Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump?

This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.
- The grass is always greener where one side has grass and the other side is a desolate nuclear wasteland created by the incompetence of the land owner.

I've noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.
- Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.

The jump is caused by Spez being a twat.

- I haven't "left" Reddit yet, but I also have been avoiding the site as much as possible. If they're going to be a terrible site, the least I can do is try to avoid going on and making them money from ads.
  Or at least only doing so at home where I have my PiHole box to remove them.
- Wow, that bad, eh? Haven't been there for a month now. Just bot accounts everywhere?

I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!
- totally agree. I've been trying to engage more myself to encourage others to do the same
  
  yeah it's important that people post and comment. lurking is only good once there's a critical mass of content and engagement to sustain that kind of passive browsing. i hope new users will understand it's early days on this platform and content has to come from somewhere!

It's the way tech disseminates into the world.
If you've been here for a month or more, you're a first adopter and the true heroes of our cause. You take up what makes no sense to -- what is untested and will likely be a waste of time.
These people then tell the early adopters, which is what you are if you've been here for a couple weeks.
Once we got on board, we told all our friends who join, and then the whole thing keeps snowballing.
Of course, Lemmy really has Reddit to thank for making us all balk enough to take a look at fediverse stuff. Mastodon really didn't do it for me when I checked on it a couple years ago, but this is awesome and totally makes sense.
Playing around with Pleroma now so I can follow users here!
- I joined this "fediverse" three days ago, what am I?

I signed up and then went to bed. I'm assuming the world took that as a sign and followed me. Or perhaps I should cut down on the hard drugs, idk
- If you stay on them, you'll fit right in with a lot of the community

I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.

No idea myself but we have to remember that not all the users that come try this will stay, so I anticipate once the Reddit nonsense blows over the community will shrink a bit. I am going to stay, but I was "lemmy curious" before the reddit business.
- Someone made a great site for people coming from Reddit to find communitie they were a part of. https://sub.rehab/
- Most likely it's because of Reddi's bots, targeting all the other good options and making content pro-staying
  
  What do you mean?

I've been thinking about joining for the last few weeks. The reason I did today was because the developer of my favorite app (sync) announced they would be releasing a lemmy version

I'm attempting to move on from Reddit. Heard good things about Lemmy. I'm checking things out.

I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.
I don't even use third party apps. It's just that I can't give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.

Reddit is fucked
All hail the new website

This instance gives a clue maybe?
https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.wiuf.net
It looks like it's only a day old and it has 11k users. There isn't any content on it either. There are a few instances like that, you can see them here: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They all have low MAU, 10k or so users, and low Status Count.
Quite a few are showing about 10k new users in the past day or so. Probably they're small instances without bot protection or instances made to support bots.
- Can this be reported to those tech savvy enough to know what to do? Fantastic find. These instances might well be preparing bots for attack.

In my opinion, the output of the disastrous Zoom meeting with the moderators & community of /r/Blind .
Reddit leadership made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for their users. They essentially refused to answer essential questions for the disabled Reddit community.
I guess Spez thinks nobody will care as long as they get their fill of GIFs and pics? I have no idea. I'm not closing out my account, but whatever reddit intended to sell to me, I'm not buying it.
- What happened to the blind community?
  
  It's terrible, but most of them have lost their sight.
  ( i am very sorry for this post)
- Is there a link to this, wasn't aware of a zoom meeting
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14ds81l/rblinds_meetings_with_reddit_and_the_current/

I'm just here so i don't get fined. created an account because the developer for my reddit app is working on One for lemmy. So figured I'd give this a try
- Correct

For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I've put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.
- Hear Hear!
  I'm sick of the internet being only 5 websites!

For me, LJ Dawson, the Dev of Sync for Reddit posted that he is making a Lemmy app. I was planning on leaving Reddit at the end of June, so I signed up! I'm extremely happy to be here!
Edited: messed up posting the Dev's name. Thanks @DTFpanda@lemmy.world

Someone mentioned it on a Reddit post about mods so I'm giving it a go. Stopped Twitter a while back and don't use Facebook. I like the concept of aggregated content around topics I'm interested in just not by evil companies.

Soon we will look back amazed at these growing little numbers. They're growing quickly but I expect it to grow by one or two more orders of magnitude over the coming months!

There was a post that has code snippet that tells lemmy admins to turn on email verification and captcha.
And then lemmy.world admin turned off signup for a little while to clean up bot accounts.
Then account numbers jumped 84k in one day.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
- I left something out
  The code snippet was 24 lines of Python code that demonstrate how to generate random username and password and call lemmy's API to register account.

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Wanted to ditch Reddit following all the nonsense around their API changes, but still wanted Reddit-esque news aggregation + discussions from somewhere.
Googling for alternatives initially led me to Beehaw, but they don't have the sufficiently granular niche communities I wanted. Searching for communities I wanted to subscribe to led me here, and after refreshing myself on how the fediverse worked I realised I should just create a login here instead. So far, so good!

