600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 47827 in two days

We've definitely noticed an increase in signups at lemmy.ca when that news was announced. Not all active users yet, but a lot of signups

IMO fediverse is big enough now to serve as reddit replacement.

Interesting! We've had quite a noticeable spike of sign-ups on lemm.ee as well

I’m now here due to the Reddit news. I’m still browsing both, but I look forward to changing over.

I'm new here coming from Reddit.

Yalls subreddit needs links to here. And a short guide on getting started.

I had to scroll a bunch of comments to find the right name to Google. Then I had to find the most popular app to use. It was a bit of a hassle. Not too bad. But enough to be off-putting to newbies.

every time spez opens his mouth a bunch of people go "hmm let me see if there's something else"

Every time reddit announces something dumb I open Lemmy again. I'd rather be here on principle but the content/users just aren't here yet. Where are the cross post bots?

I like Lemmy's culture better. It isn't perfect, and maybe someday I'll create my own instance. And I can do that.

It is lower from where it was in june (48.472) and the data seem to indicate a negative trajectory , also lemmy donations seem to be the lowest i remember them to be.

So i would not get too confident, the project IMO needs to focus on highly requested killer features. My impression they focusing too much on technical issues that don't seem to be really important in a way that reminds me of the infamous The CADT Model rant of Jamie Zawinski. Do we really need to do a UI rewrite?

Came here after the API bullshit. Takes a little getting used to but it scratches that same itch

Probably due to Reddit fuckary. Between power-hungry, ban-happy mods and Reddit talking about possibly charging for select subs, I definitely bailed and came here.

Two days old today, baaabbby!!

Doing my part tho! I've created 5 communities and have posted over 100 times in the last two days. :)

I got banned from reddit for criticizing the mods of a popular subreddit. Perm-ban on a white vest account for saying the mods are crybabies as they once again complained about having to mod the sub.

Fuck reddit. Fuck spez.

As a new user it's nice seeing so many new users in this thread.

Was wondering what kicked off more signups.

THE YEAR OF THE FEDIVERSE

Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn't lie to ourselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.

I'm doing my part.

Does this include people who don't post or comment much?

Is thus just for one instance or across many instances

Love it!

Not saying it’s the bots… but it’s the bots, isn’t it?

Good to see.

I’m here after the reddit news. Was a little confusing at first.

By the way, what are “subreddits” called on lemmy? I can see they start with “c/“ instead of “r/“.

Noice, I'm surprised more people didn't move over.

Hey congratulations you discovered a statistical anomaly.

Only 50k? I thought it would be much more than that. Didn't know Lemmy was still this small after all these years.

So not DNC bots/bot-like-humans then.

To the moooooon

Reddit implementing paid subs will only just help Lemmy.

Welcome, now post some fresh me mes please. Also more cat photos