You all might not be aware, but I think Rudd started this server only at the beginning of June for funsies, probably only expecting a couple of hundred users.
Then, of course, came Reddit API-calypse. Now, here we are barely 4 weeks later, almost 80k users on the instance. From nothing, to a respectable chuck of the fediverse, just that fast. Pretty amazing.
True, I opened my account June 1st on Beehaw, lemmy.world didn’t exist yet. But I had to open an account on LW when BH defederated them…
I’m happy to see .world growing for this reason. There has to be a neutral ground for everyone. The gatekeeping of communities like Beehaw are fine for them, but in order for the lemmy to grow, it has to be shapeable by the community. Moderation screening, content rigidity, and walled gardens are antithetical to the type of social network that people are looking for as a replacement to Reddit. The community has to be allowed to make the place its own.
Edit: For the record, I’m perfectly aware they plan to refederate once they get their “moderation” tools. I just question what tools they deem sufficient to permit refederation. Moderation tools on Lemmy will be extremely powerful thanks to votes being public, and I don’t trust admins of some of these instances to be responsible or fair with them, or to only use them on the most toxic elements. Petty, groundless shadowbanning and admin “curation” is going to plague Lemmy going forward, mark my words. That’s why we need some neutral ground.
I made an account on sh.itjust.works because world was having some issues registering new users. Because of this small issue I ended up taking a deep dive into learning about the Fediverse. It’s such a cool concept and really easy to use once you familiarize yourself with it.
It’s also awesome that instances can federate with one another, so communities can continue to grow! I was apprehensive of making the switch initially due to the presumption that it would require a steep learning curve, but I learned how to access, browse, and interact on lemmy in 15 minutes or less lol.
I keep mentioning it, but the fediverse reminds me of my early days of browsing reddit back in the mid-late 2000s. Lemmy feels like home and I can’t wait to see it grow :)
And it’s real good to see you here, if this is the original PK.
Yep, it’s really me! I made my first sourced comment the other day about Twitter and Elon Musk.
Okay I was a chronic lurker on Reddit but seeing you here gives me hope for the Soccer community on this site, which has thus far been a huge gaping hole. I honestly haven’t used anything other than r/Soccer to keep up with football news in many years so I hope Lemmy can shoulder that burden sooner rather than later. It’s probably the one part of Reddit that I’m really struggling to replace and/or live without.
Hey o/
Yea truth be told I still visit r/soccer and r/reddevils to catch up on football related news every morning/evening. The communities on Lemmy are still growing and while the more popular communities are very active, niche communities like sports will take some time.
Check out the football community on Lemmy, it’s starting to get active. I’ve recently started posting too.
I’m not sure how to link directly to a community, so here’s a link to one of my posts. You can click on the community and subscribe https://sh.itjust.works/post/701657
Keep in mind, dear folks, simply coming ain’t enough. Be sure to stay and visit often, otherwise the rich assholes win ;)
“Why are you scrolling gonewild again?” “freedom depends on it” “oh. Carry on, I guess”
Honestly, I also try to be more active as a user in Lemmy, and it feels way more rewarding because it feels like a more tight-knitly community here. Like it a lot!
The breadth and depth of comments is what I’ve missed most from the past. Really happy to see these posts in the 1000s of upvotes with 100s of comments. I’ll try to do my part.
I also find it refreshing to see, what I assume is, the actual amount of votes on posts and comments again. Makes it more human maybe instead of an arbitrary number
It checks all the boxes for me. No bots, no spam, mostly coherent adults, feels just like using reddit.
I hate to sound all hipster, but a super big community does typically end up ruining themselves. It’s nothing against the fandom itself or even the majority of people in it, it’s just that eventually more toxic people will be included as popularity increases.
That was my biggest gripe nearing the end of reddit and how all subs past 250k subs felt like they either became /r/pics, /r/videos, or /r/funny
i really like it without the bots. what worries me is that with influx of users eventually bots will arrive. but hopefully without karma system atleast karmafarming bots won’t materialise
Lemmy perfectly represents the adage “building the plane as you fly it” and it’s been so much fun seeing it take shape.
