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Lemmy.world has grown by about 66.6% since reddit's API shutdown

Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.

Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it’s great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.

So, welcome reddit expats!

taanegl ,

Number of the bean.

vladmech ,

I used Redact to edit out all my Reddit posts and deleted my accounts when Apollo died. Bring on the distributed communities! (Also this is weird and new and I’m not 100% sure what I’m doing, but it’s exciting!)

capital ,

Hail Satan.

psychothumbs , (edited )

Lemmy world domination continues - I’ve noticed in the last few days the world communities on each topic have all surged into first place in subscriber numbers.

Tacobenderyay ,

Lfg!!! Proud to be apart of this new chapter

mycoxadril ,

So what’s happening over at Reddit? I assume all is still well over there. But after ten plus years, I actually haven’t been over there since Apollo died because I’ve just been busy and scrolling here before bed instead of the old Reddit browser.

I assume it’s business as usual and it didn’t implode, but honestly it’s been like three days since I’ve been there and that’s probably one of my longer streaks without casually browsing at some point in the day.

Xylight ,
@Xylight@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, basically nothing has changed. However, after switching to Lemmy I’ve noticed the quality of the content is higher

mycoxadril ,

I use wefwef and for me the scrolling is similar to Apollo and scratches the itch. I am struggling, though, with subscribing to communities and curating my feed. But also remembering my Reddit feed took years to curate so trying to be patient. I just find more hoops to jump through here to get to the content I want to view (discounting the bugginess of things because I understand it’s new and they’re sorting it out still).

Bummer there wasn’t a bigger visible hit to Reddit for their shenanigans, but I am glad that more content creators have migrated and more interesting things are also appearing in the feed I have been working on here. It is very green and clunky, but also feels fresh!

Xylight ,
@Xylight@lemmy.world avatar

I mostly visited r/All so the “All” feed works for me

veerappan ,

This feels like Reddit from 2010. Not the interface, but like the feel of discovering a new link aggregator.

cyberpunk007 ,

Well I tried lemmy a number of years ago and it was a ghost town. I hardly found anything I wanted to read and Reddit had it all. Now I’m back and I’ve noticed a lot more content. Others might notice too when they come to check it out. From this, I suspect we will see growth.

cheeseblintzes ,
@cheeseblintzes@lemmy.world avatar

I have just missed discourse with real humans.

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

The bean posts are definitely more thoughtful here.

Rengoku ,

Where can I find a lemmy community 'list like Reddit have please?

iamroot ,

browse.feddit.de
lemmyverse.net/communities

thesanewriter ,
@thesanewriter@vlemmy.net avatar

I can’t recommend lemmyverse enough, it has done a great job organizing every Lemmy community possible into one place.

ioNabio , (edited )

Have a look at !newcommunities . Sort by top if needed and especially this post

Edit: and I also learned about !wowthislemmyexists

I used to sub to new subreddit via such subreddits, or in comments of posts that showed me through a discussion. Or sidebar of subreddit on related ones.

Cleetus ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1ec223d2-faa5-4113-bfb6-107b850ad115.png

rockyrikoko ,

…And my axe

Haha ,

What are the most active communities here?

Syrc ,

You can see here for the most active communities on this instance, while here is the list including federated ones.

thesanewriter ,
@thesanewriter@vlemmy.net avatar

Indeed. It makes sense it was laggy during the upscaling, but it’s stabilized now and it’s great to see how well Lemmy has grown. The other thing I’ve notes is development is currently proceeding at a frenzied pace, it feels like every few days a new feature is added, either in the main service or in the multitude of apps being developed.

solarzones ,
@solarzones@programming.dev avatar

That’s great but 66.6%? Time to conspire!

rockyrikoko ,

Praise be to the dark lord!

NoRezervationz ,
@NoRezervationz@lemmy.website avatar

That’s great news! Lemmy is a great, if but a little buggy, replacement for Reddit. I’m sure the bugs will be ironed out in due time. I’m enjoying the federated community. The more the merrier!

Countmacula ,
@Countmacula@kbin.social avatar

Seems like they aren’t handling the load well.

ijeff ,
@ijeff@lemdro.id avatar

There’s an inevitable adaptation and learning period for everyone, including smaller instances, but I think we should really be emphasizing the decentralization aspects of the Fediverse. Ruud and others are doing all they can to keep up, but everyone trying to consolidate onto lemmy.world isn’t great for anyone and only leads to even greater cost and technical pressures.

Kibo ,

Someone suggested that we should use this to find instances nearer to us. I did that and it has been running a lot smoother on my end apart from the occasional loading issues on subs in Lemmy.world.

There’s definitely some getting used to for new immigrants like us from Reddit. The nature of Fediverse forces us to give up on the concept of “karma” and be ready to hop from one instance to another at any given time. The good thing is we’ll be seeing much fewer karma-farming bots, which I assume would be an even much bigger issue on Reddit now that so many of the genuine users have left. Shitty mods, rampant bots, subs going dark/NSFW. What a shitshow.

thesanewriter ,
@thesanewriter@vlemmy.net avatar

Honestly, one of the largest problems with the current instance system is the lack of an ability to either export an account or link accounts between several instances. Once those types of features are added, I think Lemmy will be a lot more tolerable to new users.

