A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)
Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.
Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.
So, welcome reddit expats!
Any lemmy.world user who feels comfortable using the lemmy explorer to subscribe to communities via URL should heavily consider moving to a smaller instance and subscribing to everything they want. It'll be a much snappier experience, and will very slightly reduce lag for everyone else.
You can find instances on the lemmy explorer linked above, by server location here (just change the software to Lemmy at the top), by user count here, or just look at the official instance list.
The API hasn't shut down yet. I don't know wtf they are doing at reddit hq but many of the apps, and nsfw posts, still work completely normally with no changes.
I thought they weren't going to shut down the API, they were going to start charging for it. So 3rd party apps that are still going will start getting bills?
They were also going to block all nsfw content but it's still there.
It's mad, even when it wouldn't load I felt no need to return to Deddit. Keep up the good work all.
Number of the bean.
I doubt it’s the performance and more the lack of content. Even copy-pastas would be good at this time.
The content here feels much better than other alternatives. Squabbles is stale by the end of the day (smaller userbase) and discuit is painfully quiet. It's not perfect, but the content here actually helps me to tolerate the server growing pains
Squabbles faces another huge uphill battle since it doesn't allow NSFW content.