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3 days until reddit's 3rd party app shutdown, Lemmy users drive 985% surge with 5.7 million daily comments this month (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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From 528k daily comments on June 1, 2023 to 5.7 million daily comments on June 27, 2023.

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30

Speaking of 3rd party apps, here's a list of all lemmy apps currently in development: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

For iOS, I'm testing Liftoff, Memmy, and Thunder. For Android, I'm testing Jerboa. What's everyone's favorite app so far?

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[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

It's really nice to see genuinely thoughtful comments on lemmy. It's definitely a refreshing change from the endless streams of tired, overused jokes that dominate that other site.

[-] Hank@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This

edit: do we really have to copy the '/s' for sarcasm?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Came here to say this.

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[-] ClassyHatter@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dawn of the first day. 72 hours remains.

EDIT: Didn’t expect this comment to get this many upvotes. Here’s a song for all you Majora’s Mask fans to enjoy at Time’s End, by the magnificently talented Theophany.

[-] danhasnolife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's just sad. Like when you separate out the vitriol for spez, the whole situation just sucks. Reddit was my site for over a decade, and I know there are tens of thousands in the same situation as me. I thought I was insulated from this bullshit within Reddit, but clearly I was naive.

[-] awderon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I was also on reddit for more than 10 years, but in that time I have posted less there, than in a few days here.

Change keeps your brain young

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

[-] DocWurzel@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I'm done with Reddit. I can't support their behaviour so I'm moving on. I'm currently using Jerboa, and testing Liftoff and Thunder. All three are good, but Liftoff is my preference so far, just waiting for a few issues to be sorted which is happening over time. I'm interested to see what Sync does for Lemmy, as that was my go to Reddit app.

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[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We could only hope for a positive grow cycle: more people > more content > more people

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Also more developers

[-] cazyius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve chosen to go 100% cut off from Reddit but was a daily Apollo user. I averaged around a couple of hours of use each day with Apollo. Since I left Reddit a couple of weeks ago I tried only using the browser version which has been pretty hard. But now that I found Memmy I’m super happy. A lot of the interactions are similar to Apollo and I feel I can interact a lot better with the fediverse using the app.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Narwhal user and I cut the cord on the day the protests started. I just wanted to pull the band-aid off and move on. I was holding out hope that Reddit would reverse course, but it was pretty clear from their actions since then that that’s not happening. 6/30 was the original date I gave myself to delete posts/comments/accounts, so I’m scorched earth this Friday.

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[-] 15liam20@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There seems to be a big difference between browsing /all this morning and from when I first made an account. People seem to be motivated to add content which is making Lemmy punch above its weight at the moment. The Shit per User (SPU) index is pretty high at the moment.

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

Lol, with 19 days in you are actually one of the lemmy grampas . :)

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

SPU... fuckin' a that's a good one. I'm trying to help push up the average the best I can.

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m using Mlem on iOS right now, seems pretty solid for the most part. I haven’t tried others yet, but now I will! Thanks!

Edit: follow up- wefwef feels super slick, very Apollo like, has local docker hosting option!

[-] StarManta@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’m tag-teaming Mlem and Memmy right now. Mlem is buggier and a little less feature-complete, but it feels nicer to use.

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[-] faltuuser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I still use Infinity for reddit from time to time. But these days I spent most of my online time with Jerboa. I had tried the offcial Reddit app and it's basically unusable on my phone.

[-] Elcapitan786@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This doesn't appear to be correct, it should be labelled total comments, by day, not per day. You can see the total number of comments on https://the-federation.info/platform/73.

The top two instances, lemmy.world and lemmy.ml have a total number of comments of 156331 and 188364.

Per day comments on lemmy.world averages between 6,000 - 10,000.

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[-] aRei@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I was just using Sync for Reddit when I noticed I can no longer load comments and then a pop up came up that said I was being rate limited by reddit. F this, I'll no longer visit that site even.

[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wow you're right. People are reporting the same thing.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For apps, Connect and Summit seem to be the best I've tried. Summit is closest to the app Slide that I used on the website that shall not be named.

Jerboa crashes on older servers so I haven't really been able to use it as Lemmy.world is a 17.X server because of the captcha removal "feature".

[-] higante@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I breifly had that issue, but it seems to be resolved. Reading and posting from lemmy.world

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[-] Cubes@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Really hoping they can get the version incompatibility and stability issues worked out. Most users are going to want to use a mobile app they can just get on the play store/app store and currently Jerboa is still experiencing a lot of crashes and weird glitchiness. I tried Thunder too, but it also crashes randomly, but at least it lets you log into whatever instance you want, unlike Jerboa 0.0.35+

[-] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wow that's crazy! Curious to see what will happen on the 30th.

[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sync will blast an announcement in the reddit version about Sync for Lemmy, so I think that should be among the first wave. Curious to see what happens myself!

[-] Knusbiegel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Memmy is almost feature complete. wefwef.app if you don‘t want to install an app or don‘t have a testflight ticket.

[-] Smack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like it has already started. People are reporting limiting errors in apps.

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

Sync Dev was giving me limit errors today. I reinstalled it and it was working again but I know it's only a matter of time until the end. I won't use the official reddit app or website obviously, so I signed up for lemmy today!