Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

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[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Anything in particular happened over there?

[-] dan96kid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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

[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Gotcha. I'm generally aware of what's going on over there but wasn't sure if a particular post or action caused the big surge today.

[-] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Announcement 📣 📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_to_debunk_reddits_claims_and_talk_about/

Maybe this helped?

[-] Grant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What caused me to just delete the app and my account is the post by the Apollo creator today. When you see it all put together, it's really shameful how poorly the community, moderators, and devs are treated. It was a huge post and on popular