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

Yes... Yes he can

spez a real one fr

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. 😆

0.18.1, guy

I’m not your guy, pal.

I’m not your pal, mate.

He's not your mate, budday.

I'm not your budday, muchacho.

I'm not your muchacho, partner

I am not your muchacho, amigo

I'm not your amigo, dude

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

Ahh, look at that reply string we started. It's feeling like home around here already.

And my axe!

Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

You get a lemon, that's the best I can do.

🍋

You took it too far

Oh God lol

And not a moment too soon!

I'm so glad the auto refresh bug on the main page is finally gone after the software update.

Would it be too dramatic to say it's changed my life?

It made me whole again

Yeah, it was REALLY weird bug!

As fellow former Redditors we should understand server issues

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First comment for me! 11 years on Reddit, never talked much but lurked a lot. I can’t use their official app so I’m here now and looking forward to see the community grow!

Just registered about a week ago, Lemmy feels like Reddit was like when Digg died.

I mostly lurked on Reddit too but I've been trying to engage with this place as much as possible in order to help it grow.

Just registered about a week ago, Lemmy feels like Reddit was like when Digg died.

I see we still have repeating comments around here lol

Yeah, it happened with one of mine too. It's like Connect had a seizure or something. Might happen with this one as well

Yeah, it happened with one of mine too. It's like Connect had a seizure or something

I'm in a similar boat. Was a big lurker on Reddit for a decade and finally made the switch once Apollo went down. Really like the vibe of Lemmy so far!

Just registered about a week ago, Lemmy feels like Reddit was like when Digg died.

created by creator

deleted by deleter

removed by mod

💀

Is this just a pun or is there a way to support this instance? (Is that the right word for lemmy.world? Still trying to figure this out a little)

In the Lemmy.world homepage sidebar there is a link to the donation page.

Thanks!

https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world

💀

Not a joke, you can support @ruud using the mastodon.world Patreon or OpenCollective. See the below blog post for more:

Honestly, I didn't believe this would happen. I thought all who wanted to migrate have done this already and there would be maybe a couple hundred people joining us today. I'm glad I was wrong. Gives me hope in people of the Internet standing up for what they deserve.

I didn't do it till last minute cause I'm lazy and hate creating accounts for every little thing these days (though I definitely prefer a new account than login with Google or whatnot). However I loved Reddit is Fun and the CEO has made some less than satisfactory decisions so it was time to pull up stakes and move on, again, though 15 years since the Digg move it had it's time, now for something else. I thought it was amusing I didn't even realize spez was the CEO till this recent but, I just always saw him posting but never commenting so I ignored him years ago. Figure you should do more than spam links on these sites.

I fully converted yesterday because I was holding out hope that reddit would do the right thing.

We vote with our dollars and our actions. Consider this a vote for freedom.

I made a Lemmy account a couple weeks ago and started getting familiar with the fediverse. Then I decided to create a different user on Lemmy.world so I think I registered this one yesterday.

For the last 30 days I’ve still used Reddit because it has the most activity and it’s been like “this is the last time!!” kinda feels. But now I’ve discovered wefwef, and I’m not going to be using Reddit anymore so here I am.

I think a lot of people are similar…nostalgia and ease of use kept everyone mostly using Reddit and now the people who care about the whole issue will start contributing here.

WefWef is incredible. Developer is a beast!

I accessed reddit through the Sync app and actually didn't realise it was just going to stop working. I'm still not really sure what's going on here, this is my first experience of the fediverse. I like learning new things.

The sync dev is working on a sync for lemmy, I think he said aiming for 4 weeks. He made a channel in his discord for info.

Could you share the link for the discord?

Me too. When sync stopped working it was the kick in the pants I needed.

I used the official app once today and just felt dirty.

I haven't even tried the official app, i went onto the website to look at the Sync sub just to check it wasn't a temporary bug or anything and saw a load of links to here so thought I'd check it out.

Find your favorite communities, ask questions, post memes. Feel as at home ❤️

The sooner we realize corporate control of social media was a massive mistake, the better the world will be. Imagine if corporate social media algos that drive engagement through ragebaiting hadn't existed for the last 10 years...