It’s great. In weeks people has packed their bags and badabing badaboom new community. The party continues as reddit never happened (besides the gloating ofc)
Love the decentralized model. I’m so over corporate run sites looking to make a profit
Migrated here from RIF (RIP), lemmy.world being suggested on top of the how to join guide definitely played a part in choosing this instance along with all the recommendations from other users.
Definitely feel much more inclined to comment here than on Reddit as of late, all the regurgitated meme shitposts and karma farming bot comments were getting really old. If it takes donating / paying a sub to keep Lemmy human discussion focused, that’s what I will do.
This is not a good thing. Part of the problem is third-party apps like Sync and other Fediverse advocates that direct Reddit users to sign up on only one instance, lemmy.world. This is understandable to keep things simple for the Redditors but it hurts lemmy.world (cost and performance-wise) and the Fediverse as a whole (centralization) to have a lot of accounts on one instance. I hope lemmy.world can make an announcement or guide to encourage users to spread out to more instances.
I think another reason too is that .world is run by Ruud who is a trusted actor in the space (he already runs Mastodon.world, a large mastodon instance), and so many (including me) probably felt it would be a safe harbor and not likely to get shut down or run poorly.
Maybe ony Lemmy.world’s registration page thay can list other instances that they trust and endorse.
This is a brilliant idea. Drive all the traffic to lemmy.world as it seems like the “main hub”, then when registering drive users to a few other instances as well
How is it possible to decentralise sign ups and see/searchable content and tabs? I used to be tech savvy but these days I struggle a bit. Turning into a dinosaur.
Find instances on https://join-lemmy.org
Find subs (communities) on https://browse.feddit.de
These are great suggestions, but for finding communities, I would recommend https://lemmyverse.net/communities instead.
The Interface is nicer, you can directly get the !community@instance.tld string for searching it locally, and it doesn’t use a large blocklist like feddit.de sadly does.
Thank you for having us.
I’d move to a closer instance, if I new they were in it for the long run and not shut down when they get bored after a few months. What happens if the instance I’m registered to decides to shut down?
congrats from .ca!
while im here: does anybody actually know why lemmy.world grew the fastest out of all of the instances? its not the “main” instance like .ml, not a safe space like beehaw, and a normal general instance like itjust.works. im curious why out of all places, .world got the main influx
.world is biggest because it’s the biggest. Also RIF.
oh damn a rif redirect happened?
I think it was the instance referenced in the RIF goodbye message. That’s what got me here, anyway.
For what it’s worth what sold me on .world is the slogan, front-page of the internet. It may or may not be misleading but I’m after a Reddit replacement with a mix of all communities.
As I explore more I may go elsewhere but so far it has the Reddit feel.
is the slogan, front-page of the internet
so far it has the Reddit feel
isnt that reddits slogan? no kidding, buddy. no kidding. (i mean this in a positive way)
Because on the main Lenny website world shows up as recommended. The other recommended sites want users to put an email in addition to a write up on what they can offer. Which totally kills interest for any new people.
I think the main Lenny website is to blame here tbh. It pushing users towards a few preset instances that are not really new user friendly.
Some are not accepting sign ups at all.
join-lemmy.org shows a few instances at the top of its join page:
lemmy.fmhy.ml (which is based)
sh.itjust.works which im pretty sure is having a free speech or too much user choice problem atm
lemm.ee, a general instance
sopuli.xyz, which i know nothing about (who is finn???)
i dont see .world until a further scroll down from those. did they change it?
Personally speaking, at the time I made this account it seemed one of the better open, general instances with a home domain that wouldn’t be kinda clunky to tell others about. Folks I’d suggest this to wouldn’t care about the shit just works jokey name, but they’d probably be a little annoyed at the whole sh dot itjust dot works formatting…Which even just saying that aloud kinda sucks.
