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!

  • vepro@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • whoisearth@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Undearius@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        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.