Lemmy.world grew by about 40% on the first day of reddit migration

MicroWave@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 2474 points –

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!

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We definitely felt the ship groaning through all this. Thankfully the Rudd-er skillfully navigated through this, and the software update on top.

Anyways, welcome to Lemmy 17!

Lemmy 17? We're on 0.18.0, buddy. šŸ˜†

0.18.1, guy

Iā€™m not your guy, pal.

Iā€™m not your pal, mate.

He's not your mate, budday.

I'm not your budday, muchacho.

Hopefully this doesn't interrupt the flow, but I definitely read this in Jamie Tartt's voice.

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As fellow former Redditors we should understand server issues

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