The jump is caused by Spez being a twat.
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.
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!
I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.
I have signed up to so many communities on here with the hope that once Lemmy gets bigger, I can leave the ones I don’t actually want to be involved in. I also posted my first-ever meme. Let’s contribute to make this a reddit alternative!
This is the way
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Yeah, the drama over there is pure reality TV level right now.
Wow, that bad, eh? Haven’t been there for a month now. Just bot accounts everywhere?
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.
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!
Yeah I learned so much reading other people’s comments, so I’m trying to recreate that on this site.
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.
Try sorting by “Top Day” if you haven’t already until it’s fixed.
New is good
New is only good in small communities. A feed with, I’m guessing, 10,000+ users, it’s a challenge to read titles before new posts causes them to scroll off the screen.
gaining critical mass?
Reddit is fucked
All hail the new website
Hopefully is not an army of bots, but for me that’s the most plausible explanation.
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.
Lemm.ee’s admin said he had to defederate a lot of smaller instances because they were having trouble with bots
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…
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.
I’m attempting to move on from Reddit. Heard good things about Lemmy. I’m checking things out.
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
Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there’s lots of instances to spread the burden.
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!)