What a great perspective -- let the good times roll!

As a new user from reddit, wanted to say thanks for welcoming us and working hard to accommodate us!

Lots of us new folks around! Also great there are so many apps being developed for Lemmy. Although the web UI is also pretty good.

I've seen so many helpful posts since joining yesterday, thank you to everyone for welcoming all of us, keeping servers running, posting helpful info on how to Lemmy, etc. - Happy to have a new home!

Welcome newcomers to the fediverse!

Let's do things right on this new fediverse

Kinda silly to think we'd get it right there first time? To learning, moving upward, and a brighter Internet.

Other than google/wikipedia, what are some other resources to learn more in depth as to what the feeiverse is? If there are any, that is. Unless its just "heres the name, go learn"

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spez is unironically the best thing to happen to Lemmy lmao.

Hello, it's me, a reddit refugee 🎶

Oh hi Mark

I didn't know it was you.

Honestly, its already a good amount of content. People reply, people upvote, people post interesting articles. Its filling the void for me already.

I love exploring all the communities. It's been a fun ride so far and a super positive experience!

Glad you're here, a devastating blow to reddit if this is where you live now! Welcome!

Holy shit, are you really u/PoppinKREAM? If so, it's an honor, sir.

You better not be fooling me.

Feel free to check out my comment history to compare. Not sure how else to prove it, sorry :S

This is what reddit doesn't get when they say it's only a small fraction of users who left.

Redditors aren't created equally. The vast majority lurk and maybe don't even upvote.

You put in more work than a lot of professional journalists, and provided the content for free

Totally agree. I stopped using Apollo 2 weeks ago to get myself adjusted early but felt like there was something missing each day.

Using Lemmy right now really feels like that void has now been filled.

If you used Apollo before, I think you should definitely try WefWef app in browser (wefwef.app zite), it is incredible!

Cheers. I’ve placed it where Apollo used to be on my homepage. Its almost indistinguishable.

Yeah, wefwef is really cool.

!startrek@startrek.website

Both twitter, and reddit (maybe twitch and youtube) going to shit is perfect timing

What is happening with Twitch?

I believe they changed how they payout to streamers, essentially cutting their income by around 25% and then keeping it for themselves. Also stricter rules on sponsorships and how they are advertised on your stream. I don't really know the details I don't use twitch just what I remember reading.

You can definitely feel it.

Scotty, divert power to stabilizers.

Are you watching Strange New Worlds?

As a diehard Trekkie since 1987, I can say it’s already one of my top 3 shows

A. They have a live orchestra performing quite a bit of the score, like old Trek. Makes a difference

B. They’re having fun

C. The characters work

D. Pike is sexy af

It’s a great Trek show.

Pike is just “ok”. His hair, on the other hand…

Hard agree, first true trek we got after 2000

Lower Decks and Prodigy aren't standard Trek but they're both fantastic, too.

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Might as well drop some links here for the star trek instance.

https://startrek.website/c/startrek

!risa@startrek.website

https://startrek.website/c/risa

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I am one of those people who migrated as I grew up with an internet that was full of small communities and interesting content uncontrolled by greedy corporations. When I found Reddit back in 2012, I thought it was amazing and going to be a bastion of information for a modern internet. Well, now we know that wasn't the case thanks to chasing the almighty dollar. Hopefully this is the point in time where we can steer this ship around and bring the control back to the users.

I share your opinion. I'm optimistic about the migrations away from twitter, reddit, and facebook. This is a great opportunity for the improvement and democratization of social networks. The more that people move to open source platforms and the more that people demand control of their data, the better!

I peeked around a bit with Connect (android) for a while, and the things that stood out the most to me was the small size and sluggishness of the whole thing. BUT what also stuck out far more were pins of maintenance because of growth & updates of constant hard work to increase performance, and an interface that (while slightly jank) is infinitely superior to the official reddit app. It's good to see continued growth, especially in such a welcoming community. The problems are providing to be simple growing pains and it's great to be here.

