• Interstellar_1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The web app wefwef.app is actually a really great alternative to apollo for lemmy! I’m using it right now on android, and while it does feel weird with the ui differences it has gestures and the same interface and generally feels really good.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Yeah once the first hits we’re gonna see a huge spike in users. The growth right now is just from people who deleted their accounts in protest on the 12th.

      • rDrDr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I stopped “protesting” once it was obvious that reddint doesn’t care. I’ll obviously stop using the site once they cut me off though.

  • realbaconator@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Yeah I just found out about this project/the fediverse, been looking for several weeks for the best replacement to Reddit and this is by far the most promising. Also, as a self-hosting enthusiast, I’m liking this place more and more by the minute. With any luck increased visibility will continue to push activity & content. Power to the people.

    • HoagieBoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’ll take a while for the volume to trickle down to the smaller more niche communities, but I have already seen the volume increase tremendously in the large ones. Let’s enjoy the ride.

    • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also, as a self-hosting enthusiast

      Self-hosting a Lemmy instance is cheap and easy! I know someone running one off a $5/mo Linode server. You should give it a shot!

    • Zamboniman@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yup, came here to say that as well. it’s al bots. The active users graph is much more realistic.

      And I’ve been seeing some…odd looking… comments recently from users at instances known for being mostly bots. Some of these comments really look AI generated, and have a suspicious number of upvotes.

    • hschen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah theres no way lemmy instances that were struggling to scale 2 weeks ago with a few thousand users active are supporting 2.5mill suddenly

  • CoderKat@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there’s utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they’ll only use one.

      • hemmes@vlemmy.net
        1·
        1 year ago

        Look, I’ve quit Reddit because fuck spez, and now have confirmation bias that needs answering. Just…let me have this.

    • darkstar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      True, I have 9 accounts so far between instances… I don’t think I’ll make anymore I’m quite comfortable now, but yeah, I inflated the stats. Sorry…

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Huzzah!

    And now that I’m in the beta for Limbo / Liftoff, I’m loving it. The web experience was not great for me on mobile.

    Servers still seem slow though. Posting a comment is slow. Loading images is slow. But I’m not going to complain about that when this kind of explosive growth is happening. Keeping things up at all is impressive.

  • Discoslugs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Are any of these accounts bots?

    Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?

    Are they all bots?