Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.

Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it’s great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.

So, welcome reddit expats!

  • syl@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Friendly reminder that lemmy is still being actively developed. There will be many performance improvements in the future, as well as UI and whatnot. Stick around, create content and engage with your communities.

  • mycoxadril@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So what’s happening over at Reddit? I assume all is still well over there. But after ten plus years, I actually haven’t been over there since Apollo died because I’ve just been busy and scrolling here before bed instead of the old Reddit browser.

    I assume it’s business as usual and it didn’t implode, but honestly it’s been like three days since I’ve been there and that’s probably one of my longer streaks without casually browsing at some point in the day.

      • mycoxadril@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I use wefwef and for me the scrolling is similar to Apollo and scratches the itch. I am struggling, though, with subscribing to communities and curating my feed. But also remembering my Reddit feed took years to curate so trying to be patient. I just find more hoops to jump through here to get to the content I want to view (discounting the bugginess of things because I understand it’s new and they’re sorting it out still).

        Bummer there wasn’t a bigger visible hit to Reddit for their shenanigans, but I am glad that more content creators have migrated and more interesting things are also appearing in the feed I have been working on here. It is very green and clunky, but also feels fresh!

        • cyberpunk007@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Well I tried lemmy a number of years ago and it was a ghost town. I hardly found anything I wanted to read and Reddit had it all. Now I’m back and I’ve noticed a lot more content. Others might notice too when they come to check it out. From this, I suspect we will see growth.

        • veerappan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          This feels like Reddit from 2010. Not the interface, but like the feel of discovering a new link aggregator.

    • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Can’t recommend spinning up a second account on a smaller instance enough. It’s made the experience so much faster than it was using my account on .world

      • BratPAQ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Which lemmy would you recommend? I chose world because I thought it’s the international version since there’s no lemmy specific for my country.

      • Peregrinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I wish more of the apps let you enter a custom server URL which would encourage this aspect of the fediverse. I currently use connect for lemmy, its great but only has 3 static server options.