I'm using Connect app too for now. Ateast until Sync for Lemmy is ready! Connect isn't terrible by any means. Though I haven't received a reply or DM yet so I'm not sure if background updates are working.

Liftoff app has been much better than Connect for me

Yup, I totally agree with this. liftoff works really well. Im waiting for Sync.

It really helps that the official Reddit app is so awful. The bar is quite low for acceptability!

Fyi the sluggishness is because you've signed up on lemmy.world, smaller instances don't have this scaling issue :)

This is beautiful to see - I understand Reddit is a company that needs to make a profit, but the way they have treated their users and unpaid staff is shocking (but not unexpected). The fact it also heavily impacts users with additional accessibility requirements is terrible.

Will be fun in a way to watch Reddit try to claw back what has happened.

Give it 12 months it will likely be a wreck along with the current CEO who will probably be given the boot.

I'm old enough to have seen many services go through this: AOL, MSN, MySpace, Fark, Slashdot, Digg, Something Awful, etc. Reddit (and maybe Twitter) are just next in line to realise they are not too big to fail. Hopefully followed by Meta.

I'm old enough to remember when this sort of thing was a regular thing, especially with bulletin boards popping up and burning down with regularity. Apart from crowd sourced troubleshooting and the like, reddit hasn't really done much for me.

the thing is just like how people thought r/antiwork would be gone, turns out after some time it regained it users and activities, so I guess lets see if reddit users would be back, especially the amount of people browse from pc is not a small number either, I believe big subreddit will still alive or retained its user just like usual

I know Slashdot's time has passed but didn't know there was drama involved.
Was there any Digg v4 like event that led to its fall?

It's quite a way back now, so my memory is a bit fuzzy! I think there were redesigns and the site was sold to a company who mismanaged a few elements. I seem to remember a lot of noise on the site at the time, people complaining etc and then a large number moved away. I'm sure someone can fill in the details in a more reliable way haha.

I remember Digg used to be great too - between that and Stumble Upon you could find so much awesome stuff!

I suspect Reddit will die a much slower death, as it is just so big and widely used and the exodus of users doesn't feel as huge. It will be interesting to see how everything unfolds.

If I recall correctly, Digg made some weirdo policy about officially recognized channels had priority over community posts?

Claiming they were trying to improve the quality and trustworthiness of their content.

They also made a redesign, so frontpage became 90% pictures, more suitable for people with zero attention span.

As I recall it, Digg "died" super fast after that. Of course technically Digg still exist, but it's nothing compared to when at its height, it became an internet buzzword much like "to Google it" still is to day.

Yes! Digg was pretty dramatic in how it fell from grace I think, whereas some other platforms have limped along slowly for quite a while after their prime, a bit like me.

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Best Lemmy instance on the fediverse. I appreciate the work the admins here have done

I am a reddit refugee. I am so happy that lemmy exists. Thank you all for standing up these servers and giving us a place to scroll. ☺

We gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers.

Congratulations to the instance for it's extraordinary growth!

Welcome everyone who popped over from reddit.

It's important to remember you're on the fediverse, a huge variety of websites running all sorts of software of which lemmy.world is just one server, and Lemmy itself is just one piece of software. There's many other reddit-alikes like Lemmy, as well as software like Twitter, or Instagram, or Facebook, or YouTube.

Decentralization is strength. Try to spread out over instances with our users and our communities because instances can and do shut down, shut off federation, or otherwise become reddit.

This is supported by admins and users, there is no pot of venture capital money keeping instances running or paying admins. Keep that in mind.

Welcome to all you new folks! Water is great!

It's so great to see. Just proves what everyone was saying all along. Communities are built by the people that participate in them, and not the tools. Get rid of those tools and we'll find other ones.

Glad to be here!

It's astounding, seeing how fast new communities are being founded and populated. I'm not much of a "community starter" type, but I'm quite excited to find a new home for the shitpost-tier OC I make. I'm also sincerely fascinated to see how all these new places coexist/cross-pollinate.

Immigrant from Reddit is Fun here.

