• 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.

  • 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.

  • Saintpaul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

      • dan96kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        To make a long story short… Reddit’s doing a DEEPLY UNPOPULAR API change that effectively wipes out 3rd party tools and clients, which sparked site-wide protests. Reddit’s CEO is now having a pretty public meltdown and threatening moderators partaking in said protests. Lemmy popped up in a good number of discussions on Reddit in regards to the situation. Queue the start of a mass-exodus of Reddit users and mods to Lemmy

  • Typeo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • XYZinferno@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Keep in mind too that the expiration date for many of the mainstream third party Reddit apps is June 30

    Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

    • zikk_transport2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Reddit is already turning into shit. Like literall shit, except it’s digital shit, but still shit.

      Feeling horny? Visit r/horny. Oh wait, that’s christian minecraft discussions!

      Wanna learn something new? Visit r/InterestingAsFuck. Oh wait, that’s interesting porn positions!

      Wanna see what is going in gaming community? Just visit r/steam! Oh wait, it’s choo choo shitwreck powered by steam engines!

      No wonder why people are looking for Reddit alternative, and Lemmy might be just the right option. :)

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

      I’m here now trying to get ahead of it.

    • ewe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

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

  • Aax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…

  • Pizzareca@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.

    • bl4ckblooc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I have signed up to so many communities on here with the hope that once Lemmy gets bigger, I can leave the ones I don’t actually want to be involved in. I also posted my first-ever meme. Let’s contribute to make this a reddit alternative!

  • Chris@lemmy.world
    English
    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.

  • 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

  • markr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.