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

MicroWave@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 2472 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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What app are you guys using for Lemmy now ? I'm on Jerboa . I find it laggy while scrolling. What's a better alternative?

Connect for Lemmy is amazing.

There's also wefwef, which seems to be a clone of Apollo.

Popular Reddit apps like Sync and Boost are currently in the process of making Lemmy ports.

I'm using Connect as well and finding it easier and less buggy to use than I was Liftoff or Jerboa. Digging the site so far, I hope it keeps growing!

I'm using Connect as well and finding it easier and less buggy to use than I was Liftoff or Jerboa. Digging the site so far, I hope it keeps growing!

I like Jerboa, now that lemmy.world is updated to 0.18.1 it is working fine.

https://wefwef.app

I can't seem to add it to my home screen as a shortcut. First time I did, it didn't show any shortcut on the home screen and then every attempt since it says "shortcut already exists".

Edit: Fixed the issue. Had to clear my browser app cache and try again. It seems like I didn't drag the wefwef shortcut icon the first time to the home screen.

I like Jerboa so far. I haven't experienced any lag But it's annoying that when I go back to the list of posts or comments, the cursor automatically jumps to the top and I don't want to scroll back to where I've been.

wefwef.app doesn't have this problem. It's also smooth. However, I prefer a native app than browsing via a web browser.

You can also try installing the PWA (if your browser supports it). On https://sh.itjust.works, Somewhere on the browsers web page options, there should be something along "Install" or "Add to home screen". PWA is basically the website but without browser controls, so it feels more native.