Created on June 1 of this year, lemmy.world quickly grew to 51k users and then blew up after reddit’s API debacle on July 1, doubling to a whopping 100k in just 9 days later!
Pretty sure Lemmy is getting a ton of reddit users now that they pretty much ruined the user experience by making 3rd party app developers to pay money to use their api.
I just created an account here… I won’t be returning to reddit!
Welcome to the Fediverse. To acknowledge your arrival, please accept the Lemmy Lemon Basket award.
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Went from lurker to user today actually. It wasn’t even the apps it was just the awful attitude towards users.
I’ve only been using Lenny for a day and a half, but I’ve been having a great time. The memes are 10/10 and everything else is coming together nicely. This is already my Reddit replacement, genuinely.
LETS GO LENNY!!!
Ha, I was laughing at someone else writing Lenny earlier. Never considered that it was just auto-correct and that I should be careful not to do the same 😅
Petition to change the lemmy.world logo to Lenny
If lemmy goes in the wrong direction and everyone abandons (water)ship, Lenny would be a good pejorative. After all, who better to unwitting snap a rodent’s neck than Lenny?
Not Lenny!
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The reposting has gotten to a whole new level, and the amount of content pulled straight from tiktok and twitter has increased. Also started to see some very uncanny subreddits climbing into r/all.
I’m done loading that place all together pretty much.
Just documenting my “I was there” moment.
Exactly. In a “this is for the future” way.
This is the way.
I was here too!
I wasn’t here… wait crud
This is the place to be. I’m hoping some communities jump over. I’ve seen a few use discord that is not a good replacement at lol.
Can I count on 100K “Barbie” ticket sales from everyone here on Lemonworld then? (Only in theaters July 21st)
Maybe not from Lemmy.World but definitely with all the other Lemmy sites in the Fediverse.
Wife and I considering it and we are not movie going people.
FYI: Fediverse = One account let’s you comment/vote on other Lemmy sites
Yay
(Omg I got a reply from a movie star!!)
I am so proud of you.
LOL
BTW, aren’t you on strike too or are you still getting work in Australia?
Strike.
Well I’m loving Lemmy.world so far. Feels refreshing in here.
I wasn’t commenting much on Reddit, but in here I feel like participating.
Congrats and thanks Lemmy.world admin @[email protected]
Hello from Kbin. It’s nice that we can hang out.
waves across the tubes
Good for you lemmy.world, congrats!
BTW, lemmy.world is #1 in the node sort by total users at the-federation.info
Now the trick is to keep the instance running well with that crazy high user load.
The devs have been working their butts off. They make post with complete transparency about their growing pains. The devs of leemy.world and others get together and troubleshoot as a team, especially lemmy.ml. everything is posted on GitHub. It’s awesome to see and support. I’ve been here for about four weeks now, and it has been fun to watch it grow, and participate in the user community.
we should all unite and fk u/spez
Wasn’t lemmy.world only created in mid June?
June 1, I think. Hitting 100k users in just over a month is kind of intense.
Zuck, Spez, and Elon can suck my nuts!
Awesome :D
What the hell ? Feels like it was sitting at 30k just a couple days ago, insane growth.
Glad to be enjoying this community and the way it’s growing. Love not having ads and being free from corporate greed
And still silent on the status of Meta defederation.
I believe Ruud has stated elsewhere (on Mastodon or whatever it is called) that they won’t do anything preemptively, but they’re keeping a close eye on what Meta does.
Okay. Thanks for the update 👍