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

Same! Super excited to see Lemmy, along with the rest of federated social media, getting the attention it deserves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is due to the server status most likely. Lemmy went from around 8000 users to about 75,000 within a few days of Reddit's recent API changes announcement. We've gained another 10,000 users since I checked last night, and the number continues to rise.

Each website in the lemmy fediverse whether it be lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw.com, they are all hosted by the creator of the "instance" (website) not by some large company. So when a huge amount of people join a single instance, the servers for that instance start to slow down and run out of space, they require upgrades to handle the amount of users.

The neat part is, you can use any instance, we can sign up for the ones with less users to help the larger instances that are overloaded, but you'll see all the same communities and therefore content, because they're interconnected. Spreads out the load on the server to multiple servers, all across the world.

 
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Laughing is for boomers. Lol is hip.

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

I swear I saw this meme like....a decade ago

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I made an account when I first heard of Lemmy a few months ago, lost my login details. With the userbase taking such a huge uptick I've decided to get back on it.

I think its great, it'll be better in some ways, worse in other ways, but you just follow the content you wanna see and you're good. Reddit has been due for a mass migration to another platform for a while now, it seems this is just now the tipping point.

Ultimately I think to have redditors switch to a reddit-like platform that isn't controlled by investors is a great idea. And if you dont like the way your instance is run, make your own. You can do that. Can't do that on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like that there can be different fediverse social media, all run independently but connected. I'm new to the topic and learning more about it before I contribute to the github but its a very interesting concept. And the fact that there are other services like PeerTube, makes it seem like more of an open source version of the internet. TLDR: Inter-connectivity