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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] Sonemonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

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[–] dgilluly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.

I don't even use third party apps. It's just that I can't give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.

[–] Salvo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I am the opposite. I had a Reddit login for years but never used it. When I found out about Apollo, I gave it another go and it quickly became my Number 1 Internet time sink.

With Apollo no longer functional, Reddit (for me) is no longer functional.

The fuckery was just the icing on the cake to force me to delete my account.

[–] phonecase@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same here, I'm a software dev for a living and it resonated differently/pissed me off hearing about the API pricing changes and what happened with Apollo's developer

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

That's a good reason to jump ship. And wow, I think you missed out on not using the 3rd party apps, but they're coming to lemmy soon.

[–] Bisque@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Seems like reddit just fresher. Not clogged up with all the bullshit. Also I feel like I'm on the ground level of a reddit competitor that seems to be protected from corporate bullshit.

[–] potato_pizzareca@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] ignism@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] n8vos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ljdawson said he was making sync for Lemmy so I signed up

[–] Lolalixir@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The jump is caused by Spez being a twat.

[–] rakara@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm attempting to move on from Reddit. Heard good things about Lemmy. I'm checking things out.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

In my opinion, the output of the disastrous Zoom meeting with the moderators & community of /r/Blind .

Reddit leadership made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for their users. They essentially refused to answer essential questions for the disabled Reddit community.

I guess Spez thinks nobody will care as long as they get their fill of GIFs and pics? I have no idea. I'm not closing out my account, but whatever reddit intended to sell to me, I'm not buying it.

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[–] Saintpaul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Upvotes_Kills_Birds@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

totally agree. I've been trying to engage more myself to encourage others to do the same

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

spez's continued jackassery. I made the switch about 24h ago.

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[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there's lots of instances to spread the burden.

[–] cmrn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got sick of Reddit, looked for alternatives, found sub.rehab, found Lemmy was common… here I am.

[–] ShadedCosmos@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use RIF exclusively on mobile. I never use reddit from my computer. The interface isn't all that different from RIF when on mobile, so I'm giving it a shot. Lots of the other places listed as "reddit alternatives" were mostly just discussion and not community focused and link sharing sites. I like it so far. (my first post!)

[–] Poggers@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Stopped using reddit after 12 years when the blackout began, and kept up with the developments through the tech news. Removing the mods and screwing around with things just because they're mad about a protest was the last straw, so now here I am!

[–] ObligatoryOption@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's snowballing. A few friends tell a few friends, and so on, and so on, and so on...

[–] KuroJ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/u/spez brought us here.

Thanks spez!

[–] ewe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] necrxfagivs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hopefully is not an army of bots, but for me that's the most plausible explanation.

[–] bodiesofeverest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's most-definitely spez removing entire moderator teams of popular subreddits.

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[–] Jakeg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve avoided Reddit since Sunday and am missing being able to see what’s going on without having to visit tech blogs/news sites/etc…

Decided might as well make the next jump and propel the death of Dig, I mean reddit

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[–] rocnile@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just here so i don't get fined. created an account because the developer for my reddit app is working on One for lemmy. So figured I'd give this a try

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rocnile@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Someone made a great site for people coming from Reddit to find communitie they were a part of. https://sub.rehab/

[–] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most likely it's because of Reddi's bots, targeting all the other good options and making content pro-staying

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What do you mean?

[–] TRBoom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This instance gives a clue maybe?

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.wiuf.net

It looks like it's only a day old and it has 11k users. There isn't any content on it either. There are a few instances like that, you can see them here: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They all have low MAU, 10k or so users, and low Status Count.

Quite a few are showing about 10k new users in the past day or so. Probably they're small instances without bot protection or instances made to support bots.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Can this be reported to those tech savvy enough to know what to do? Fantastic find. These instances might well be preparing bots for attack.

[–] axce@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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