I found the comment that mentioned Summit is quite close to RIF helpful, so here I am!

Summit is not even close to RIF. I am waiting for Boost.

I'm a RIF widower... I'm finding Liftoff to be a great mobile app. It doesn't seem to get much love but it's stable, easy to use and actively developed. I'm feeling right at home with it 🙂

Just made the jump - this is my first comment on Lemmy. Here's to a solid alternative!

Welcome!

Exciting to see it growing!

We're counting today as the first day?

*Happy Canada Day.

The first day post reddit API death, which was what the whole migration was about, so yes, in a fashion.

Yeah, I don't think we can say there is a first day. More like there are waves. We could tentatively say the first one was around the black out. Although, there may have been some smaller waves before that. The next big one is the API-ocalypse. The next big one after that will be when the reddit executives fire their foot shotgun again.

I think there is some merit to saying that a lot of people are stubborn and won't move unless forced. The apps going down today prompted a big wave that's for sure

Maybe yes. Personally it’s not even necessarily about ads for me, it’s the character of the ownership of the platform.

Spez is going the way of Musk and Zuckerbot. It was time to bite the bullet and try something entirely different.

I haven’t quite got the hang of this or Mastodon yet, and it’ll probably take a lot of time, but it’s ticking a whole lot of boxes so far.

Also oddly, you’re even being welcoming. Even the fellow ex redditors. Perhaps it’s refugee mentality. :)

I wanted there to be one big spike when they turned it off. Had my account here ready to go and used sync until it stopped working.

Long time reddit lurker here, trying out a few alternatives at the moment but quite liking Lemmy. Glad to see growth in all of them and super excited for the boost for Lemmy app coming out!

I know its only one data point, but I just logged on to see how many people were online in a sub i used to frequent and it was down 30-50%, the lowest numbers i've seen all year.

Holiday weekend too. Might be messy data points

I do site traffic for a living and it can be some of the lower weekends for non-commerce sites

I'm curious to check stuff like that, but I'm refusing. Just checking it counts as traffic, and I don't want them to mistake my morbid curiosity for me still using it.

Well I’m new here so there’s one more data point. I figure if this thing doesn’t bug out, continues to function and servers can handle growth, it’s got no reason to shrink.

It would be fascinating to see the traffic and usage comparison for Reddit over time to get an idea of genuinely how many people are moving away and staying away.

Weirdly it's a similar feeling to moving to a way nicer house!

❤️

I'm here!!! Fuck Reddit!!

I already learned my lesson when I signed up to the big Mastodon instance hosted on the other side of the world—found the second largest US-based server I could find, signed up there, rock solid so far.

Welcome newcomers to the fediverse!

Hello all you fine Reddit refugees.

💀

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Hi, my name is power2bill. Feels odd to not have RIF on my phone. I'm going to lurk for awhile and make a comment every 2-3 months. Hopefully, new communities pop up that I used to go on from reddit. I'll be here enjoying usefully, and sometimes not useful information. Cheers everyone! 🍻

I'm finding that quite a lot of communities exist, they just take more work at the moment. For me, I've found a uk community but cannot post due to signing up to .world. creating an extra account doesn't send the verification email. I see all this of teething problems tho as was always the case with reddit.

I think you might've run into another teething problem. This comment seems to be posted 8 times a few minutes apart.

I assume you've worked it out by now but you do not need a second account! Unless you want to move off .world to something smaller and less laggy ofc which I would definitely understand 😅

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I hope I am not missing anything if I joined using lemmy.ml.

No, federation means we all see the same content regardless of which site we sign up on with the exception of sites that yours may block.

But be wary that lemmy.ml is a tankie instance and the ".ml" stands for Marxism-Leninism. I generally avoid lemmy.ml communities so I don't get banned for saying "the uyghur genocide is a real thing" or anything.

Oh ok thanks. I actually thought ml meant machine learning. My mistake not looking up what .ml domain meant.

No worries, .ml is in fact the official domain of the state of Mali. It's just the interpretation of this single domain owner what he wants to stand "ml" for.

