dan96kid

joined 1 year ago
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Lemmy active users grew by an astounding 1600% in June in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] dan96kid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Been "Semi" active on here since the Reddit black out.

Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] dan96kid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] dan96kid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Reddit's meltdown

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Anyone notice Kbin.social sometimes turns into this garbled mess? (i.imgur.com)
 

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Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on Lemmy than Reddit? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] dan96kid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As far as I'm aware, only lemmy.world and some other instance I forgot the name of got defederated by them.

Ten thousand crew mates! in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] dan96kid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I am proud to be part of this new frontier

Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on Lemmy than Reddit? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] dan96kid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I honestly don't know, but if I had to hazard a guess, it would be being able to interact with the Beehaw crowd.

Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on Lemmy than Reddit? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] dan96kid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My Kbin account has been seeing quite a bit of usage today if that counts.