/u/spez brought us here.
Thanks spez!
- Think he has an account here to check it out? I hope he does and sees this: Fuck. You.
- In another way: "Thank you and fuck you /u/spez, I hope your IPO crashes and burns."

Seems like reddit just fresher. Not clogged up with all the bullshit. Also I feel like I'm on the ground level of a reddit competitor that seems to be protected from corporate bullshit.

It's snowballing. A few friends tell a few friends, and so on, and so on, and so on...

Reddit's meltdown
- To make a long story short... Reddit's doing a DEEPLY UNPOPULAR API change that effectively wipes out 3rd party tools and clients, which sparked site-wide protests. Reddit's CEO is now having a pretty public meltdown and threatening moderators partaking in said protests. Lemmy popped up in a good number of discussions on Reddit in regards to the situation. Queue the start of a mass-exodus of Reddit users and mods to Lemmy

Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:
r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.
Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.
- Do you have a link to the new post by the Apollo dev?
  
  Here‘s a link where someone copied the post to kbin. There‘s also a link to reddit

gaining critical mass?

Everyone figuring out /u/spez is full of shit

I joined a couple days ago. I decided to just sign up and jump in. Everyone else doing it, why can't I?

This is my first post, I just signed up. I was on reddit from the early days. I liked it then a lot more. This has that feel. I also like that it is open source - hopefully that will bring more developers.

Keep in mind too that the expiration date for many of the mainstream third party Reddit apps is June 30
Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days
- Reddit is already turning into shit. Like literall shit, except it's digital shit, but still shit.
  Feeling horny? Visit r/horny. Oh wait, that's christian minecraft discussions!
  Wanna learn something new? Visit r/InterestingAsFuck. Oh wait, that's interesting porn positions!
  Wanna see what is going in gaming community? Just visit r/steam! Oh wait, it's choo choo shitwreck powered by steam engines!
  No wonder why people are looking for Reddit alternative, and Lemmy might be just the right option. :)
- Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days
  I'm here now trying to get ahead of it.

Oh, that must have been me.

Ljdawson said he was making sync for Lemmy so I signed up

spez's continued jackassery. I made the switch about 24h ago.
- The post by the Apollo creator was the final nail for me. It really laid everything out there pretty well. Let it go be Tumblr somewhere

meeee

Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there's lots of instances to spread the burden.

A lot of us haven’t been able to create accounts due to high activity. It looks like account creation requests have finally started going through.

Got sick of Reddit, looked for alternatives, found sub.rehab, found Lemmy was common… here I am.

Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…

I use RIF exclusively on mobile. I never use reddit from my computer. The interface isn't all that different from RIF when on mobile, so I'm giving it a shot. Lots of the other places listed as "reddit alternatives" were mostly just discussion and not community focused and link sharing sites. I like it so far. (my first post!)

Hopefully is not an army of bots, but for me that's the most plausible explanation.
- Lemm.ee's admin said he had to defederate a lot of smaller instances because they were having trouble with bots
- No, it's most-definitely spez removing entire moderator teams of popular subreddits.
  
  I came too because off the newest anti user behavior of reddits CEO and Admins. Made an Account on feddit.de and now have access to all Communities in the Fediverse.
  I was using Infinity for reddit most of the past years and would not switch back to the awful reddit default Android App.
  The official lemmy App is not perfect. But all ready good enough to be used with mostly no bigger issues. Mostly lacking in some features compared to infinity.
- It likely is spam/bot accounts. Multiple admins of instances with open reg have commented/posted about having to fight bot sign-ups the past few days. The only fix that helped (they said) was to enable captcha. There's a git issue on the lemmy project mentioning that they are removing captcha, so the admins are particularly worried about that...

I’ve avoided Reddit since Sunday and am missing being able to see what’s going on without having to visit tech blogs/news sites/etc…
Decided might as well make the next jump and propel the death of Dig, I mean reddit
- Check this out! https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/14c2v5x/build_your_own_apk_with_your_personal_api_key_in/
  
  This is not the way. By using Reddit you are essentially giving money to the shareholders. You are fattening the rich. It is pathetic. Stop using reddit, fullstop.
  You are here on Lemmy. Help the community instead of trying to redirect traffic back to reddit...

Im really enjoying my experience here on Lemmy. Kinda like how I enjoyed reddit in the beginning

not that surprising really - many, MANY people are fed up with centralized link aggregation/social media/reddit in general & the fediverse is an excellent option
- I'm tired of capitalism and greed ruining everything I love!

Been signing up to reddit alts all week. Finally got to Lemmy.
- Same actually. What all have you signed up for? I've only signed up for Lemmy and kbin so far.
  
  I found my inbox lol.
  plebbit steemit saidit Squabbles
  there may have been a few others. I like the old.reddit look of some, especially saidit, but lemmy seems to be the most active
- Hi. Same for me.

I heard about it through a negative review of Reddit in the AppStore and decided to check it out. Reddit permanently banned me for “abuse of the report function” though I had only reported a few things in my many, many years on the site. Then they proceeded to ban my entire family’s accounts because we share an IP address. Right after all of that, the news about third party apps came out and here we are.
I hope Lemmy continues to grow!