I wondered that and I'm glad I've avoided the .ml instance.

Almost every leftist space on Reddit was infected by tankies, hopefully they just stick to themselves (doubt).

Not accurate. We don't see the same content. lemmy.ml blocks about 40 plus instances, so those that are subscribed to lemmy.ml won't see these instances.

source

joined using both lemmy.world and lemm.ee. seeing no problems here so far

Just signed up yesterday myself. What's with all the different domains?

They are federated instances. Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, which means distributed servers running the same service (or services) and registering in one instance gives you access to information on the other servers running Lemmy. You can have different communities ('subreddits') in different servers but they are all accessible and joinable. This way is not a centralised system.

The Fediverse is not just Lemmy, can be other services like Mastodon, etc.

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Just found out about the wefwef PWA app which is pretty damn good as an Apollo replacement. Hopefully it can be a native iOS app in the future. Definitely made me ease into Lemmy a lot easier. Hope good things for the future.

Wefwef is great. I think it’s better as a webapp though. No need to regress to an iOS app, that just locks others out (android users) and requires unnecessary access to private information.

Used to be a long time Reddit lurker, but I feel as if this migration for me is giving me the chance to start afresh, and be a bigger part of this new community!

I'm excited to be here! I heard a lot about the digg migration to reddit around when I first started on there 10 years ago. Never thought I'd be a part of the next one so soon!

Good to see Lemmy grow, but I hope that the decentralization will work out so that the large influx of new users will spread out as evenly as possible. General purpose instances help balancing the load, and last time I checked join-lemmy.org there have been several general purpose instances, which seems promising.

I think once people start to figure out just HOW the Fediverse works, they'll start spreading out. I joined beehaw originally, then they defedereated from lemmy.world, which is where most of the communities were that I had subscribed to. That's why I joined lemmy.world...

so far i think that process is going to be a bit of a barrier for the average user... so many logins. i understand that decentralization carries this burden, but i'm not sure it's worth it for me personally, and i think i may be slightly more inclined that the average user to jump through those hoops. we shall see.

The decentralization has its warta for sure. I'm curious how it's all going to play out. As an example I'm in IT so not an idiot but I'm registered on InfoSec.pub. now I've learned there's better "home" nodes but even though the comments are federated I can't login to a node that isn't my "home" node which is weird to say the least.

It's like email in that sense. You can't log into Hotmail with your Gmail account but you can still access all the content on Hotmail through Gmail.

So glad I accidentally signed up on the best server. I don’t regret my decision. Now that I have WefWef, I’m sold. Love it here. Love the server. Love the community and subscribed to multiple communities in the fediverse too. Learning a lot!

lemmy.world is awesome, no doubt. But in my experience lemm.ee is faster and has less bugs, maybe you should try it out. Welcum to the fediverse ❤️❤️❤️

It's unfortunate there isn't really a way to migrate accounts from one server to another. You basically have to create a new account which is a bit of a pain.

There is an open issue on GitHub for this. You can try raising your voice there in hope of some update.

Definetly. Mastodon has had this feature for some time. Eventually Lemmy will be too.

Oh damn, I remember people saying that everybody interested in Lemmy already joined by now. I'm really curious how things will look one week from now

My experience today was Apollo not working, learning about the amazing https://wefwef.app, and now here I am making my first post. I like it!

I also highly recommend Memmy: https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD

Welcome to the new users :)

Ohio 🙌

Well, sorry for saying this folks, but I regret having deleted my Reddit account...

... before editing all my comments to point to Lemmy.

Whoooo!! Here we go. New era of internet. Twitter is dying, reddit is dying, I can't wait to see the decentralized web come to life.

I finally made an account after things got stable. A +1 for the active user count. I mainly lurk, but it's actually compelling to engage here.

Glad to be here! Just got to learn the ropes.

First comment on Lemmy. Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help us get started?

You can check out this guide for a good primer on the whole Lemmy/Fediverse thing

I'm here after ten years with Baconreader. Really sad it's gone, but I'm super hopeful about my future here! If anyone knows of any communities that enjoy watches or fountain pens, let me know!