Vorticity ,

If you think this is bad, you should have seen Reddit when the Digg migration happened.

DrSanta ,

Tell me about this “Digg.” It sounds so familiar, but I don’t think I actually ever used anything called Digg.

smoll_pp_operator ,

Digg.com was a link aggregate site that predated Reddit, and was more attractive to users based solely upon its relatively sleek UI.

After some years of success, Digg made several changes: obfuscation up votes and removing down votes, and a new UI to match the reduced features. As a result the majority of the Digg user base and content creator sphere migrated to Reddit.

This resultant swell in Reddits userbase led to app creators brisging the gaps between reddits relatively brutalistic UI and the experience sought by laymen (i.e. non programmers crowd). As you have seen the decision to alienate third party applications has led to a new backlash against Reddit.

DrSanta ,

A lot of this sounds familiar.

I just wonder of this is actually going to have a similar effect. Controversial decision but I’m pretty used to seeing companies get away with shitty choices.

Vorticity ,

IMO, what reddit has done is much worse than what digg did but their user base is also significantly larger than digg’s was. I hope that reddit will see a hit but I expect they will survive this.

I do wonder how many content creators and moderators they are losing though. It she’s likely that content creators and moderators were probably more reliant on third party apps than general users.

DrSanta ,

Potentially. Though Reddit claims that the vast majority (like 90+%) used the official app. Of course, if such was true then you’d expect they wouldn’t pull the rug out from under everyone.

I can believe a majority used the official up. Maybe even a supermajority. 80% maybe.

But throwing a fit over 1-10% of your user base and doubling down when that low percentage doesn’t agree? I dunno.

It’s a big enough number that made them want to kill the third-party apps but it’s small enough that they felt they could survive the backlash.

Vorticity ,

I guess time will tell. Personally, I wouldn’t continue moderating without third party apps given the lack of tools. I hadn’t moderated anything in a while but the third party tools were always so much better when I did moderate things.

DrSanta ,

I can’t speak much on modding. I was a mod of a sub that only lasted a day or two and was shutdown. So my experience was very limited

Gee2oo40 ,

I’m happy to be here. Thank you.

Onlycats ,
@Onlycats@lemmy.world avatar

I was using Bacon Reader for Android for the last 10 years. For me it was the only way of using Reddit. I’m now checking Lemmy. I hope we can build a vibrant community here. I’m not coming back to Reddit.

SomeRandomWords ,

Also a fellow ex-Bacon Reader user, same deal. So far I’m using Connect for Lemmy to try to get a similar feel, what app are you using?

CognizantPotato ,

Jerboa is the closest I have tried to the Bacon Reader experience.

Onlycats ,
@Onlycats@lemmy.world avatar

I’m using Jerboa. Its good and its very similar to Bacon Reader. I’m just missing the bacon reader setting “hide read posts” and the hability to swipe to navigate and read posts.

kuro_neko ,
@kuro_neko@lemmy.ca avatar

Connect has both ;)

cie6868 ,

Liftup, which is somewhat close to BaconReader too. Couldn’t use Jerboa due to it not connecting to lemmy.world at the time I joined.

Tried wefwef too and it’s great, but the iOS-adjacent UX is not right for me.

RandomUserName ,

Similar for me but, Apollo. Reddit was only tolerable because of Apollo, and now that it’s gone, I am too. wefwef is quite close to it though. Im enjoying it so far.

SQL_InjectMe ,

Wefwef is amazing, how can someone make it so quickly while the reddit app sucks?

thesanewriter ,
@thesanewriter@vlemmy.net avatar

Wefwef is a labor of the love and passion of its creator. I’m guessing the Reddit app devs are burned out and constantly getting requests like “How can we integrate Blockchain into the app?” and “Is it possible to add ads to the comment section?”

popemichael ,
@popemichael@lemmy.world avatar

RiF being killed was the last straw for me and Reddit.

They just don’t care so long as they are making money. I was doxxed twice last year thanks to two different user on a fandom I moderated. They didn’t care that I was openly DOXed, pretty much them saying that it wasn’t their problem.

They just don’t care about people, just how much trouble they will get in and how much money is to be made.

So this whole “only money matters” ideal is a symptom of a larger issue that is going to get worse.

tool ,
@tool@r.rosettast0ned.com avatar

FYI, you can patch RiF with Revanced to use your own OAuth token. I did it, and it works, but I’m not actually using it anymore/haven’t been to reddit for a while.

I just did it as more of a “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” thing than anything else.

popemichael ,
@popemichael@lemmy.world avatar

I deleted RiF and removed all shorcuts and icons that lead to reddit

I’m going with a mixture of cold turkey and “out of sight, out of mind”

Thankfully lemmy helps.

smoll_pp_operator ,

Same. Used AlienBlue for a short while until I got an Android phone. Then moved to Bacon Reader for the following decade.

Reddit is effectively dead to me. Without BR there is simply no way for me to interact with the site, plus I go out of my way to avoid reddit.com in search results.

Maybe it doesn’t matter, but I like to think it does for their traffic statistics.

venusenvy47 ,

That’s the app I used exclusively. Have you found a Lemmy app that is similar? I’ve tried Jerboa, Connect and Liftoff, but I’m still looking for something comparable to BaconReader.

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