It’s so wonderful that Reddit, by making a decision that benefits no user/mod/sub, and actively harms users/mods/subs, all in the name of corporate greed, gave Lemmy the boost it needed to become a viable alternative to Reddit.

Thank you, Spez. We couldn’t have done this without you.

We definitely felt the ship groaning through all this. Thankfully the Ruud-er skillfully navigated through this, and the software update on top.

Anyways, welcome to Lemmy 17!

First comment for me! 11 years on Reddit, never talked much but lurked a lot. I can’t use their official app so I’m here now and looking forward to see the community grow!

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Honestly, its already a good amount of content. People reply, people upvote, people post interesting articles. Its filling the void for me already.

Honestly, I didn't believe this would happen. I thought all who wanted to migrate have done this already and there would be maybe a couple hundred people joining us today. I'm glad I was wrong. Gives me hope in people of the Internet standing up for what they deserve.

Hello, it's me, a reddit refugee 🎶

This is beautiful to see - I understand Reddit is a company that needs to make a profit, but the way they have treated their users and unpaid staff is shocking (but not unexpected). The fact it also heavily impacts users with additional accessibility requirements is terrible.

Will be fun in a way to watch Reddit try to claw back what has happened.

Give it 12 months it will likely be a wreck along with the current CEO who will probably be given the boot.

I'm old enough to have seen many services go through this: AOL, MSN, MySpace, Fark, Slashdot, Digg, Something Awful, etc. Reddit (and maybe Twitter) are just next in line to realise they are not too big to fail. Hopefully followed by Meta.

As a new user from reddit, wanted to say thanks for welcoming us and working hard to accommodate us!

Welcome newcomers to the fediverse!

spez is unironically the best thing to happen to Lemmy lmao.

You can definitely feel it.

Scotty, divert power to stabilizers.

We gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers.

Best Lemmy instance on the fediverse. I appreciate the work the admins here have done

I am one of those people who migrated as I grew up with an internet that was full of small communities and interesting content uncontrolled by greedy corporations. When I found Reddit back in 2012, I thought it was amazing and going to be a bastion of information for a modern internet. Well, now we know that wasn't the case thanks to chasing the almighty dollar. Hopefully this is the point in time where we can steer this ship around and bring the control back to the users.

Both twitter, and reddit (maybe twitch and youtube) going to shit is perfect timing

I peeked around a bit with Connect (android) for a while, and the things that stood out the most to me was the small size and sluggishness of the whole thing. BUT what also stuck out far more were pins of maintenance because of growth & updates of constant hard work to increase performance, and an interface that (while slightly jank) is infinitely superior to the official reddit app. It's good to see continued growth, especially in such a welcoming community. The problems are providing to be simple growing pains and it's great to be here.

I am a reddit refugee. I am so happy that lemmy exists. Thank you all for standing up these servers and giving us a place to scroll. ☺

Congratulations to the instance for it's extraordinary growth!

Welcome everyone who popped over from reddit.

It's important to remember you're on the fediverse, a huge variety of websites running all sorts of software of which lemmy.world is just one server, and Lemmy itself is just one piece of software. There's many other reddit-alikes like Lemmy, as well as software like Twitter, or Instagram, or Facebook, or YouTube.

Decentralization is strength. Try to spread out over instances with our users and our communities because instances can and do shut down, shut off federation, or otherwise become reddit.

This is supported by admins and users, there is no pot of venture capital money keeping instances running or paying admins. Keep that in mind.

Welcome to all you new folks! Water is great!

Glad to be here!

It's astounding, seeing how fast new communities are being founded and populated. I'm not much of a "community starter" type, but I'm quite excited to find a new home for the shitpost-tier OC I make. I'm also sincerely fascinated to see how all these new places coexist/cross-pollinate.

It's so great to see. Just proves what everyone was saying all along. Communities are built by the people that participate in them, and not the tools. Get rid of those tools and we'll find other ones.

Exciting to see it growing!

Just made the jump - this is my first comment on Lemmy. Here's to a solid alternative!

I know its only one data point, but I just logged on to see how many people were online in a sub i used to frequent and it was down 30-50%, the lowest numbers i've seen all year.

Long time reddit lurker here, trying out a few alternatives at the moment but quite liking Lemmy. Glad to see growth in all of them and super excited for the boost for Lemmy app coming out!

Used to be a long time Reddit lurker, but I feel as if this migration for me is giving me the chance to start afresh, and be a bigger part of this new community!

Immigrant from Reddit is Fun here.

I found the comment that mentioned Summit is quite close to RIF helpful, so here I am!

We're counting today as the first day?

*Happy Canada Day.

Weirdly it's a similar feeling to moving to a way nicer house!

Hello all you fine Reddit refugees.

So glad I accidentally signed up on the best server. I don’t regret my decision. Now that I have WefWef, I’m sold. Love it here. Love the server. Love the community and subscribed to multiple communities in the fediverse too. Learning a lot!