I'd like to say glad to bere here, but tbh it makes me sad to leave behind my Reddit account of almost a decade.

Lemmy look promising though (and still slightly confusing :)

I'm glad there's an impetus to change. I have some reservations about the fediverse, but I think it's got the right idea and will evolve into something better itself, or help us learn more about designing social media systems for users.

You can really tell, as posts that used to have 1-2 comments now have 4-5. It's nice chatting with y'all

Yay! I haven’t chatted with you, but still saying hello and I hope you have a great weekend.

Just a guy here, but I hope you both have a great week, all the way up to Thursday.

You doing something bad on Thursday?

Has no one told you? Thursday is The Reckoning.

Oh i thought they said Wreckening, thanks for clearing that up. I'd better get my shit together.

Awww, I had my Wrecking Stick all primed and everything.

Using Wefwef myself and lemmy.zip...both have been snappy as I was accustomed to using Apollo.

I’ve been using wefwef too, and its been working good so far. Its a little slow but I think thats more from the huge increase in traffic rather than an inherent problem with it

This is my first comment on Lemmy. I'm still learning the ropes but about to nuke my 10 year old reddit account with probably at this point tens of thousands of comments - content for Reddit.

Reddit expats represent.

Man the servers got hit today didn't they!

The future is looking bright

Joined yesterday day. It's a bit of a learning curve and requires some time to rebuild my "front page". I'm enjoying it so far, haven't stepped foot on Reddit once since then besides my muscle memory launching bacon reader a few times.

I really do love it here.

Glad to see folks coming over here, definitely shaping up into a preferable alternative :)

It’s weirdly exciting to have a fresh start on a new platform. Hoping to see those numbers continue to grow!

Holy shit

Weirdly it's a similar feeling to moving to a way nicer house!

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

I just joined and so far I'm really liking it. Gonna have to figure out the new format these instances, but I'm up for it!

I have slowly been trying to redo my frontpage here and so far with all those migration links it's been a breeze

Glad to be here and be a part of the community! It's unfortunate Reddit is going the way of Digg, but definitely looking forward to watching Lemmy grow and develop.

Another one from the Digg to Reddit migration!

Still learning the ropes of it all. I'll try not to be just a lurker like I am ha.

Welcome!

Man the servers got hit today didn't they!

The future is looking bright

That's a mighty leap.

Crazy!! I don't envy the admins lol, tho they're doing a fantastic job in keeping the server up.

Yeah for sure. Not sure if they’ll be getting enough sleep for the next few days!

So glad to see Lemmy get big

Incredible feeling 💯❤️❤️❤️

First post post-Reddit as well

Welcome!

Someone should post this in r/UpliftingNews

And yet fediverse observer is showing declining user count, while server count, comments and posts are growing steadily.

Why?

I wonder if the declining user count is due to the influx of people trying to get on board, but with such a surge systems fell over. It’s good to see server count/comments and posts on the increase… that shows to me that people are starting to come. It’s the wild frontier days in terms of the mass migration of a lot of people… there will be a learning curve for people to understand, change habits, get used to the “new life on mars” so to speak… but I feel that it will happen. It’s really refreshing to be part of the budding beginnings of what hopefully becomes a new front page of the internet.

It’s impressive from my bystander perspective of how quickly people mobilise, and communities can work together to get something that feels similar to what life was like before the mass migration. It is also refreshing for my brain from the doom and despair of the world to be part of a small group (mainly by lurking) and watching things forge ahead.

bots account, defederation ?

This probably happened with every Lemmy server out there.

I was having timeout issues with most that I tried to use.

Today everything seems normal.

Very happy to see that such a strong migration is actually happening.

Slightly off-topic: Can you guys access lemm.ee? It looks all messed up on my end.. @sunaurus@lemm.ee

Can you elaborate how it looks messed up? I am writing this comment through lemm.ee without issues.

Sorry, I should have done that. See this: https://imgur.com/a/tJuih4U

EDIT: I have tested it on 3 browsers, one of which saves no cookies/history.. I doubt it is cache related? EDIT2: Tested also on 2 different mobile browsers. Same issue.

