• Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    We’ve definitely noticed an increase in signups at lemmy.ca when that news was announced. Not all active users yet, but a lot of signups

  • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Only 50k? I thought it would be much more than that. Didn’t know Lemmy was still this small after all these years.

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      There are probably a lot of lurkers who don’t vote or comment, but there is no way to know their numbers

  • RangerJosie@sffa.communityEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I’m new here coming from Reddit.

    Yalls subreddit needs links to here. And a short guide on getting started.

    I had to scroll a bunch of comments to find the right name to Google. Then I had to find the most popular app to use. It was a bit of a hassle. Not too bad. But enough to be off-putting to newbies.

    • Knossos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      The benefit is also it’s curse. It’s all open, so there can be a bunch of names and a bunch of apps. Nobody agrees what the best app is.

      But once you get your own ecosystem set up, it is amazing.

      Which is a huge hurdle for new people 😬

    • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      Please tell your friends to join LemmyWorld (biggest instance) and install the app Voyager (cross platform support) to get started on the platform!

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    every time spez opens his mouth a bunch of people go “hmm let me see if there’s something else”

  • obbeel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I like Lemmy’s culture better. It isn’t perfect, and maybe someday I’ll create my own instance. And I can do that.

  • Sesudesu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I’m now here due to the Reddit news. I’m still browsing both, but I look forward to changing over.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    It is lower from where it was in june (48.472) and the data seem to indicate a negative trajectory , also lemmy donations seem to be the lowest i remember them to be.

    So i would not get too confident, the project IMO needs to focus on highly requested killer features. My impression they focusing too much on technical issues that don’t seem to be really important in a way that reminds me of the infamous The CADT Model rant of Jamie Zawinski. Do we really need to do a UI rewrite?

  • Yambu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    I got banned from reddit for criticizing the mods of a popular subreddit. Perm-ban on a white vest account for saying the mods are crybabies as they once again complained about having to mod the sub.

    Fuck reddit. Fuck spez.

    • Asudox@lemmings.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I agree. I came here for two reasons:

      • Reddit is proprietary
      • Shit mods
      • API paid
      • Karma system

      Though I still do crave the niche communities from Reddit and I might occassionally visit Reddit once in a while on my browser for them, otherwise the ads are pretty unbearable for me. The UI is also so fucking bloated. Fuck spez

    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      I pretty much got permabanned for ban evasion, even though I was on an alt that has no reference to the others other than being on the same IP, my other accounts got banned simultaneously.

      • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Same thing happened to me. 7-day ban evasion suspension instantly into a perma on three accounts at once all because a single subreddit mod threw a fit when I accidentally posted there again off r/all on an alt.

        They were all made with the same email address so I could have easily made another alt by now and kept posting but I’ve taken it as an opportunity to do a Reddit detox

  • Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    06·
    3 months ago

    Probably due to Reddit fuckary. Between power-hungry, ban-happy mods and Reddit talking about possibly charging for select subs, I definitely bailed and came here.

    Two days old today, baaabbby!!

    Doing my part tho! I’ve created 5 communities and have posted over 100 times in the last two days. :)