It’s obviously not Reddit numbers, but been a lot of posts about how much lemmy/etc have grown in the last week, largely due to the Reddit fallout.
Clearly it’s not going to replace Reddit overnight, but it’s made large strides very suddenly, and can def close that gap over time. Especially for people like me who enjoyed Reddit, but were just browsers, not really power users
People are signing up, but the number of posts and comments is still very low. In my subscription feed, there’s a new post every few hours and maybe 10 comments per hour. I’ve been on local message boards with more activity than that back in the 90s.
It sounds like you want a firehose. Most of us do not, from the comments I’ve seen here.
But, hey … great thing about Lemmy is you get to find a server that suits your needs. If sheer volume is what you’re after, other instances are geared toward that.
@BReel Yes and we need to remember that a few weeks later, the growth rate would seem like its stalled as it would appear the users are leaving en masse however it is to be expected.
It happened with Mastodon a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter.
It’s obviously not Reddit numbers, but been a lot of posts about how much lemmy/etc have grown in the last week, largely due to the Reddit fallout.
Clearly it’s not going to replace Reddit overnight, but it’s made large strides very suddenly, and can def close that gap over time. Especially for people like me who enjoyed Reddit, but were just browsers, not really power users
People are signing up, but the number of posts and comments is still very low. In my subscription feed, there’s a new post every few hours and maybe 10 comments per hour. I’ve been on local message boards with more activity than that back in the 90s.
It sounds like you want a firehose. Most of us do not, from the comments I’ve seen here.
But, hey … great thing about Lemmy is you get to find a server that suits your needs. If sheer volume is what you’re after, other instances are geared toward that.
@BReel Yes and we need to remember that a few weeks later, the growth rate would seem like its stalled as it would appear the users are leaving en masse however it is to be expected.
It happened with Mastodon a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter.