Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump?
Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump?
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Wanted to ditch Reddit following all the nonsense around their API changes, but still wanted Reddit-esque news aggregation + discussions from somewhere.
Googling for alternatives initially led me to Beehaw, but they don't have the sufficiently granular niche communities I wanted. Searching for communities I wanted to subscribe to led me here, and after refreshing myself on how the fediverse worked I realised I should just create a login here instead. So far, so good!
Just so you're aware, you can subscribe to communities from other instances as well as from the one you're logged into.
All good - I was aware of that and had originally planned to create a login at Beehaw and subscribe from there accordingly. But I didn't create one there since their signup process is also a bit more involved; they want you to explain why you're signing up.
Fair enough, but 1) I'm mostly a lurker so probably wouldn't be able to actively contribute to their ideals and 2) I figured if most of the communities I want to sub to are available here I should probably start with my initial login here :D