• Sonemonkey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.world
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      1 year 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.

  • Saintpaul@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!

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        yeah it’s important that people post and comment. lurking is only good once there’s a critical mass of content and engagement to sustain that kind of passive browsing. i hope new users will understand it’s early days on this platform and content has to come from somewhere!

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I learned so much reading other people’s comments, so I’m trying to recreate that on this site.

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      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.

  • ElectricCattleman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Soon we will look back amazed at these growing little numbers. They’re growing quickly but I expect it to grow by one or two more orders of magnitude over the coming months!

  • tallwookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    not that surprising really - many, MANY people are fed up with centralized link aggregation/social media/reddit in general & the fediverse is an excellent option

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    1 year 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.

  • axzxc1236@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There was a post that has code snippet that tells lemmy admins to turn on email verification and captcha.

    And then lemmy.world admin turned off signup for a little while to clean up bot accounts.

    Then account numbers jumped 84k in one day.

    Coincidence? I don’t think so.

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      1 year ago

      I left something out

      The code snippet was 24 lines of Python code that demonstrate how to generate random username and password and call lemmy’s API to register account.

  • Tired8281@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I signed up and then went to bed. I’m assuming the world took that as a sign and followed me. Or perhaps I should cut down on the hard drugs, idk

    • ewe@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Think he has an account here to check it out? I hope he does and sees this: Fuck. You.

  • Typeo@lemmy.world
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    Someone mentioned it on a Reddit post about mods so I’m giving it a go. Stopped Twitter a while back and don’t use Facebook. I like the concept of aggregated content around topics I’m interested in just not by evil companies.

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    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

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    For me, LJ Dawson, the Dev of Sync for Reddit posted that he is making a Lemmy app. I was planning on leaving Reddit at the end of June, so I signed up! I’m extremely happy to be here!

    Edited: messed up posting the Dev’s name. Thanks @DTFpanda@lemmy.world