Wow, we have doubled in size in around a week! Next week should be interesting!
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As a Canadian, I really appreciate this Lemmy instance. This might sound silly, but I feel a little bit of patriotism logging into a .ca website hosted in Canada.
Same,feels like home.
French and English bilingual here, not Canadian though, so thought it’d be a good place to start my Lemmy adventure.
Canadians are a welcoming bunch. As long as tou enjoy maple syrup and Hockey (I kid).
Welcome aboard, Friend!!
Glad to have you here, bud.
I think this is great. I’m following the spez shitshow whilst my reddit comments delete in the background. I’m going all in on lemmy.ca.
I hope to see more users and engagement in a few weeks. :)
Planning to also wipe my Reddit history and go all-in on Lemmy.
What have you been using to mass-delete your Reddit content? RES?
I discovered Redact (https://redact.dev/) which looks pretty awesome for mass deleting Reddit, Twitter, Facebook & dozens more. It’s got lots of options for mass deleting, auto-deleting based on criteria or even picking through your posts and choosing specifically which ones you want to delete.
I used https://shreddit.com/
My poor 14 year old account is now bear and empty. I’ll delete it officially soon.
Yep I shredded my ancient account before deletion, no google search revenue for spez.
The reason I joined was because I saw that Lemmy’s developer account had been suspended on Reddit.
When I migrated from Digg to Reddit, I didn’t look back, even if reddit was much smaller at that time.
Similarity, I won’t look back at Reddit now. I’m happy to be among others that are like minded.
Size doesn’t matter as much as people think it does. As long as there’s enough size for communities to talk to each other, you don’t need giant threads with thousands of votes and comments. Hell, most of the subreddits I liked the best were some of the smaller ones dedicated to a more niche interest
Wouldn’t have found this without the whole Reddit fiasco and it’s a great thing I did. I would still be mindlessly scrolling through posts that are uninteresting with ads everywhere (I didn’t know Apollo existed). Hopefully this is a start to something exciting here!
I fewl that I’ve read more articles from comments today on Lemmy than the rest of this year on Reddit.
Something about Lemmy seeems, I don’t know, a little less dumpster-fire rage-bait hate-fuel.
There was a moment earlier today where I received a reply notification from Reddit and was almost tempted. But, no, I’m here now.
Any idea how the other Lemmies are faring? I’d guess ml must be expanding significantly faster….
https://the-federation.info/platform/73
At the end of this page you can find instances that have opted in to statistics reporting and this information is updated daily.
Those stats are heartening.
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Interesting, I wonder what happened in Nov’22 for the users to drop so much.
Looks like a data error that was corrected because the numbers went up the same amount two months earlier.
Thank you!
lemmy.world also went past 1k registrations yesterday.
Someone also recently posted a graph of the user numbers over the past few months
They’re just over 2.7k right now, probably be over 3k by end of day.
I wouldn’t expect our 1.1k to balloon nearly as quickly, but it will be nice to snag more Canadians from the reddit-exodus.
oooh very cool!
When I was looking for an instance to sign up a few days ago, lemmy.ml had a notice suggesting people sign up on another instance, as they’re being absolutely flooded with new people. Seems like a good problem to have
according to archive.org, on June 1 .ml was at 26.7k, and they are now at 32.9k, so that’s quite a gain in just over a week.
they are also working on (and i think close to releasing) some performance improvements which should help too.
How are the hamsters in the wheel holding up @smorks@lemmy.ca ?
so far so good!
test post.
Why hello there. Hoping to see Lemmy keep growing!
Nice to see it happen!!
I’ve been spreading the word on Reddit, and I’ve started the board games and TabletopRPGs communities, I’m excited to see this take off! :)
Would you have a ratio of donations per user to keep this instance up and running?
More than happy to help keep this going.
if 5 users contributed $5/month, that would cover the hosting fees. does that help?
3 days later we’ve crossed 2k. Exciting stuff.
Boy oh boy, that old '486 this instance is running on is gonna get a workout!!
it’s actually a 386 DX. haven’t gotten around to upgrading it yet.
🤣🤣🤣
What kind of bandwidth and storage requirements might one expect with these user counts? I’m considering self-hosting an instance for migrating a couple of mostly text-based subs I work with (30-40K users).
that’s tough to say. i mean if it’s mostly text-based there shouldn’t be a lot of bandwidth or storage requirements.
One decimyriad.
Happy to be part of it! Just joined today.
