I'm a sponsor and I'm not saying this to get thanked or something, I just want to say that I kick in $2 a month. It's not a ton but if I can help keep this place running then I'm happy to toss a coin to my admin 🙂

That's awesome! I don't know what sparked more people to come over though. Would be great if someone can fill me in since I'm so out of the loop.

Also, PSA to all new users on Desktop: Try Alexandrite - a gorgeous front-end for Lemmy https://alexandrite.app/lemm.ee/

Boost for reddit stopped working for reddit. Then I saw they made a boost for Lemmy. Was curious and now I regularly check this platform out.

Why the sudden rise? Actually bonkers

Congratulations - feddit.uk has also see an order of magnitude growth in sign-ups, just from a lower base. This is definitely Rexxit 2.0.

Hi dudies

hi! is there any "default" community or a place where every new user is automatically registered in? or a place where we can see some kind of graph for lemmy users signing up on a daily basis? would be nice for !datahoarder@lemmy.ml datahoarding too haha.

Hello! I joined today

I’ve been wanting to get away from the primary social media platforms because reasons and I’m glad to have found lemm.ee just yesterday! I’m still looking for good alternatives for instagram and youtube but in fairness I haven’t done a lot of research yet. Happy to be apart of something new!

Just joined a few days ago, actually loving it so far. Of course we lack a few of my fav subs here but I know it'll grow.

Hello! Just joined as well :)

I joined yesterday here too! I already hated reddit for the API thing (even though I use infinity) and for the enshittification that was happening, but censoring Luigi was way too much. Happy that I'm not the only one making the switch

Welcome, new neighbours!

While checking out this wacky new space, I'd like to emcourage everyone to check out the Local tab, either at the top of your feed, or in your app menu. That's where yoi'll find posts from "communitues" (Lemmy's "subreddits") that are hosted on lemm.ee!

A lot of communities are on different sites, and are ported (tarriff free!) for your enjoyment, but as with most things, it seems, the most sustainable way forward is to support Local!

One thing that many people new to Lemmy and the wider "fediverse" (because it's not just people on Lemmy-based websites that you'll find posting in the communities here, surprisingly enough) struggle with is that each website on the network has its own "name space", meaning that each community name can be used on each site. So, you can have, say, !pottery@lemmy.ca, !pottery@lemm.ee, and !pottery@lemmy.world. People often fret over "having to follow all of them", and wanting ways to collapse them into a single forum. And for a really niche topic, that might make sense (the thing to do, though, is just pick the one that best serves you and don't worry about what's going on on the other side of the fence). But for bigger topics, this "splintering" is often a godsend, since we can all have real discussions about the topic in smaller spaces. And, of course, !politics is going to just be meanibgfully different on .ca vs .ee vs .world.

If you look to local first, it becomes much easier to stop worrying and love the ~~bomb~~ distributed network.

hi! glad to be a part here!

I was finally looking to take the plunge away from corporate social medias. I was already using BlueSky as my Twitter/X replacement, and one thing stuck with me that they were doing: Federation. That seemed cool, and look! There is a Reddit replacement that does this "federation" thing. Lemm.ee seemed to line up with my general principles (Im a leftist so i don't want any lefty communities or instances defeded) and i like talking with the community at large, so here i am :D

I've also recommended it to all my friends who enjoy BlueSky and are sick of reddit kowtowing to billionaires interests. Sorry/you're welcome for some of the user rush the last couple of days haha