Hi folks!

Remarkable growth in the past week, and indeed past 3 months. Thank you for providing the stats.

Lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works had been similar in size for most of 2024 (2500-3500 MAUs), but you're now nearly twice our size!

It's really nice to see this kind of growth because it's decreasing the overall share of the Lemmy userbase on lemmy.world and therefore increasing the stability of the network. There had been worries that lemmy.world would steadily increase its share of the userbase and become a single point of failure, but that seems increasingly unlikely.

Lemm.ee has always been a well-run server with great performance and an excellent admin and it's great to see that new users are choosing an option that will give them the best possible version of what Lemmy can offer.

Hello! I joined today

I'm a sponsor and I'm not saying this to get thanked or something, I just want to say that I kick in $2 a month. It's not a ton but if I can help keep this place running then I'm happy to toss a coin to my admin 🙂

Hello lemm.ee!

I’m one of the 609 new users who joined yesterday 🎉

At first, I didn’t know much about Lemmy, I just found lemm.ee through join-lemmy.org (filtered by "All topics - english - most active") and joined because it was the most popular instance...

Initially, I thought I needed to create an account on every instances I wanted to join to access more content, but after reading a lot of posts (in particular in this community!), I finally understood how federation works.

Now that I know more about Lemmy and lemm.ee itself, I’m actually really happy with my (uneducated) choice!

As for the "why now?", I think like many Reddit users, I'm getting tired of the ongoing ensh*ttification, especially with the recent issues around upvotes... And yesterday was a rainy day, so I took the time to finally understand how Lemmy works, and here I am.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!

I’m excited to be part of this growing community! The increased censorship of Reddit and breaking away from U.S. services were the biggest reasons for me trying Lemmy out.

I joined yesterday here too! I already hated reddit for the API thing (even though I use infinity) and for the enshittification that was happening, but censoring Luigi was way too much. Happy that I'm not the only one making the switch

Hey! Any idea on why this wave is happening? Also, how does it compare to the initial Reddit “refugee” wave?

Just joined a few days ago, actually loving it so far. Of course we lack a few of my fav subs here but I know it'll grow.

Signed up last night. With the oversight dumpsterfire that reddit has become, I really hope Lemmy continues to grow at a good clip.

LEMMEE IN! (ノ゜ー゜)ノ

I carry here as a year and a half (before I was in another instance that closed) and I can say that the increase in traffic, participation, comments, vows etc. For a couple of months it is remarkable.

I don't know if it's for Trump pushing Europeans and Candadia outside their products, for Reddit turning its platform into shit full of bots and unpopular standards or a combination of both, but I think that the network and community is doing really good (we even have a community of conservatives, half a year ago something like that would be unthinkable)

I’ve been wanting to get away from the primary social media platforms because reasons and I’m glad to have found lemm.ee just yesterday! I’m still looking for good alternatives for instagram and youtube but in fairness I haven’t done a lot of research yet. Happy to be apart of something new!

Lemm-ee is a cool brand too. Good job, Estonia!

Congratulations - feddit.uk has also see an order of magnitude growth in sign-ups, just from a lower base. This is definitely Rexxit 2.0.

You can thank Reddit for your new success, and I hope it continues. I was a 12 year member, with nearly a million Karma, and i was perma-banned for an opinion that I had stated numerous times with no problem. After the election, the same opinion got me permanently banned.

That was their excuse anyway. In reality, Im sure it was 12 years of resistance posts against the rising treason, corruption, and oppression of the Republican/MAGA/Nazi party. Now they are deleting any mention of Luigi, even in legit Mario Bros/Videogame discussions, and banning people just for upvoting. They are kicking out old, loyal, active members, just for using Reddit for what it was supposed to be used for. Kind of like what the FBI is doing to their agents who investigated HitlerPig's corruption and treason. Its the MAGA way, and Reddit is on board.

I wondered why Reddit would have so obviously made the choice to voluntarily join the Conservative Propaganda Machine, then I saw that Ohanion wants to buy TikTok. So does Zuckerfuck, and probably a lot more (Bezos? Musk?). They all know that it will be HitlerPig who will choose, and he will choose the guy who smooched his ass the most, and paid the biggest bribe. So turning Reddit into a MAGA propaganda mouthpiece was Ohanion's show of good faith.

I hope Reddit goes the way of Digg, and Lemmy takes over. The decentralization seems like a massive improvement over Reddit.

Bring reddit down!!!!

Welcome! I'm pretty new as well, and came from Reddit when Spez first started to censor for Trump. I had a 13 year account. I deleted that shit, and do not regret it.

Been here since the reddit API changes two years ago, and until this post didn't realize I had joined a brand new instance. Lemm.ee is the only instance Ive used and I love it.

I've never seen drama about or by this instance, it's just a place to get your Lemmy, no judgement or gatekeeping like on some others. Welcome all!

