How come theres been an influx of users recently? Did reddit shit the bed again?
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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Yes they started banning thousands of active users for “inciting violence” if you say things like “fuck Elon musk” or “my favorite character in super Mario bros is Luigi”
Reddit recently started doubling down on far-right actions. Like making it so you can be banned for just upvoting a post that breaks the rules, or banning you for saying the name "Luigi."
Personally, I recently got permabanned for being truthful about fascists.
Can some people who are willing to post something other than American politics and Reddit bashing posts join lemmy soon, I'm sick of my entire feed being nothing but all these negative topics
I think Lemmy is a bit too complicated to attract the kind of light-hearted users that made Reddit shine. It's daunting unless you have nowhere else to go.
Big things are happening in the world right now. I know that it sucks.
More Star Trek memes!
Blocking all of the political and news communities can help
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca has a pinned post without active non political communities
I had a discussion the other day, where people were not happy with lemmy instances not handing data over to google. They argument was that we should do everything so lemmy can be found more easily, as the only goal is to "win" against reddit.
Unfortunately in that discussion people were not interested in using Lemmy and the Fediverse at large to create a positive vision of the internet. They just wanted to stick it to one corporation they don't like. I don't like reddit either, but i think we should thrive for a Fediverse that upholds decentralization, open source and non commercialization of social interactions. All the large Internet corporations want to create the opposite and have been quite successful so far.
Hi :) it's a niche community but I'm doing what I can
Right there with you, it’s going to be a long four years…
Just block the subs. Or subscribe to communities that interest you and stick to your subscribed feed.
This is my first post, on my first day here, and it feels pretty good.
It’s kind of a rush picking a username knowing most are still available.
I know! I hadn't even thought of that until I saw someone's was like "mee" and now I need to get another account. It's like how people get caught off guard when I tell them my 20 year old email is just my name with no numbers or special characters.
and the best part is that if a name is taken on one instance you can just try another!
So tasty names still available
(There always will be many good names available since every name can exist once on every instance)
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If anyones looking for chill communities to sub to, here's a fat ol list https://lemmy.world/post/16327122
I'm loving it already! And...I'm not scrolling through ads too!!
Every time I end up on Reddit the amount of ads makes me recoil. You’re free now!
Dozens+1 ! :)
Dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens... 112,744 to be inexact...
Lemmy Total Users by Day: 1,352,936 for 3/12/25.
Divided by 12, that's 112,744 and some change... probably a couple of baker's dozens in there....
Looks like ~53k monthly active users, I think that's a better stat, since it doesn't include people making new alts and abandoning their old accounts.
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Welcome friend! I've been keeping your seat warm * mini-fart *
Hey fellow redfugees!
Welcome! It's nice and comfy here, if a little less of an infinite content-hose compared to Reddit. You might need to do a little more heavy lifting yourself in terms of posting and commenting, but on the plus side - people actually read what you post, instead of being drowned by a deluge of spam and bots! And discussions are mostly friendly and civil!
And it also actively prevents doomscrolling when you see the same post multiple times.
Yes that's what I've found! There's less of it but the quality is far better, the atmosphere is far better and it's like reddit used to be years ago. I've missed all that and I'm so glad I found lemmy. ☺️
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It took every person on this platform to get us to 600. Bots I'm calling on your power.
Welcome and dont forget to tip your local server administrators. Servers are not free.
Keep it away from corporations by donating today. :)
Lemmy and Mastodon are like "PBS" social media.
"This is brought to you by people like you."
Reporting for duty.
Just be warned, those dozens are all actually one person.
It's me. I just enjoy talking to myself so much I made lemmy
Well, I didn’t expect us to have an existential crisis today, but here we are.
That's okay, we'll get past it again
Are you Drone Rights?
And blaze, and db0, and descalines, and ada and pugjesus, I'm everyone. I'm even you
Dessalines is a Drone Rights alt? Makes sense.
Obviously! We're all a little conflicted inside this brain, but we get by
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Welcome to Lemmy. Here's your Molotov, the guillotine is just down the hall. First left.
we are ~~legion~~ squad.
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