reddit’s fuckery is unlikely to ever re-produce the massive influx of new users that the API nonsense did in 2023

While Reddit might not have a single screw-up of that scale again, that is probably better for long-term Lemmy growth. I think we’ve forgotten just how ill-equipped the small handful of Lemmy instances were to cope with the 2023 influx. We have many more stable instances now, and the onboarding process is smoother.

For new users: !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com

We’re actually closing in on 50k, posssibly already past it by now.

Welcome!

I’ll likely stick around reddit for a bit and do my part to comment about making the switch

!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com often features has Reddit posts which mention Lemmy or problems with Reddit. Great place to find and share opportunities to spread the word.

Happy cake day!

I did not expect Snoop Dogg and Tencent.

I don’t think PieFed has mobile apps yet, but I believe they’re planning on forking Thunder for Lemmy.

it’s very likely they are not doing this in good faith

If they aren’t doing it in good faith, I wonder what faith they are doing it in. They can’t just hate Lemmy for no reason. Are they opposed to the political leanings of the developers? Do they just really love u/spez?

IPO any day now! :)

Good job, everyone! Lots of disinformation about Lemmy debunked. I hope Redditors read the comments as well as the post.

Ah, I see. So we might not quite be at 50k, but we’re pretty close.

With Reddit’s 1.1B MAU, that puts us at… 0.0045%? It’s not much, but we’re growing!

an inverse graph showing the number of Reddit accounts dropping

Would a drop even be visible? Reddit has 1.1B MAU.

Interesting to get some alternate perspectives from one of the most successful (relatively speaking) non-fediverse Reddit alternatives. It could provide insight into where Lemmy could improve.

I don’t think it’s worth spending effort convincing them to switch to Lemmy, though. They’re happy where they are. Convincing Reddit users to switch is a much more effective use of our efforts.

Lemmy gained over 2000 new users in the past two weeks, which is ~10x Discuit’s MAU.

Edit: Possibly not actually 2000, as there is a discrepancy between the stats on join-lemmy.org and fediverse.observer. Still likely in the high hundreds, though.

if someone isn’t linking in the right format, I’ll be kicked out of my instance and suddenly I can’t comment anymore

there’s probably browser extensions to help

Indeed, there are. You want Violentmonkey + Lemmy Universal Link Switcher. Best way to avoid accidentally leaving your home instance.

Lemmy Universal Link Switcher, or LULs for short, scans all links on all websites, and if any link points to a Lemmy instance that is not your main/home instance, it rewrites the link so that it instead points to your main instance.

the absurdity of this posts gives me an idea to basically write a satirical reddit post that explains all the wonderful aspects of Lemmy as if it’s somehow an issue

I think this an excellent idea! You’ve already got some good material going.

Huh, TIL about Google’s Emoji Kitchen.

Does capslock work for the !@#$%^&*() row? I don’t think it does on my keyboard.

Wow, we hit the 50k mark faster than I expected. Onward to 60k?

I think having the moderators of a popular subreddit officially endorse Lemmy will lead to more Lemmy growth than if they just closed the subreddit.

Yeah, that caught my eye as well.