If it were shit.just.works no big deal, but it’s not, so lemmy.world is easier to write & say by comparison. That all said, even more important to me than the name was whether the admin had any experience running a federated server before for awhile, which lemmy.world’s had via their hosting of mastodon.world, so I opted for this instance. There may have been other general instances at the time with similar experience that I overlooked tbh*, and I may still hop over to another at some point, but so far this one works decently enough to me.
*-I know of some “legacy” lemmy instances that kinda fit this description, like .ca or midwest.social, but I regarded those as more for folks from those areas, and Beehaw is a little too positivity focused for my tastes (I also don’t know that I’m “nice” enough to get along well there).
sh.itjust.works is an unbearable name to read. i read dots in a website link like the end of a sentence (ex lemmy.world would be lemmy {break} dot {break} world.) good instance, despise the name
This is pretty awesome. I’ve tried mastodon when Twitter shit the bed a few months back and it never really launched the way I’d hoped.
Lemmy seems pretty lively. At first I was a bit disillusioned with the fact that it’s not as active as reddit, but I feel the caliber of user that’s come over is better than who we’ve all been dealing with the past 3-5 years over there. I’m happy to be here and there’s palpable excitement
You know I did the same thing made an account for mastodon and never really used it. But since coming over here after leaving reddit and seeing how enjoyable it was I went back to the mastodon app and I have to say now that I’m familiar with lemmy mastodon made more sense to me.
Does Mastodon even have a filter so I can view all tweets from every instance like Lemmy does for posts? Because, if it does, I haven’t found it.
Your client should have All and Local feeds, All being for everything your instance is federated with
I’ll have to give Mastodon another shot. Maybe that’s what I was messing up.
That said, I was always a bigger reddit user than tweeter
I’ve found the same thing. Twitter was great for very specific, topic-based communities with everything else filtered out. The only reason I used it heavily was because of a couple of small, insulated scenes.
My Mastadon instance is just an insufferably banal stream of tweeters who are united in their fear of posting anything interesting enough to be offensive. It’s basically “nice twitter”, which still sucks balls anyway if you don’t have a scene to keep in touch with.
Lemmy is very much “nice reddit” for now and I’m finding it far more enjoyable to use.
Yeah I’m hoping Lemmy doesn’t get big too quickly, quality over quantity
I think a good majority of those of us migrating here from reddit are content creators and/or productive users (engaging in relevant discussion, reporting spam/trolls, downvoting/reporting irrelevant content, etc.).
I think there are most definitely going to be social loafers, lurkers, and harmful users coming over from reddit too. But I firmly believe that the proportion of healthy users greatly outweighs the unhealthy users in this influx of users from reddit.
It’s the trolls, mindless idiots, hateful, anti-intellectual, unproductive and unhealthy community members who are content staying on reddit, and are glad to see us leave.
I think Lemmy being new and unpolished will also help sift out unproductive/unhealthy users. They’ll arrive and see that Lemmy/the fediverse is still in its infancy, and they’ll likely rather just stick with reddit because it’s more convenient.
I think the proportion of unproductive/unhealthy users here will grow as the site grows and becomes more stable and streamlined. But I think we’ve got some time to foster a great site/communities before they come en masse.
It’s nice seeing how much Lemmy is growing. I knew there would be an influx of new users from the 30th, but it’s honestly nice seeing more comments overall and posts getting upvoted.
Yeah, I was expecting a small bump of new people when the 3PAs shut down, but the absolute deluge we’ve been getting is a pleasant surprise. RIF sending its users here has a lot to do with it, I think.
Heck yeah, hello everyone fleeing reddit!
My addiction have new management. A lot more community driven than the last one 😁
I mean, if Reddit blocks 3rd party apps, I ain’t staying. I’ll just come here which appears to basically be a better version of Reddit.
If?
Mate, they’ve already done it.
