Glad to have you here, bud.

French and English bilingual here, not Canadian though, so thought it'd be a good place to start my Lemmy adventure.

Same,feels like home.

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?

Yep I shredded my ancient account before deletion, no google search revenue for spez.

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.

lemmy.world also went past 1k registrations yesterday.

Someone also recently posted a graph of the user numbers over the past few months

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.

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

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.

so far so good!

if 5 users contributed $5/month, that would cover the hosting fees. does that help?

it's actually a 386 DX. haven't gotten around to upgrading it yet.