me from going there out of weakness though.

      We’ll see to what degree the migration stays/works. I would be very happy to see some competition in this space.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    It is very clear that new content per day has been steadily increasing the past 14 days.

    Lemmy is no longer just promising, it is already good. With signs of getting even better.

    With more active users, more niche communities should soon be able to do fine too.

    • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I already didn’t read past the first few hundred comments on reddit- Lemmy already feels almost as good to use, way more than mastodon did coming from Twitter.

      • rezz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Mastodon is simply not as good. Lemmy achieves its objectives very cleanly and seems to leverage ActivityPub the best in the fediverse by far.

  • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    There will probably be another bump on July 1st, and probably more to come as Reddit makes more horrible decisions going forward.

    100% honestly, I’m not married to the whole concept of the Fediverse - I think it’s interesting and solves some problems plaguing modern social media, but has other issues of its own - but Lemmy has, overall, put out a good showing in the various instances’ content so far. So here I am with an account and actively posting. Looking forward to continued growth!

  • slowbyrne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Adding a comment to ensure I’m being flagged as active. Can’t remember if I’ve posted or commented since joining.

  • BrockSampson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Just been lurking until now but I guess we can +1 that active user count. Just waiting for sync to add a lemmy app and then it’s full steam ahead.

  • Nostromo Survivor @lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Found my way here as part of the Grand Reddit Migration. Applying for refugee status please. (1st day on Lemmy, looks good gotta say)

  • iaamp@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    This feels great. The posts right now seem a lot more genuine compared to reddit lately. Keep it up!

  • davidzilla12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    To be honest, i am using reddit via Apollo and lemmy but as soon as that shuts down im transitioning to lemmy full time.

    • Atreju@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’m on some cracked official Reddit app that has the ads fully removed. I am not sure if it will still work afterwards but switching to Lemmy anyway.

  • sazey@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’m only one person but I never returned to Reddit after the blackout. They could do a complete u-turn and even make sp*z that little fucker walk the plank but I would still be done with that place.

    I am really excited to see the community we build from here on out.

    • vtez44@kbin.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      I doubt many people will move. Most people will just start using the official app or move to another website. Lemmy doesn’t have much content (yet), and that’s yet worse than not having a good app. They will just quick look and go back, if even.

      • Sneckster@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        At this point content is definitely needed more than users. I really to stick with lemmy but the content just isn’t here… Like you said (yet)

        Those Reddit echo bots are really starting to annoy me now too.

        I’m still hopeful though, I don’t want to go back to Reddit

        • linearchaos@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          I rarely posted content on reddit, but I engaged a lot.

          I realized that once I got here, I needed to post content if I wanted to encourage others to do the same.

          We need both content and engagement. Engagement drives the content, it’s a feedback loop.