Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That’s a 40% growth in about 12 hours!

Welcome new reddit expats!

  • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net
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    1 year ago

    Congratulations to the instance for it’s extraordinary growth!

    Welcome everyone who popped over from reddit.

    It’s important to remember you’re on the fediverse, a huge variety of websites running all sorts of software of which lemmy.world is just one server, and Lemmy itself is just one piece of software. There’s many other reddit-alikes like Lemmy, as well as software like Twitter, or Instagram, or Facebook, or YouTube.

    Decentralization is strength. Try to spread out over instances with our users and our communities because instances can and do shut down, shut off federation, or otherwise become reddit.

    This is supported by admins and users, there is no pot of venture capital money keeping instances running or paying admins. Keep that in mind.