Lemmy.world has grown by about 66.6% since reddit's API shutdown

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.

That's impressive! It also definitely explains why lemmy.world has been slow to respond in my Lemmy app.

I was using Bacon Reader for Android for the last 10 years. For me it was the only way of using Reddit. I'm now checking Lemmy. I hope we can build a vibrant community here. I'm not coming back to Reddit.

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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.

I feel it, can barely reply from all the errors being thrown.

I am one of those users.

Don't even feel the need to go back to reddit. This platform is going to take off.

Truly have no idea if this or other similar projects will succeed long-term, but I do think that any alternative puts much needed pressure on social media companies to stop sucking ass.

Here’s to hoping it keeps growing. Gonna need content other than beans though.

I fuckin love this place

Nice growth, looks to be slowing down a little - I wonder how much is related to the poor performance last few days

With care and love we can build a new and better reddit

I actually don't on't mind the smaller user base on Lemmy at all.

First work day since shutdown, I survived without Reddit, I'm sure I can continue doing so. Lemmy has plenty of potential yet already "good enough" to take Reddit's place.

Hail Satan.

That’s great but 66.6%? Time to conspire!

Seems like they aren’t handling the load well.

It is important to distribute newly joining users evenly among different servers to enhance server performance and maintain decentralization

Any lemmy.world user who feels comfortable using the lemmy explorer to subscribe to communities via URL should heavily consider moving to a smaller instance and subscribing to everything they want. It'll be a much snappier experience, and will very slightly reduce lag for everyone else.

You can find instances by server location here (just change the software to Lemmy at the top), by user count here, or just look at the official instance list.

Congrats Lemmy.world!

I originally was using an account at .world but it started to get really slow under the stress of all the new users.

So I've since switched (to lemmy.ca) and it's been really nice. However, when I look at this thread from my .world account I can see a lot more comments. I know there are issues with syncing between instances and so I'd prefer to use .world if/when it is more stable. This way I can avoid the syncing issues mostly.

In any case I'm happy for Lemmy. I have multiple accounts and will use them whenever necessary. I wish there was something that could sync community lists between accounts. It was a bit of a chore to sync my community subscriptions for my accounts.

Cool now join a server that’s not crowded. Hit “all.”Enjoy Lemmy with all the same content with zero lag.

Indeed. It makes sense it was laggy during the upscaling, but it's stabilized now and it's great to see how well Lemmy has grown. The other thing I've notes is development is currently proceeding at a frenzied pace, it feels like every few days a new feature is added, either in the main service or in the multitude of apps being developed.

That's great news! Lemmy is a great, if but a little buggy, replacement for Reddit. I'm sure the bugs will be ironed out in due time. I'm enjoying the federated community. The more the merrier!

What happens if lemmy.world or any other instance goes down without notice? Then there'd be a void of communities for a while right, or do other instances keep backups of some sort? Thinking about this now that .world gets tons of attention.

66.6%? Looks like even satan has left reddit.

They need to slow the growth this place has become nearly unusable.

The API hasn't shut down yet. I don't know wtf they are doing at reddit hq but many of the apps, and nsfw posts, still work completely normally with no changes.

What are the most active communities here?

Maybe this explains why my Jerboa and Connect for Lemmy apps are sometimes showing network error and JSON pop ups.. but that's okay. Hopefully the situation will get better soon

Where can I find a lemmy community 'list like Reddit have please?

Good for Lemmy.

I doubt it’s the performance and more the lack of content. Even copy-pastas would be good at this time.

Lemmy world domination continues - I've noticed in the last few days the world communities on each topic have all surged into first place in subscriber numbers.

Came from Apollo, only been on Reddit once. That was enough for me..

Lfg!!!!! Proud to be apart of this new chapter

It's mad, even when it wouldn't load I felt no need to return to Deddit. Keep up the good work all.

I'm happy to be here. Thank you.

14k users per week, 22k users per month, makes it look like a bunch of people tried it and then didn't come back.

Now hopefully the content appears, as well

There's likely more room for growth as several apps are still working as they move to the subscription model, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is another mini wave on the horizon!

The impressive thing is the active user ratio of over 25%! Good job everyone.

Number of the bean.

I used Redact to edit out all my Reddit posts and deleted my accounts when Apollo died. Bring on the distributed communities! (Also this is weird and new and I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing, but it's exciting!)

My appreciation for Lemmy has increased 127% since I joined.

I'm actually surprised its not more some instances grew by multiples right?

Lemmy's gonna have some apps, but I can't wait until Kbin has an app too! Been really liking this so far.

8k user instance owner requires 200$ per month to cover server cost. that should 2000$ per month for lemmy.world..and counting

That is Good.

These are great news!

But lemmy.world shows me many errors if I open DevTools.. Hope this failures get resolved soon. Had to create another account on another instance to use lemmy

Glad to be here - and thank you to all of you who've been building this place so we had somewhere to go!

Anybody know how to reply to people rather then to the whole post? On memmy

But lemmy.world shows me many errors if I open DevTools.. Hope this failures get resolved soon. Had to create another account on another instance to use lemmy

Maybe this explains why my Jerboa and Connect for Lemmy apps are sometimes showing network error and JSON pop ups.. but that's okay. Hopefully the situation will get better soon