Lemmy.world reaches new milestone: 100k users and counting!
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!
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!!!
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?
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Lenny ftw, so much better than Reffit
Not Lenny!
I came due to protest, but staying for quality of fediverse users (posting from kbin)
I was waiting for a MicroWave thread about this 😁
Congratulations everyone for this milestone! 🥳
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!
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 @ruud@lemmy.world
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
Me too, it’s amazing to see how quickly Lemmy is growing now
What the hell ? Feels like it was sitting at 30k just a couple days ago, insane growth.
And still silent on the status of Meta defederation.
It's not federated yet anyway.
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 👍
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 just signed up the other day once I discovered the dev for Sync was starting development on a Lemmy app.
I wanted to ask regular Lemmy users... What is your opinion on the influx of people from Reddit? Do you fear it will change the social atmosphere here, or do you welcome new users to the community?
I've seen plenty of posts venting about Reddit already, and I imagine that'll probably get tiring really fast for long lasting Lemmy users (Lemmyers?)
First, it is not just lemmy, it is the fediverse (replying to you from kbin.social - my preferred cup of tea). Second, I see that the mostly good people/posters are leaving Reddit, I do not see, for example, personal attacks when people disagree here in fediverse, I see no removed/moderated comments or posts. I am sure it happens here too, it is just so rare… it reminds me of the days of mass migration from digg. So, at least for now I think this is great, and it separates people who are ready to stand for principles from the rest. Welcome.
I agree, the vibe has generally been more upbeat and optimistic, with the occasional venting. Thank you for the welcome! I'm still figuring out how the fediverse works, but it makes sense more or less. Hopefully more people can see the benefit of truly being in control of your content you put out, as well as the content that you see.
Yea so far it's great. I'd imagine once it's easier to access, well see a slow decline in quality discourse and content, but that's all things, so I'm just enjoying the moment tbh.
hopefully the principles of federated networking will help keep that to a minimum though? It'll be interesting to see how people that are used to Twitter/Reddit will adapt to their counterparts when theyre so used to being kept in a very defined box.
The third party app I used for reddit said that this is the platform they were going to focus on. That's why I came. Those are the people I want to support. The people that make the experience better. Once they release an app I'll buy it first day
Sync for reddit show such message, can't waut for it to switch to Lemmy.
Also feel free to support Lemmy itself by donating to the project
Yep, same. That's why I'm here now. On the Connect app though, but it feels similar to Sync.
Hmm... are you here for boost? That's why I joined Lemmy!
Just a week and a half ago, we were celebrating going from #2 to #1 most populous instance. And just 2 weeks before that, I had no idea what a lemmy was.
It's like catching a nice surf wave.
I'm not going back to Reddit, that's for sure. Unless...they come up with an i486 theme...🤔
Me neither!
That makes three of us!
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.
Very happy to be part of this community - feels like home to me!
I like Kbin better, but I am happy and proud to contribute to this rapidly expanding family of communities that repudiates control by megacorps and Big Tech.
It's amazing how well it handles the load now compared to just a few weeks before
Not only is Rudd doing and amazing job as admin of the instance, they are also really transparent ab ob it the challenges in their frequent updates!
Congratulations and keep going strong, Lemmy.world! Just joined 2 days ago myself and loving it so far (first ever comment testing). Cheers👍!
Glad to be part of the growth. Congrats! 🎇
glad to be a part of this community!
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.
This is awesome!!! Glad to be here before the first 100k and before the change to Voyager from WefWef.
It's been handled amazingly well on the whole, too!
Congrats on the milestone! @MicroWave@lemmy.world would it be possible (if you haven't done so already) to make one for Lemmy usage across all instances (or at least the major ones)?
Congrats on the milestone! @MicroWave@lemmy.world would it be possible (if you haven’t done so already) to make one for Lemmy usage across all instances (or at least the major ones)?
Great suggestion. Sure, I can do that. I think I'll aggregate the top 10 non-bot instances.
Thanks! It'll be really nice to see how many people are giving Lemmy a good try.
Can I count on 100K "Barbie" ticket sales from everyone here on Lemonworld then? (Only in theaters July 21st)
Very nice! Long may it continue.
Fantastic!
Long live lemmy, and death to Reddit!
Chef's kiss 👩🍳
Fk yea!
Really excited to see how this platform develops
3 comments per user...
Checks profile
Sounds about right...
Vlemmy refugees flocking in?
Impressive and amazing. I expect the Fediverse will continue to grow - in terms of users, content and engagement. It is like a breath of fresh air compared with the legacy social media.
Congrats, ya'll! 🥳
I hope it picks up speed so i get more content like on reddit but..yeah. im very happy with the switch and its only been a day for me.
Happy to be a part of this.
And I'm all here for it!
I'm doing my part!
I like the i386 theme
Let's go!!
I was here!!!!
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It seems like it just got hacked. it just redirects now. RIP.
Glad to be enjoying this community and the way it's growing. Love not having ads and being free from corporate greed
we should all unite and fk u/spez
Awesome :D
<3 you guys are great, truly. Love talking with you.
Wait, this instance only started on June 1? How did it grow so quickly compared to the rest?
A lot of subreddits moved to Lemmy.world so in turn I think a lot of the reddit migration ended up here (myself included). Mastodon.world already had a large user base so it probably just made sense to rely on their new lemmy instance to handle the new users. Other instances like lemmy.ml sort of froze new signups at the time so that also funneled more users this way.
It was the first to throw some real money behind it's server infrastructure. A month ago most Lemmy instances - even the "big" ones ran on $10 a month 2 vCPU VPSs.
There was another influx early in June when the API changes were announced but before the blackouts even happened.
Most instances with public signups started struggling but Lemmy.world launched and Ruud upgraded the server hardware almost daily to keep up.
Other instances even had to pause signups from time to time but world kept working and so gobbled up most signups on those days.
Once it got to be a top 3 instance and then top 2 and then first it became a self sustaining snowball as a lot of people chose the biggest instance by default.
Being general-purpose, having easy sign-up without needing an "application" or manual approval, and having decent reliability/uptime.
Just a beginning my friends