Me, who's already been here for a few weeks, trying to just load a post or make a comment right now with the influx of traffic:

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['Let me in' - a two panel image of a man in a suit standing outside a closed metal gate, and shaking it vigorously in the second panel with his head tilted back and his mouth open screaming. The second panel also has small amount of motion blur. There is text at the bottom of both images.]

LEMMY IN.

LEMMY IIIIIIIN!

^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

I'm in this picture and I'm actually ok with it.

Me, who didn't join one of the huge instances, instead hosting his own instance: "Why is everyone complaining? Lol."

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

Me trying to login in to every instance except the one where I signed up.

Now we need lemmy.in

Hopefully, the momentum of people transferring to lemmy stays. I've had conversations with other Redditors who recognized the importance of third party apps but went ahead and downloaded the official app anyway.

Let's do this thing.

Me cuz I suck with computers and couldn’t figure out how to make an account. It kept failing and one wanted me to write an essay on why I should be considered. Im a casual reddit users I didn’t want to write an essay. Finally signed up with lemmy.world and I know its slow cuz a lot of people are on it but at least it worked lol.

I am honestly curious how long it will take for lemmy to get its first million users. May we win or not. but still nice to see a chance and grow

Oh god I finally was able to log in, 2 days after I thought I failed to make an account because none of the emails went through.

I wish there was some sort of way that I could send CPU power or bandwidth, tor style, to these new decentralized platforms. I totally get that they're having growing pains, and I also get that part of the tradeoff of decentralization is "well, who pays the hosting bills then?"

I'd love to put a percentage of my bandwidth and home server (or even AWS instance) CPU resources towards running an encrypted Lemmy.world instance. I don't want to just run my own barren, empty server like what the Federated system would let me do; I don't feel like that would actually have any benefit to making a reddit-replacement since why would anyone use my instance? No, I specifically want to dedicate resources to helping the popular instances, be able to run.

Is me! Dig it so far!

I have a feeling that the user of lemmy gonna be called lemmyin (lemmy in) just like how reddit and their users are redditor

Lemmyin this train. We're leaving reddit!!!!

I had my wife sign up yesterday as a daily reddit user and average tech skills. Based on that experience, I really don't think lemmy is going to go mainstream in its current form.

I was told there would be a refuge omelet bar!

New from Reddit today. This is my first comment. Hello Lemmy!

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

I don't speak on behalf of everyone, but we prefer the term r/efugees

That was literally was me as I tried to make an account for 36 hours

This works a lot better than I thought it would lol

I imagine Lemm.ee is bursting at the seams by now

You earned my first upvote, or whatever it's called here. Bravo!

stumbles in from reddit and throws up racist memes all over the floor

How long has Lemmy actually been around? I only even heard about it because of the Reddit shit, and I had been actively looking for a replacement for almost 2 years.

I feel exposed.

This was the perfect post!!