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What caused the massive exodus to lemmy.ml? (lemmy.ml)
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What caused users to sign up to specifically lemmy.ml, instead of other servers? I am aware a lot of users signed up after the spez AMA, but even before the AMA the site was overloaded.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Frankly, my first temptation was to ignore the overload warning for fear of missing something by joining another instance.

I think many non tech savvy users won’t understand how Lemmy works and just give up trying to understand how to signup. Plus some instances have a form and users are waitlisted. I think that’s the biggest con of Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It seems that the last point has been solved a few days ago by unlisting Beehaw and Lemmy.ml from suggested instances on join-lemmy.org