I hadn’t even heard of Lemmy until a few days ago. Maybe it’ll ride the momentum. End of the month there will probably be another influx, considering the reddit changes.
Let’s hope so! Some of the communities are a bit empty still. Hopefully it’ll change. :)
I heard of Tildes first. Tried it, didn’t get it, didn’t like the UI and just gave up on it. Saw someone mention Lemmy in a Reddit thread about the blackouts. Googled it, got confused, went to join, got really confused, made accounts on 3 different instances due to aforementioned confusion, started scrolling, haven’t stopped in over a week. I like it here
I was turned off of Tildes because of the fact that (at least when I tried it) they hadn’t implemented automated password changing, you had to message an actual person.
I think that is beautiful, in its own unique way.
Long live Lemmy!
I remember the days when everybody flocked to Voat in the midst of the Ellen Pao revolt, and then the site crumpled under its own freaking weight. It’s refreshing by comparison to see 360k users flock to Lemmy when the platform struggled to even break over a thousand just three weeks ago.
Spez really screwed the pooch on this one.
I think we’ll see another spike when the third-party apps are actually shut down.
Be prepared to answer so many questions from newcomers.
Today’s noobs are tomorrow’s participants and next months’ experts. Take it as a chance to be awesome to one another.
Speaking as a noob trying to see if I can respond from another server… Hi!
I spun up an instance for a friend group, to test it out, and while I think no one has a real clue what’s going on, it’s nice to have something new and positive. And since I or a friend control the server, no worries on the perverse incentives of the internet giants.
So, yeah, hopefully we can learn, and hopefully the ecosystem can grow.
A general how-to for lemmy pinned to the top would do wonders.
I already deleted my 3P app and was looking for an alternative. I wanted to be the one that ripped that band-aid off so it could scab up early. So far I’m liking these Lemmy servers. They are my polysporin :p
That’s why I’m here, the third party app I use is about to be shut down.
I think we’ll see another spike when the third-party apps are actually shut down.
It might turn into the Lemmy version of Eternal September.
Is Boost shutting down?
Definitely, I remember mayayo (Boost’s dev) commenting that the update he pushed out recently was the last dance or something.
Can’t imagine how Boost would survive when many more successful third-party apps are going under.
I’m quite impressed how quickly the site is stabilizing in spite of continuing to grow so rapidly. I’d say it’s 10 times more navigable than when I first signed up, and I’ve only doubled my competency at interfacing with it.
IIRC, the Lemmy.world administrators had a big post that basically said: “Woops, we were still in debug-mode when we launched”.
When they changed the settings to production-mode sometime this weekend (thereby generating far fewer logs on the server’s backend), the response speed of the website went into high-speed.
It wasn’t just logs. Turning debug off let a lot of the federation functions work in the background instead of causing a long pause every time someone posted, voted, etc.
If true that’s hilarious.
Was wondering why the site had been performing unusually well today. Part of me was worried that everybody got fed up of the lag, abandoned ship and went back to Reddit.
Calm down folks, these are bot signups: https://lemm.ee/post/177673
The active user-count increased by ~10% over the last 2d while registered user count increased 400%. The registered user growth is absolutely not “real”. Now… 10% over 2d is still massive growth… Lemmy IS growing. But it’s not doubling every 24h.
Also nobody should want that anyway lmao
Happy to be here posting with you folks. I have a feeling it’s going to be quite the ride in the near future.
Okay but seriously 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖
I love Lemmy, but as others have already said, the vast majority of these signups are likely bots. Pretty spooky.
why would you think they’re all bots?
There was supposedly a post the other day about a bug that would let people creat a ton of accounts using a bot. My understanding is that pretty much the next day the amount of new users increased immensely, so the timing of it so seems a little suspect
The number of users increased immensely the next day because Hexbear.net migrated to upstream Lemmy and their users/stats started being tracked. This newest wave of users does seem to me like bots, specially because they are signing up to instances where little to no activity is happening, but who knows.
Bots and multi-accounts. I had one reddit account with no alts. Here I have like 6 accounts because of all the federated / non federated bs.
I can’t imagine being that unlucky with your instances, maybe you’re running into bugs or the less intuitive parts of Lemmy (like how links to posts and communities don’t work how you’d expect them to)
It was mostly bugs/stability issues for me.
I created a lemmy account, but I’ve never actually been able to log into it. I even tried creating another account on lemmy, no dice.
Created a kbin account, but then found out that they were defederated temporarily due to the influx, and they had some really annoying cloudflare stuff on
Created a fedia account, but posts from other instances were delayed by like 6-8 hours, and fedia itself was (and still is) a relatively small instance.
Kbin has since refederated so it’s working the best for me.
Couldn’t figure out a good way to get mastadon to mesh with the ui of other instances so I created a mastadon account. Then I realized I’d gone down a rabbit hole of porn so my mastadon feed was taken over by nsfw stuff, so I made a new non-horny mastadon account.
