Lemmy's total users exceeds 740k today, up from 540k yesterday

Agreed. It's really nice to see top posts having a lot of thoughtful engagement. Hopefully we'll have enough to start seeing people branching out to smaller niche communities too.

For example, your comment is the first one I have seen that has over 30 upvotes since I came on board a week back.

It's been amazing to feel like we're part of something that's growing so fast. I'll miss Reddit but I expect Lemmy will fill in the role sooner rather than later.

Just heard the news about Sync and instantly registered here. I'll still be hoping for Boost to cross over, but Sync is infinitely better than Reddit's app. A decent client was all that was missing for me to make the plunge, let's hope that's the case for more people.

And yes, fuck Spez

We'll know Lemmy truly is the future when we have the first shittymorph post.

I read shittymorph's most recent Undertaker post in a thread the other day. It felt like a semi retirement post; at least that's the vibe I got from it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14d27a0/til_the_undertaker_was_engulfed_in_flames_during/joo8djg/

Maybe some will migrate here, maybe new ones will pop up. End of an era either way though.

I want to see shittywatercolors here in the fediverse!

Where are you shitty? We want your colors of water

/shrugs. I got my old username. I'm happy.

Yeah that's a bad instance.

Apparently a lot of those bots are just farming reddit and reposting here. Which I think in the short term is a good thing. People are more likely to join/stay if they see content. On the other I hope lemmy has the tools to prevent bot content from overwhelming user generated posts to the point that it loses the authenticity.

I don't see the proof in that link, although maybe I'm missing something, it just seems to imply that is the case.

before lemmy blew up the count was 150k but many joined in the last few days. sure many are boys but until an effective way to filter them out is there we can't know the precise numbers.

I don't understand. Are you claiming that the first 150k users that signed up are all real and that since the rate of growth has increased exponentially that it couldn't possibly be real users signing up? I don't dispute that some of it is bots for sure. There are clearly places that have 20k users and 2 posts and stuff like that that are very suspicious. But I don't think it's at all reasonable to assert that all of the growth that has occurred are bots. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that. In fact, I would argue that the amount of activity (posts and comments) increasing alongside the user count is evidence to the contrary. I understand that bots can make posts too, but apart from the obviously labelled bots that are reposting content from reddit and stuff like that, I haven't seen any bot spam accounts posting links to suspicious sites or anything like that at all. Unless you're claiming that the bots are posting normal looking comments so that people think they are human? I don't understand.

Yeah, no idea whether this is spammers trying to stake turf or someone trying to inflate the user count to stick it to reddit (or something) but the numbers from the 18th on are clearly inauthentic.

Im doing my part!

AND MY AXE!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3200

https://geddit.social/post/25346

Yep it's nice an alternative getting popular

Were you using new reddit? I don't find it that different from old.reddit (which is fine by me).

Exactly! I’m so happy it finally seems to be an alternative to Reddit, which has mutated into such a weird monster

hello I'm actually really dumb

I've been on Lemmy since last Monday (like 10 days). It's meteoric!

Back then, simply posting ANYTHING automatically meant you made the front page.

I'm in the middle of doing the same. Its a shame when you go through your list of subreddits and can't find an equivelant community on here. Nevermind niche subs, there will still be plenty of 1mil+ subs which are missing from here.

Nor do I want to create and be the only mod of about 20 different subs. I feel like that requires a special sort of person lol.

I am building my wall of Subscribe Pendings, which I tend to like a butterfly collection.

To help you the rebuilding.

If you want to see stats of real instances, the "All lemmy nodes" table on this page actually lists the real non-bot instances at the top: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

The situation has worsened. I counted about 2 million new "users" in 3 days.

I keep seeing new communities daily and we're already the size of a decent city and much larger than the city I grew up in. We had all types from punks to queer kids to commies and fascists. We've got enough users to fill any niche I can think of and probably a lot more. And we're still growing, I don't remember reddit when it was this young, but there's a bit of an early 4chan (minus all the racism and homophobia and hate) vibe going on that I totally dig!

Just check https://lemmit.online/c/itookapicture . Sadly only bot posts

Same, and I'm already loving this place

Yes, I expect some instances to have some difficulty coping with the traffic in July

I sometimes go to Reddit again, mostly by habit, but once Relay stops working, I'm done.

Give it sometimes and post yourself

The best way to solve that is post some links and get the ball rolling. Can't get engagement without something to engage with. (I am guilty of not posting links myself lol)

I can confirm that after a week of people posting links, I - a real user - finally took the plunge to sign up today.

-Sincerely, cdipierr-bot

It will be fixed in the next update says a developer, here

replace the "1" in the url with "0" -- so "/page/1" turns into "/page/0"

it's an easy bandaid until they fix it!

Far and away the biggest problem at the moment, lol.

On desktop in the address bar change the end from /page/1 -> /page/0 ;)

Oh shiiet, my fellow apes are here!

It's run by the same guy who runs mastodon.world (Ruud) so he has experience with huge servers. Apparently this server is currently set up to handle a million users. Here's the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mastodonworld

Might be necessary. I don’t see any good coming from hundreds of thousands of bots.

while you're at. take a look at what instances beehaw has blocked. they might be crazy, but they aren't that crazy. nobody needs to be federated with pleroma instances with something like 30 nazis on them and nobody else (3/4 or more of this software)

Just block them. going to have to with the number of bots on it.

I typed my old Reddit username in at first then said “wait a minute…”, somehow nobody took my simple first name in the first several hundred thousand accounts created!

You could always host your own instance and be the only user with your special user and connect to other instances' communities.

You're very grad

Thanks I will have that stuck in my head for the night.

This has been a dream of mine as well! I kept saying “why hasn’t someone created a better social media platform, especially an anonymous one like Reddit?” I didn’t know Lemmy existed until I went to post a negative review for Reddit and saw it plugged in someone else’s negative review for Reddit. I’m so happy it exists!

Hello!

I self host! Very nice having an instance all to myself.

You could self host :)

Jerboa is a mobile app for Lemmy!

Hello!

"Sync for reddit" was one of the more popular Android apps for reddit

I assume its a target for bots because its a lie hanging fruit.

Also it's harder to find bots down the road

Im here to spam too ;)

Click on your profile, and go to settings. Then change interface language to English. But this seems like the wrong kind of thread for posting support questions.

How are you using the browser version? I just can't browse /all without having a new post pushing down the feed every 5 seconds I find it unusable.

Sync is in the works!!

Artemis for Lemmy/kbin looks like Apollo's spiritual successor

On phone by default, the theme follows your phone. Set the phone to dark mode and it should switch.

If it isn’t or if you’re on PC go to themes in your user settings and manually change it.

Simply use darkreader extension!