Hi, just joined today. Already love it! I somehow get more interaction on here than I do on reddit.

Definitely looking forward to small communities again.

When people start getting banned for anti-billionaire statements you're bound to have an exodus of people who were there for this message being spread in the first place. I just hope this place does a better job dealing with bots.

Just signed up today!

That's awesome! I don't know what sparked more people to come over though. Would be great if someone can fill me in since I'm so out of the loop.

Also, PSA to all new users on Desktop: Try Alexandrite - a gorgeous front-end for Lemmy https://alexandrite.app/lemm.ee/

hi! glad to be a part here!

Why the sudden rise? Actually bonkers

I was finally looking to take the plunge away from corporate social medias. I was already using BlueSky as my Twitter/X replacement, and one thing stuck with me that they were doing: Federation. That seemed cool, and look! There is a Reddit replacement that does this "federation" thing. Lemm.ee seemed to line up with my general principles (Im a leftist so i don't want any lefty communities or instances defeded) and i like talking with the community at large, so here i am :D

I've also recommended it to all my friends who enjoy BlueSky and are sick of reddit kowtowing to billionaires interests. Sorry/you're welcome for some of the user rush the last couple of days haha

I gotta say. Lemmy is really coming along. I've been here since the whole 3rd party API stuff and tired of seeing the same crappy content here. I know there's the whole, "be what you want to see" theory but the truth is I have never really posted new content on Reddit either. I've always been a lurker and commenter.

Anyway I just wanted to say that content seems to be a lot better recently.

Boost for reddit stopped working for reddit. Then I saw they made a boost for Lemmy. Was curious and now I regularly check this platform out.

Hi, new here, trying to get rid of 'murican stuff.

One question though: what is the stance on lemmygrad and its users on this instance? Their comments are disturbingly russian in nature

Reddit has been absolutely toxic over the past month or so. Looking forward to a change of pace!

Just got permabanned sitewide from Reddit for saying “trans women are women” and nothing more than that, so I figured I’d check this place out.

Came here to support Canada and boycott all American products including tech/reddit. Elbows up!

Hello! Just joined as well :)

Thank you lemm.ee admins and welcome new folks! Newcomers, you picked the best instance by the way.

Hello everyone. Just joined and getting used to the layout, coming from Reddit not much else.

I am very glad to be here, the community is way nicer

Lemmee in 😘

Welcome, new neighbours!

While checking out this wacky new space, I'd like to emcourage everyone to check out the Local tab, either at the top of your feed, or in your app menu. That's where yoi'll find posts from "communitues" (Lemmy's "subreddits") that are hosted on lemm.ee!

A lot of communities are on different sites, and are ported (tarriff free!) for your enjoyment, but as with most things, it seems, the most sustainable way forward is to support Local!

One thing that many people new to Lemmy and the wider "fediverse" (because it's not just people on Lemmy-based websites that you'll find posting in the communities here, surprisingly enough) struggle with is that each website on the network has its own "name space", meaning that each community name can be used on each site. So, you can have, say, !pottery@lemmy.ca, !pottery@lemm.ee, and !pottery@lemmy.world. People often fret over "having to follow all of them", and wanting ways to collapse them into a single forum. And for a really niche topic, that might make sense (the thing to do, though, is just pick the one that best serves you and don't worry about what's going on on the other side of the fence). But for bigger topics, this "splintering" is often a godsend, since we can all have real discussions about the topic in smaller spaces. And, of course, !politics is going to just be meanibgfully different on .ca vs .ee vs .world.

If you look to local first, it becomes much easier to stop worrying and love the bomb distributed network.

Hopefully Lemmy becomes bigger than Reddit. I was banned from Reddit for life and it's unfair because it's up to the whims of various moderators.

Hey, thanks a lot for taking care of the server and stuff : ) Looking forward to meet this nice community.

Hi dudies

Just joined a few hours ago! Still getting used to the format, but i'll learn! Very excited to see this place grow bigger!

Yay! My first post 😃 Thank you 🙏

It is interesting to learn what drives behavioural change (individually and group wise). The 'I am really done with this 💩' makes us move and look out for better alternatives.

Great post !

Yeah, Ive been seeing posts getting lot of upvotes recently welcome reddit refugees!!

I’ve been or Reddit for years. recently got a ban because I commented on a post on r/pics, but apparently since I had commented in a subreddit they disagreed with I was permanently banned from their community. I asked what post and and was told I’m now muted for 28 days. All done by bots.

I forgot about it and carried on, but one day about 20 days later I commented with a different account on another r/pics post. Suddenly both accounts are now blocked from Reddit for 7 days.

Well fuck em, I deleted that app. When bots can get you banned, for not even saying anything wrong, just because you commented on another subreddit that whole site is fucked and going to hell.

