Bring reddit down!!!!

Hello lemm.ee!

I’m one of the 609 new users who joined yesterday 🎉

At first, I didn’t know much about Lemmy, I just found lemm.ee through join-lemmy.org (filtered by "All topics - english - most active") and joined because it was the most popular instance...

Initially, I thought I needed to create an account on every instances I wanted to join to access more content, but after reading a lot of posts (in particular in this community!), I finally understood how federation works.

Now that I know more about Lemmy and lemm.ee itself, I’m actually really happy with my (uneducated) choice!

As for the "why now?", I think like many Reddit users, I'm getting tired of the ongoing ensh*ttification, especially with the recent issues around upvotes... And yesterday was a rainy day, so I took the time to finally understand how Lemmy works, and here I am.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!

Hopefully Lemmy becomes bigger than Reddit. I was banned from Reddit for life and it's unfair because it's up to the whims of various moderators.

I carry here as a year and a half (before I was in another instance that closed) and I can say that the increase in traffic, participation, comments, vows etc. For a couple of months it is remarkable.

I don't know if it's for Trump pushing Europeans and Candadia outside their products, for Reddit turning its platform into shit full of bots and unpopular standards or a combination of both, but I think that the network and community is doing really good (we even have a community of conservatives, half a year ago something like that would be unthinkable)

I'm a sponsor and I'm not saying this to get thanked or something, I just want to say that I kick in $2 a month. It's not a ton but if I can help keep this place running then I'm happy to toss a coin to my admin 🙂

That's awesome! I don't know what sparked more people to come over though. Would be great if someone can fill me in since I'm so out of the loop.

Also, PSA to all new users on Desktop: Try Alexandrite - a gorgeous front-end for Lemmy https://alexandrite.app/lemm.ee/

Why the sudden rise? Actually bonkers

Boost for reddit stopped working for reddit. Then I saw they made a boost for Lemmy. Was curious and now I regularly check this platform out.

It's all trash redditor implants who think they're opinions are absolute and make the fediverse politically, individualized, and nonsensical garbage. First time I logged in and contributing to the fediverse in about a month, and of course, I see this that makes me immediately pissy.

Yes. More people that get offended at the words "rape" and "kill" are exactly what the fediverse need. This is total pandering for the sake of members and publicity. And no one needs to worry. I'm gradually working away from this platform because unfortuantely most people here just want to virtue signal or trauma dump to either make themselves feel better or feign ignorance that they're talking to another person just so they can can feel better about their sorry lives by tearing down this person or group on the internet.

Congratulations - feddit.uk has also see an order of magnitude growth in sign-ups, just from a lower base. This is definitely Rexxit 2.0.

Hi dudies

hi! is there any "default" community or a place where every new user is automatically registered in? or a place where we can see some kind of graph for lemmy users signing up on a daily basis? would be nice for !datahoarder@lemmy.ml datahoarding too haha.

Hello! I joined today

I’ve been wanting to get away from the primary social media platforms because reasons and I’m glad to have found lemm.ee just yesterday! I’m still looking for good alternatives for instagram and youtube but in fairness I haven’t done a lot of research yet. Happy to be apart of something new!

Just joined a few days ago, actually loving it so far. Of course we lack a few of my fav subs here but I know it'll grow.