That’s seven. If beehaw ever defederates from kbin, I might make an eighth so I can participate there (unless fedia starts becoming better at updating).
3 of them were defederated by beehaw but I also have a beehaw account and then 2 others just in case… But I am sure I’m not the only one like this. So the total lemmy numbers are probably inflated… not that reddit numbers aren’t also inflated.
Im a newbie, why do you have so many accounts? Isn’t it bothersome to switch between them for whatever you are using them for?
To each their own I guess. It’s not bothersome for me to switch accounts as I normally browse each lemmy locally to make sure I’m seeing as many of the comments as possible. I never really subscribed to the “subscribe/follow” feature of reddit. I liked my front page and all my niche communities separate so when I want to read about xxx I go to xxx subreddit and read all the top posts then move to my next subreddit. To many things fall through the cracks of the front page IMO. But to each their own, again. There is no reason to run lemmy like I do vs one account if it is working for you as is.
I have a similar thing going. Have 3 accounts, one on lemmy.world, one on kbin.social, and one on beehaw.org.
Yeah, same here. I created one on lemmy.one… realized lemmy.world is open and has more traffic right now, so I created a new one here. I also have a kbin user for similar reasons. But still, the content flow does seem to be slowly increasing.
It’s all bots…(probably)
Yes it is. The top 20 fastest growing instances on https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse could be suffering from bot signup. Bit of a bummer.
10,000 users and only 7 posts and a dozen comments: https://lemmy.podycust.co.uk/communities
Just signed up myself, it does feel like with guidance from Reddit migration threads it’s easy enough to sign up, but navigation still feels a little confusing, so maybe some signing up but just lurking or not bothering to continue
I also signed up yesterday. This is my very first comment/post. This is all a bit new and ngl - slightly intimidating. I’ll go back to lurking and trying to get a better feel for the whole thing before I participate more.
Edit: To be fair, I wasn’t all that participatory on that OTHER site either. After 12 years, I walked away with (4,528·14,039) on my profile. So don’t expect much lol.
It’s all good, as long as we have actual people here (I was pretty much a hard lurker on reddit as well lol)
I actually signed up for an account here and am commenting and posted once vs being a massive lurker on Reddit, I’m disabled and bed bound and spend hours daily online. Didn’t feel like Reddit really needed me to chip in and since it hurts to type I generally just lurked there.
Hopefully they develop a way for you to post by voice to Lemmy. It’s great to have you on board!
Awww thanks, I’ve tried dictation but it is so frustrating, it doesn’t help I tend to use a wider vocabulary… Plus as a consumer I much, much prefer reading to listening. It’s why I enjoyed old.reddit, clean text.
Easier to suck it up and type sometimes. Or be more patient with dictation.
I’ve been using reddit since before it supported the ability to leave comments, and I haven’t been back since the 12th, except to see if/where my most-visited subs are migrating and to watch the occasional trainwreck caused by reddit admins stepping on their own dicks.
So far Lemmy/Kbin/etc has been scratching the itch with the bonus of having a better community. I think you’ll be fine here.
Not that sure. Maybe a big chunk of it are, but there is a lot of people like me coming from reddit that signed yesterday, after doing some research and watching how things were here and on kbin.
Regarding the bots issues, new signups at lemmy.world were closed yesterday for several hours because of attempts to create spammy accounts. So maybe a mix of real accounts and spammy ones.
I think it’s just bots. Look at this instance: https://picify.podycust.co.uk/ 7k users, no interactions
Yeah, I’m trying to track where these new accounts are being created, because they’re not at top lemmy instances like lemmy.world or beehaw.org, which have validation measures at signup.
I believe most accounts created in the last 48 hours are bot accounts. Here is the list of top 20 fastest growing instances. Looks like 15 out of 20 were created in the last few days and has almost no active users.
@2014MU69 @MicroWave
Lemmy’s first big bot campaign, yay.Bots only target successful platforms and mastodon has survived many bot campaigns, so I’m not too worried by this. But let’s give a hug to our admins. When all those accounts start spamming, they’ll need to do a lot of mitigation. Especially if the bots come from many different domains. (and also because lemmy moderation tools are not great)
@[email protected] - thanks for the info.
@[email protected] - you think we’re about to see many of them defederated?
It’s almost at 500k now.
Which website are you using to track that? I’m still seeing 364k.
About 20k are from probably from hexbear, which migrated from their own distant fork of lemmy to the current version, so now they show up in a lot of trackers. They still haven’t enabled federation yet though.
There’s no way these are not bot accounts. I heard there’s a lot of instances with no sign-up validation that are just being flooded by requests.
I was in your comments last night with the 240k and was floored. The fact it jumped overnight by ANOTHER 120k is mind-blowing.
This. Is. Awesome.