Happy to be here and hopefully we can not deal with the same ban hammer style bs that Reddit is doing.

hi! is there any "default" community or a place where every new user is automatically registered in? or a place where we can see some kind of graph for lemmy users signing up on a daily basis? would be nice for !datahoarder@lemmy.ml datahoarding too haha.

It's so cool being here. Actual people being people with a certain hint of joy because of being here.

That is a wonderful chart.

Congratulations. Great to see growth :)

Nice to be here :D. Took a short while to understand the layout, im on Voyager. Unfortunately, i still think that the design needs to be even simpler to get really popular, like for example that the app asks for your interests and lets you start into these instances right away. But i think i will stay :)

This is encouraging. I wish i found out about Lemm.ee sooner. I had heard of it before but for some reason stayed on reddit that is until they IP banned me for a comment essentially saying “international law states occupied indigenous populations have a right to resist and fight occupation by any means necessary including organized violence” and now seeing how reddit is attacking people for supporting Luigi Mangione and calling for revolution against a decrepit disgusting fascist regime that obviously wont allow for any systemic change within its own mechanisms is beyond concerning. We need people still on reddit to spread the word and help those still trapped in that awful corporatist controlled community to break free and join lemm.ee

Joined today. Is there hope that there will be an android app available soon, that allows phone access other than logging in through a browser?

Happy to be here, happier to see it grow!

I didn’t think I’d like it here. It turns out I like it quite a bit.

Thank you so much for creating this instance. I appreciate all your work.

Happy to be part of the first big wave of 2025. I’m sure there will be plenty more.

Thanks for having me!

Welcome new users!

For how long I have to wait until I can upload images for a community after my registration? Thx

Just got here. Seems pretty cool so far.

Hello from Lemmy.ml! Great to see new people around here, maybe this is the wave we need to kick off the RuneScape community ;)

Appreciate the transparency! Great to see and cements the wise choice I made to create an account outside of .world

I feel comfortable here. Thank you very much.

Welcome everybody!

Hello all! Does anybody know how old my account should be before I can make a post(not a comment). I was trying to upload a photo on the sourdough community(is it called a community?), and I‘ve got the message that my account is to new to post. It is 11 days old. I could not find in a quick search how old it should be. I‘ve asked AI and it said around 48h for some communities.

New friends! :)

Bye Reddit, hello Lemmy.

Time to boycott that platform it has become a joke.

Lemm.eeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

Well its good to be on lemmy! I came over with the initial api changes and went back and forth, now im here to stay hopefully.

Loving it here!

Just joined a few days ago, trying to get the hang of how the federation system works! Happy to be apart of the growth though!

Nice post!

Are there any keyboard shortcuts for navigation?

Any comment on the relation between signups/total-members/daily-active-users/users-never-seen-after-their-first-week? While the growth looks amazing, I wonder how many just try and leave.

There were just a cumulative collection of Subreddit mods that had banned me over the years.

I made a comment on a subreddit I was banned on and they decided to ban me for life.

lemm.ee is the place to be!

Hello there and thank you for having me! So this server in Finland is hopefully water and bear prove? Just kidding :). I am sending love from Austria

Can someone help me get started

Happy to join the party! Look forward to growing the community

Hello everyone I’m new here and start to understand how it works , but one question Is there a translator as in Reddit ? Thanks

Heyo :D

Could u edit the post to teach the newcomers about community mentions ie !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com

Any chance of Alexandrite being available for lemm.ee? Best lemmy interface imho.

The censorship on reddit has gotten insane. Here's hoping lemmy continues to grow!

Is there a community for asking a question about the existence of other communities related to a specific topic?

I want to find out if anyone knows about any communities regarding a political topic, but the ask community rules state no politics.

Thank you for hosting this space. 🫶

I signed up with a different account but never recieved a verification email and was unable to login. I also could not find how to request a new verification email. I would really like to get that account activated. Does any one know how to get the verification email resent?

Thanks for all the information!!

Hello there!

Signed up awhile back, finally started using it yesterday. Thank you for all the work you all do!

Using browser and boost for lemmy

It’s really nice to see this kind of growth because it’s decreasing the overall share of the Lemmy userbase on lemmy.world and therefore increasing the stability of the network. There had been worries that lemmy.world would steadily increase its share of the userbase and become a single point of failure, but that seems increasingly unlikely.

It's all trash redditor implants who think they're opinions are absolute and make the fediverse politically, individualized, and nonsensical garbage. First time I logged in and contributing to the fediverse in about a month, and of course, I see this that makes me immediately pissy.

Yes. More people that get offended at the words "rape" and "kill" are exactly what the fediverse need. This is total pandering for the sake of members and publicity. And no one needs to worry. I'm gradually working away from this platform because unfortuantely most people here just want to virtue signal or trauma dump to either make themselves feel better or feign ignorance that they're talking to another person just so they can can feel better about their sorry lives by tearing down this person or group on the internet.