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!
The API hasn’t shut down yet. I don’t know wtf they are doing at reddit hq but many of the apps, and nsfw posts, still work completely normally with no changes.
They’re not shutting down the API. They’re letting devs accrue usage and will send them a bill later
Already planning their next disaster.
I thought they weren’t going to shut down the API, they were going to start charging for it. So 3rd party apps that are still going will start getting bills?
They were also going to block all nsfw content but it’s still there.
I actually don’t mind the smaller user base on Lemmy at all.
First work day since shutdown, I survived without Reddit, I’m sure I can continue doing so. Lemmy has plenty of potential yet already “good enough” to take Reddit’s place.
That’s the funniest thing - I’m one of those senile Digg to Reddit people. Digg to Reddit was something I felt and dreaded. Reddit to Lemmy was a relief. There is not as much to click but everything is worth a click.
Beans
But lemmy.world shows me many errors if I open DevTools… Hope this failures get resolved soon. Had to create another account on another instance to use lemmy
That is Good.
It would be better if those users were more dispersed across more similarly moderated instances, but it is for sure a good thing that the threadiverse is expanding
The impressive thing is the active user ratio of over 25%! Good job everyone.
Number of the bean.
I’m happy to be here. Thank you.
I’m actually surprised its not more some instances grew by multiples right?
Cool now join a server that’s not crowded. Hit “all.”Enjoy Lemmy with all the same content with zero lag.
Except for comment lag.
Haven’t had issues from where I am.
A post I made on lemmy.world has an order of magnitude more upvotes when viewed from Lemmy.world compared to when viewed from another instance. Beyond annoying
I think there’s a short delay. But still that would be on the server hosting the post being overloaded. I’m not 100% familiar with how the protocols work. But when I look at top day from sh.itjust.works vs from Lemmy.world the numbers are the same in my feed. So It must not be a major difference in most posts.
Could also be because of an update not being rolled out to one of the servers. Just a guess.
You may not notice federation lag, where comments don’t appear in your instance for some time in comparison to their native or a more populous instance.
Afaik the only way to tell is to pull up the same thread from different origin instances and compare.
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.
Seems like they aren’t handling the load well.
If you think this is bad, you should have seen Reddit when the Digg migration happened.
Tell me about this “Digg.” It sounds so familiar, but I don’t think I actually ever used anything called Digg.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
14k users per week, 22k users per month, makes it look like a bunch of people tried it and then didn’t come back.
Some of them probably moved to a different instance, but yeah
I’m not sure how accurate that part of the stat page is, given we have very little usage data compiled into a short sample size, during a time of high growth.
Most people don’t know that the lemmy.world instance was only started on June 1 or June 2 this year, and is only a little more than a month old. A month of crazy growth to become the most popular Lemmy instance that fast, with more growth likely to come.
They shut the API off on Thursday/Friday, and it’s a four day holiday weekend. Not sure how final any numbers could be right now.
…And my axe
66.6%? Looks like even satan has left reddit.
“Eternal torture and suffering is one thing, but I cannot tolerate greedy little pig boys.” - Satan
What happens if lemmy.world or any other instance goes down without notice? Then there’d be a void of communities for a while right, or do other instances keep backups of some sort? Thinking about this now that .world gets tons of attention.
That may be true but I am subscribed to many communities over many instances so I would just post and comment somewhere else. It’s not hard to browse the all feed and see where the action currently is.
You should read up on the Federation concept. No, not the Star Trek one. And no, not the government one either.
Spreading out like the fediverse is designed is good. Redundancy and crossposted content is good.
We’re seeing the biggest instances struggle with the traffic lately, so I’m just engaging more with different communities whenever they’re not accessible.