That's super strange.. does it even look like this if you open through incognito/private browsing mode?

Also, could you possibly share a screenshot of what is in your browser dev tools console?

I am suffering from the same issue. I opened my browser's devtools and noticed https://lemm.ee/static/e20bfa7/js/client.js is returning 404. So I turned on my VPN into a random other country (I chose Norway), and the issue stopped. Could it be that your CDN is not serving the client.js in some parts of the world?

I have purged my CDN, could I ask you to check if it's still 404 with your original config?

I can confirm it works without a VPN now from my location :). Thank you!

Awesome, thank you for confirming!

Yes.. Switching VPN servers fixed the issue for me. @sunaurus@lemm.ee. The trouble I was seeing was on Mullvad Portugal server.

Repeating the other comment just so you get a notification, sorry if you already saw it above:

I have purged my CDN, could I ask you to check if it's still 404 with your original config?

I can confirm it works without a VPN now from my location :). Thank you!

It is working correctly now with the original config in all cases. Problem has been fixed. Thank you!

Works fine for me. Try clearing your browser cache.

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And it's really slow.

Lemmy itself isn’t slow, but many instance admins are struggling with performance scale due to the huge user growth. It’ll settle out, just bear with ‘em.

It's me! I'm one of the new joiners! I've been enjoying the content and discussion here in the last day since I created my profile here. I have noticed a bit of lag and issues with things loading. I know there was a software update and obviously a sudden influx of new users. As frustrating as it was to have to move apps and communitie and despite the obvious growing pains, I have been happy to find a new community that is friendly and vibrant as this one!

Glad to be here!

Good for Lemmy.

Yup, here I am lemmy.world!

That is a great gain. Awesome.

I am currently writing some more instance stats graphs on lemmyverse: https://lemmyverse.net/instance/lemmy.world/user-growth

You can clearly see the growth! More to come :D

i'm so glad to be part of the revolution

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 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 am using 'Connect for Lemmy' on Android.

Liftoff for Android has been a solid alternative.

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Such great news about Lemmy.world

Came to know about Lemmy when Sync for reddit dev put notice on their app, joined same day. Waiting for Sync for Lemmy. Hi my fellow fedophiles.

Looks awesome!

lets go

That’s intense.

I joined Reddit when Digg made some drastic mistakes. Not sure Lemmy will be the answer, here I am regardless.

I’m also a former Snoo

i have been using saidit becasue i said something edgy and got shadowbanned on one of my reddit accounts a while back. sadly saidit never grew to be as big as lemmy. but it's still good to see decentralized platform rise again. someone mentioned aaron schwarz in a recent discussion on reddit perhaps under a post concerning reddit's recent policy changes and baclashes, and i am glad to see aaron's decentralization idea realizing here on lemmy.

As soon as a stable app happens that'll be amazing.

I'm using liftoff on Android and it's been solid today so far.

Sync for Lemmy is coming soon which should be one of the best apps around if it perfectly can replicate the (now removed) Reddit version.

I'm curious if anyone has made a "Here are the current apps for Lemmy" posts. The last one is a few days old.

Funny that 2 days seems too long ago.

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Tracking sites are lagging behind a bit, but so far lemmy.world is attracting the majority of new users since the reddit API shutdown.

The other big instances like lemmy.ml and beehaw.org are super slow today even though they're barely taking on new users. My hunch is people are scouting different lemmy instances and settling for lemmy.world because it's the most stable at the moment.

I wouldn't call it the first day of the Reddit migration.

Haha awesome!

I'm unable to even log into my .world account anymore. So just gonna use my other ones for now.

WoW that's insane, still lemmy.world is working better than lemmy.ml for me. Good job admins.

Lemmy gang rise up!

Is that local members or total users?

Local to lemmy.world users only.

If l.w continues to defed other instances it will become a problem having a glut of people on on instance

I thought it only defedded from instances that were being very explicitly racist and/or very poorly moderated. Those seemed like great decisions. What instances do you think shouldn't have been defederated?