• Sonemonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

    • zeriah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • Grant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      The post by the Apollo creator was the final nail for me. It really laid everything out there pretty well. Let it go be Tumblr somewhere

        • Grant@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Honestly, I’m excited! We are potentially the early comers to get the ball rolling if/when a huge number joins. We are the early people (not to discount those who came before everyone coming from reddit originally) that can help out and grow the communities

      • Sisko Urso@odin.lanofthedead.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        This also was the realization point for me that was the last straw for me. It was a hard struggle not opening Apollo first thing in the morning and all throughout the day for the first time in such a long time. But now I do my best to avoid touching anything on reddit at all.

  • Chris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    No idea myself but we have to remember that not all the users that come try this will stay, so I anticipate once the Reddit nonsense blows over the community will shrink a bit. I am going to stay, but I was “lemmy curious” before the reddit business.

  • ShadedCosmos@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • hungover_pilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been thinking about joining for the last few weeks. The reason I did today was because the developer of my favorite app (sync) announced they would be releasing a lemmy version

  • NinjiGantoris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Wanted to ditch Reddit following all the nonsense around their API changes, but still wanted Reddit-esque news aggregation + discussions from somewhere.

    Googling for alternatives initially led me to Beehaw, but they don’t have the sufficiently granular niche communities I wanted. Searching for communities I wanted to subscribe to led me here, and after refreshing myself on how the fediverse worked I realised I should just create a login here instead. So far, so good!

  • Jake@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’ve avoided Reddit since Sunday and am missing being able to see what’s going on without having to visit tech blogs/news sites/etc…

    Decided might as well make the next jump and propel the death of Dig, I mean reddit

  • ClassyHatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:

    • r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
    • Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.

    Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.

  • Grimlo9ic@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there’s lots of instances to spread the burden.