1y ago

Reddit is down

Is there a place to watch lemmy user numbers in real time? interested to see if there's a spike as users try out something else with their new free time.

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And nothing of value was lost.
- Don’t kid yourself. Reddit was valuable to pretty much all of you or else you wouldn’t continuously shitpost about it.
  Also I know you’re a former redditor because you’re parroting the same tired-ass old line that is top comment on every thread about something bad happening to someone or some thing they don’t like. Get some new material.
  EDIT: Speaking of getting new material, I should try not to be as snarky. Get the alien out of your head, my man. We don't need to do that to entertain ourselves anymore. I apologize to @errer@lemmy.world, and I take that shit back. I hope you got a laugh out of it as intended, even though there was no real way to tell it was supposed to be a bit cheeky.
  It did still frustrate me to see all that knowledge just hand-waved like what happened was no big deal. I guess "couldn't have happened to a nicer boardroom" or something would have clicked better lol but I'd imagine we're probably on the same page about it at the end of the day.
  Anyway, let's all be cool, Lemmy fucking rocks, we're nice here, save the sarcasm for mocking actual malice instead of eating each other. I'll try to be better.
  
  The reason everyone is so mad is because reddit has been so valuable and useful this past 15 years and they are ruining it.
  
  Why are so many people openly hostile towards redditors? Are you trying to get us to leave?
  What you're failing to realize is that Lemmy needs new users in order to grow. You may not like the removed, but it keeps conversations going which drives more engagement to the site.
  Stop trying to push people away from the platform. People need an alternative to reddit. They've been a monopoly since 2010; it's time for that to change. Won't happen if redditors don't want to come here because they feel unwanted.
  So please, try to chill the fuck out. And leave us be.
  
  I think both things can be true -- we have a superior replacement, so Reddit is now of considerable lower value, but also Reddit was super important to me and I'm still deeply invested in it's "demise".
  I certainly think that reports of Reddit's death are greatly exaggerated and also would like to see less Reddit-related content, but I think there's space for people who were avid Redditors to have become true believers in the fediverse.
  
  You're on a post discussing the potential funneling of Reddit users to Lemmy.world, yet criticize someone for potentially being a Reddit user?
  This is the first impression you're setting for them; you're not protecting Lemmy nor are you representing it.
  Chill dude, let it organically change if you're tired of Reddit, a lot of people are too.
  
  Don’t kid yourself. Reddit was valuable to pretty much all of you or else you wouldn’t continuously shitpost about it.
  It doesn't really work that way. Lots of people visited subreddits like cringetopia, whatcouldgowrong, confidentlyincorrect, etc. Basically a compulsion to kill time by gawking at dumb people doing dumb stuff. That doesn't mean those subreddits or that use of time had actual value, even to that specific person though.
  
  Reddit was valuable
  Indeed, it "was".
  
  As much as I'd love to ditch Reddit completely, I just had to use information from a few Reddit posts to fix an issue on my home server. I hate to say it, but Reddit is extremely valuable.
  
  You do know which community you're posting in right?
  
  Yes it was valuable. Before July. Now it has lost its value.
  
  Also, it was full of knowledge that has been deleted. I'm starting my Linux journey and every error I get has at least one Reddit post about it. Most answers are deleted and I have to go on other sites.
  I'd say we did lose a lot. It's akin to an autodafé.
  
  It’s best to assume everyone here was a redditor, I included.
  
  I know you're a Redditor too lol you can tell just by how you wrote your comment. the snarky dissenting takedown, the fatigue over redditisms, the righteousness mixed with hypocrisy, etc
  
  It had value before. It doesn’t anymore. Not a hard concept to understand.
  
  Nice to hear your a big softie and not only do you let companies walk all over you but you defend them for it😂
- Always upvote "The Critic" references.
- Really there's a lot of value lost because of all the knowledge and solutions that have been posted there. I use solutions to obscure problems and tutorials are posted there from five years ago. It's a shame that some of those will be lost along with a whole bunch of history

Shit. Where are people going to tell Spez to fuck himself now?
- Here
  
  f u/spez
  Hm... it's not the same.
- Let me get this right. Sync for lemmy comes out... Reddit goes down....
  Hm...
  
