lemmy.world just reached 1000 users.
Please remember that the server was created June 1st! So still might notice some startup issues… but so far so good! Welcome @all!
At this rate we’ll hit 2000 in the next hour…
You can thank reddit CEO lol, he just held the most pathetic AMA I’ve seen, people are even angrier than before :D
p.s. also watch out for next Monday, that’s when the reddit blackout begins
Are you personally paying the server costs? How can we help subsidize?
Ah. There’s a donation link on the front page. Just set up a recurring donation.
I would totally donate for running costs.
At this point you will be probably the biggest instance before the start of the new week 😂
Well let’s see if it doesn’t crash before that. I can scale the hardware but not sure about scaling the software yet…
Since the front end is TS docker it should be easy to scale with kubernetes. I have no idea about the rust backend though.
Yes but there’s no scaling that helps bad queries :-)
Is there somewhere the numbers are tracked?
I use grafana for that. Might make that public someday
This makes me happy for Lemmy, lemmy.world, and of course Grafana is amazing
aiii whoooo!
I can Digg this place
Hello fellow Digg refugee.
My first comment, can’t wait to use Lemmy for the next 15 years.
Fuck /u/spez!
Ah, you must also have been part of the original Digg exodus then?
Yes but I actually liked Kevin, I enjoyed all the side video podcast and skits they did on the side.
Oh yeah the whole gang was great for a while, until it all got fucked.
I still dream of tikibar TV once and awhile
And slashdot before that. Narwhals and whisky and all that. But we don’t talk about usenet. And here we are again.
PS it’s way too easy to accidentally block people on here. And then I had to go to a deeply buried settings page to unblock you again.
Thanks for the unblock. And hey, you learned something new. I’m actually thinking of going back on Usenet.
Why only 15 years?! Why can do better!
Great thing about fediverse, maybe @ruup goes full blown tyrannical, we can go over to another server.
If it’s possible to build perpetual social media, this is how it would look
Over 2k5 already. Stats page says 2.52k
Yup, that’s how fast it goes!
where can I see the stats?
At least on the mobile web page, there is a button near the top of the page that says Sidebar. That will give basic stats like total users on the instance.
Is this where the cool kids are hanging these days? (Just joined as a refugee from that other place)
No just the grumpy old people. 😄
Dammit! Why does everywhere I go turn out to be where the grumpy old people hang out?
Oh…
It’s a mystery!
Just signed up myself! Long time RIF/old.reddit user, hoping to find new (better!) communities. Hello everyone!
Same here! ✊
👋
Hello fellow reddit refugees. Very interested in learning Lemmy and figuring out how contribute to the community.
Good evening! All new to me too! Looking forward to figuring things out for a new start!
Hi from beehaw! Welcome to the fediverse and glad to have all of you join us!
appreciate you providing this service ♥️
That’s great. Is this like the main page or what?
Another Reddit refugee here. I guess after June 30th member numbers will explode?
I hope. So far my friends seem hesitant to leave Reddit.
They don’t have to leave leave. They can just join here and reduce the time they give reddit. Little by little they can just get out of that and into other stuff.
Ah, give it time. Change is scary. And it is easy to be complacent. But ‘luckily’ Reddit will chase them to here.
I think the biggest impediment (besides the learning curve of the new format) is the fact that there are many more users and much more activity on Reddit. It will take time to build enough of a user base on lemmy to convince people to join.
That being said, the subreddit blackout starting June 12th will remove that advantage for Reddit. Even if most of the subreddits only participate for 48 hours, that might be sufficient to drive enough people to lemmy that it becomes perceived as a viable alternative.
Fingers crossed!
Just made a new general Star Wars community! I have no idea how to grow something like that, so any Star Wars fans come on over and help!
You should link it
Wasn’t it at like 200 just 2-3 days ago? That’s a massive increase!
Yeah the server was just installed June 1st. Growth is crazy.
(But I’ve seen crazier with mastodon.world, which had 4000 new users per hour at the peak…
There is still time to see that sort of growth on here, particularly when reddit goes dark next week or shortly after that
Omg nice! Glad to join the ranks!
Yeehaw!
How can we make it 2000?
I’m doing my part. Just joined. The king is dead. Long live the king!
Am I indirectly supporting lemmy devs by being on lemmy.world? I’d rather not be supporting tankies.
Just by using their software. They have no other involvement in this server.
