But are we profitable?
No. But we are great.
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Neither is Reddit
hopefully this marks the end of overinflated valuations for companies that own websites with a lot of users.
We have a couple more to go I guess. However any “disturbance” like that brings more people to the fediverse. And the stronger we get the better. The rest can stay on Twitter and Reddit. We need critical mass of good active users and we are set. I think Mastodon has done that. It feels like a nice large community. Lots of chatter and people are still steadily coming over. We don’t need to add more people to make it great. I think we have reached level of great that just attracts people now.
Wonderful news. It was honestly time for us to start moving away from Reddit anyway. This just gives us an excuse.
For me it was the obvious bots and repost karma farming. It was all starting to feel stale except for some of the more niche subreddits I was on.
Holy crap, yeah. The amount of repost bots I've been seeing lately has been insane. Also noticed a massive increase in porn bots in the comments, almost all exactly the same kind of thing
"Hey baby check me out https://linktr.ee/obviouspornscam"
Yep, great motivator for moving to Lemmy.
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Jumping ship is the easy part. Now we have to keep this up. Let's make sure this isn't just something that'll disappear in a month or two. Make Fediverse more active than before permanently.
I'm more of a lurker myself but that was due to Redditor's attitude towards me aha. I would say my opinion and I would get downvoted to oblivion as well as a bunch of mean replies. And DMs I have never checked lmao. Over here though, it looks a fucklot more friendly and that makes me want to engage more!
Reddit and Twitter are incredibly hostile places.
I have a friend who privated her Twitter account a few years back. She made the mistake of replying to a tweet to state that non-white people can be racist too, and ended up getting doxxed and harassed.
Also, I remember the time when I kept getting DMs on my Reddit account stating things like "just reminding you that you're a c***"
I've not been in a situation this bad before but sometimes I do find it funny to get a random DM without any context say "You're a cunt". I would just rofl and go on with life😂 Like what does one achieve woth saying something that doesn't even land in my brain lmao
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It's certainly more about discussion here. I've made mistakes already and no one has criticized me (yet). Just someone responding about why my opinion/statement was wrong in their opinion.
If I did that on reddit I'd probably never check my inbox again lmao. Not saying all reddit subs are like that, but a lot are.
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This is my first time stepping into the fediverse, actually. Time will tell, I am cautiously optimistic. May try Matrix at some point too, don’t know quite yet.
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I have been wanting to switch to Lemmy for a long time, it is my last non-FOSS social media. But I never imagined Lemmy will be popular because reddit is thriving, and I cannot see reason for people to leave.
So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you spez form the bottom of my heart. And I hope you keep down the path you are on and turn reddit into a Twitter dumpster fire.
FOR THE FEDIVERSE!
Thanks spez!
-- The Mlem Team
I vote we all adopt "Don't be a Spez" as phrase of saying "Don't fuck a good thing up for your own greed" to somebody.
But yeah, thanks Spez! I had wanted to leave Reddit for a while now as spam started overflowing subs, and spam bot accounts just kept going with reddit doing nothing to stop them. I still stayed out of laziness, I suppose, but this last drop made the bucket overflow. Thanks Spez!
“Don’t be a Spez” I feel like Elon already owns that phrase.
Well that took all of 5 minutes to figure out how this federated stuff works. Thanks spez, cya later reddit.
Looking forward to the next iteration of Reddit. This reminds me of when I first joined during the Digg exodus
What caused the Digg exodus?
Digg made changes to their site that pissed off a lot of users, so they went to Reddit. And then Reddit did the same, so now here we all are on Lemmy.
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-digg-rivalry-heats_n_699225
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_v4
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100831122556/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/digg_user_rebellion_reddit_on_front_page.php
- http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/30/digg-users-lash-out-at-new-format-join-forces-with-reddit/
Thanks
See? Spez isn't all bad. His charisma-less incompetence is good for something!
june 30 is going to be the big tsunami that overwhelms us all
I was part of the Digg exodus. I'm now a r/efugee but glad to be here. I like how decentralized everything is.
Just wait until Monday / Tuesday. Lemmy is about to get hugged to death.
It truly is amazing to see.
goooooooood 😈
Uh... that is starting to look exponential...
There was a picture of one instance's user count that was mostly a flat line until recently, now it looks like a right angle 😂. Can't remember if it was Beehaw or a different one though
Probably beehaw or lemmy.world, although a lot of instances are getting new users.
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Thanks spez for making lemmy more popular
I like GitHub stats for jerboa and lemmy-ui.
Currently using Jeroba. Nicer experience overall than using lemmy in a mobile web browser, but still a bit rough around the edges, and I hope they fix the leggy scrolling.
Hopefully this will help the rest of the fediverse grow as well
Where are the stats from?
Awesome, thanks! It is great to see the strady increase in users and servers. I am hoping that as all the content creators choose a place to put their stuff, and the winning communities start to become established, that Activity Pub becomes the way.
Then our favourite reddit apps migrate to the Lemmy API :D
Time to blow that chart up.
long live lemmy 💙
7 year 10 month long on Reddit and only ever used Apollo and previously Alien Blue until Spez decided to kill the joy out of both. Never posted much on reddit either. Happy to be here with everyone and contribute to Lemmy!
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