  Typing from infinity for lemmy
- I don't know, I've still been seeing that a lot on Lemmy, too.

What’s Reddit?
- A closed source centralized Lemmy alternative
  
  Sounds too brittle. No thanks.
  
  That was Good
- Remember Digg? It's basically like that.
  
  Reddit did the Digg. It's already buried into oblivion.
  
  It's just more gradual with reddit because of how development works now
- whats a "spez"?
  
  Idk but fuck spez
  
  It's a fleshlight modeled to look like a pez dispenser. When the mouth pops open, instead of candy coming out, your c#*k goes in.
- I think I know that place? Was it... a dream? I'm not sure.
  
  Unexpected Skyrim.
- The Sunday Newspaper Insert of the Internet.
  
  Hey i got yelled at for telling someone not to go hard on reddit tropes, so let's do some instead to make up for it:
  The CVS receipt of the Internet

I joined lemmy when they killed Apollo. Should have done it so much sooner, this is way better!
- Before Reddit killed Apollo, Lemmy was really lacking in daily content. Now we've reached a point where I can open the app multiple times a day and see new content.
  
  I think there were a lot of issues around trending older posts eclipsing newer posts meaning older posts stayed on the front page too long. That seems to have improved recently though
- It was the same for me. I think joined the same day. To be honest, I haven't looked back at reddit. I enjoy the communities here, and some devs to great work on apps like memmy and mlem. Both feature a lot of Apollo App.
- Same, but Boost for me.
  
  boost gang rise up
- I quit the moment Baconreader could no longer fetch API and deleted my 10 yr account. Lemmy is amazing, especially in its potential down the road in my view.
- Something hilarious that I discovered: If you still have an old copy of Alien Blue on your phone, it still works. Haven't tried all the functions but I guess the API key must be the same as the official app (since they bought it and just started working on it).
  I'm staying off reddit because my big mad protest will surely convince a corporation not to ruin itself by having no decent plan to become profitable (ha), but if you're looking to still browse with a not shitty app it might still be working lol
- I only used Reddit thanks to Sync. Credit to the dev as they announced they were moving to Lemmy as part of their last update. I thought, what is Lemmy? Let me try it out.
  Now I'm here. If it wasn't for Spez being an idiot killing the APIs, I wouldn't have known Lemmy existed. So for the first and only time, that's Spez for encouraging me find something better.

Not sure if this is actually realtime, but this site has charts: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
- Why is lemmy.world listed as USA when neither the founding admin nor the server are located there?
  
  I think they put it behind Cloud Flare after some DDOS attempts. It could be that.
- I don't see my instance on there.
  
  Maybe because not enough have federated with you yet, or you don't have enough users to be listed yet? I don't know.

FediDB: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
- Those are some big boy numbers. 2 mil posts and almost 1/4mil active users. Getting there!
  
  138k active users to 554k total users is about 25%, which I would imagine is significantly higher than most social media.
  Is someone marked an active user if they ever voted or posted a comment/post, or do they drop off if they haven’t done so in 14 days?
- Thanks!
- Kbin had way less users but same activity.... Doing my part!

I just went to Reddit.com. It looks like it's up but all of the posts on the main page are from 9 hrs ago or older (I didn’t scroll very far to see if there were newer ones).
I went to the search and looked up Redditalternatives. I got two error messages - "We had a server error..." and "Request failed." But the sub appeared behind the error pop ups. I see sub posts from 2 and 4 hrs ago.
Does this mean that Reddit is down? I don't want to engage too much with the site to find out.

Go outside and watch bamboo grow!
- Go outside and touch some rhododendrons.
  
  what if they touch back

It's still down 10 hours later!
This is big. Something is happening there.
- nah it's operational, it was only down for a short while: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/
  
  It was down when I posted that comment. I went to sleep with Reddit down and woke up with Reddit down. I read people here saying that it was down at different times in that period. I was a bit hopeful that this was the end of Reddit.
  I'm so sorry for my mistake, I hope you guys can forgive me some day.

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f u/spez

That was Good